r/cakedecorating • u/rarerollingobject • Jul 28 '26
Birthday Cakes Vegetable garden cake
A birthday cake for a colleague - mini savoy cabbages, wombok, pea pods, carrots, beetroots, cauliflowers, one lonely leek (lost interest after one) and yes, eggplants - all of which I made out of sugarpaste.
The cake itself is vanilla cake with Buddha’s hand syrup that I bought from the amazing L'Agrumiste citrus specialist shop in Paris (see last pic for a look at this exquisite store), lemon curd, crushed cashew and smoked salt praline, and chopped up stroopwafels.
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u/Competitive-Type1505 Jul 28 '26
That’s a first. Your work is meticulous, detailed and original. 👍
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u/labellementeuse Jul 29 '26
For your COLLEAGUE? amazing. The cabbages! The pea pods! The cauliflower! Mindblowingly beautiful
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u/TheEsotericCarrot Jul 29 '26
So whimsical, I love it! Your colleague better be nice to you forever now.
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u/saturnradio Jul 29 '26
This is so cute and elegant, it's also original! I've never seen something like this before
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u/TheLadyPatricia Jul 29 '26
WOWZA…this is a cake for a colleague? This is an absolute showstopper…I am completely blown away! I tip my hat to you…you certainly have some mad skills! 😍🔥🤯🫶
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u/rosewood_and_ginger Jul 29 '26
Omg how beautiful is that?! Love the white background - makes the veggies look nice and crisp.
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u/orangerootbeer Jul 29 '26
I’m in love with your decor here! How long did it take to make the sugarpaste veggies?
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u/WheresTheSeamRipper Jul 29 '26
Wow, totally amazing cake and decorations! Flavors also sound out of this world, OP!
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u/stoicsticks Jul 29 '26
Gorgeous! Before I read your caption explaining what flavour of cake it was, I was guessing it was going to be carrot or zucchini cake. What you made sounds better.
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u/necessaryfarts Jul 29 '26
I am blown away, friend. So much care and talent went into this. Well done, you!
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u/rkb145 Jul 29 '26
I would pay good money for this; it’s a milestone birthday for my dad next year and he loves his greenhouses and vegetable patches! He grows sunflowers too 🌻.
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u/negative-sid-nancy Jul 29 '26
So beautiful and unique! This would be amazing garden wedding/party type cake! I hope your coworker loves it!!!
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u/SweetP916 Jul 29 '26
Wow!!!!! Those veggies look amazing!!! Did you have molds for them??? The cauliflower and lettuce/cabbage are insane!!!! ❤️
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u/rarerollingobject Jul 29 '26
I made my own molds out of silicone putty - just for the surface of the cauliflower and I made a leaf veiner by first making a silicone putty mold of a real cabbage leaf and then making an inverse mold out of that mold to get the double sided effect when you press sugarpaste between the two molds
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u/Hazelnut_waffles626 Jul 29 '26
The little vegetables would have turned out amazing with marzipan, I forgot the name of the desert
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u/AliceTawhai Jul 29 '26
Very cool but that would fuck with my mind because the veges would trick it into expecting a savoury taste. It’d make things interesting
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u/deliberatewellbeing Jul 29 '26
soooo professional looking! the level of detail you put into this cake is astounding… the super smooth sides, the sharp 90 deg edges, the gum paste miniatures, the sophisticated filling flavors. it’s a tour de force for the senses…. smell, sight, taste, texture. very well executed!!!
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u/Dependent-Aside-9750 Jul 28 '26
This is so good, I checked your profile to see if you were a bot! Very well done!
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u/DonkeyAndWhale Jul 29 '26
Absolutely fantastic! That said - I don't think I could eat the vegetables 😂. Too much discrepancy between the looks and taste, they're too realistic, I'm not sure my brains could handle it.
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u/CJ_Thompson Jul 29 '26
Mad cake skills!!!!
That is just beautiful. The fondant vegetables are amazing.
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u/YourPlot Jul 29 '26
Stunning. I will point out that the peas looks like genitalia. Perhaps two pea pods next time. The detail work, though, is stunning.
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u/PreferenceOld6364 Jul 29 '26
Absolutely incredible and breathtaking!!!! The little tiny veggies are chef's kiss
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u/plain_yogurt9378 Jul 30 '26
It’s beautiful! How is your frosting so damn smooth? I’ve tried 8 different buttercream and cream cheese recipes and every. single. time. My frosting is never completely smooth.
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Aug 01 '26
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u/rarerollingobject Aug 03 '26
Tricky to describe; lemon and mandarin with a little grapefruit bitterness? Yuzu in there somewhere too
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u/SnooGrapes9918 Aug 01 '26
I’d shed a few tears if a colleague presented something so lovely. It’s stunning!! Insert “cutting onions” joke somewhere, coordinating with the theme. 🧅🥬🍆🥕🍰
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u/SThomas215 Aug 01 '26
This is probably the cutest darn cake I’ve ever seen! I would LOVE to have a cake, or even the decorations with piping instructions to have a cake made for my Dad’s next birthday. He’ll be 79 and has a garden the size of 2 country subdivision lots. He’s a master gardener, to say the least, as YOU are a master cake decorator—Bravo!
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u/Substantial-Use-7018 Aug 02 '26
This is just beautiful and soo lifelike! How long did this take you?
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u/Tall-Total-6077 Aug 02 '26
Man!! I'm imagining this tastes savory like veggie dip and cream cheese layered between different types of breads
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u/uksiddy Jul 28 '26
This is a BIRTHDAY cake?! Insane. It’s beautiful!