300 is a Very Big Number

I love fashion. I love the fact that you can put art on your body and walk around in it. Because of this love I watch fashion television shows, read fashion magazines, and spend a little too long deciding on what to wear when I get dressed in the morning.

While watching one tv show about fashion, "Project Runway Canada", I watched a fashion designer create dresses with charm, humor, and skill. I was so impressed with Jessica Biffi. Several of her creations inspired me to bring them to life through cake. We live in a pretty amazing world in which I had to but ask someone I knew on Twitter for an introduction and I was set to meet Jessica!

Through a common love of art, fashion, and cake we discussed the fusion of cake and fashion for her Spring/Summer 2010 collection presentation at LG Fashion Week in Toronto. I jumped at the chance to offer sponsorship, through cake, for her show!

And the rest was history!

Jessica was wonderful in allowing me full artistic control of the cakes. I created 300 mini cakes based on her collection titled "Digital Graffiti". I chose the shape of a cube to convey the feeling of a digital universe. I then airbrushed each cake with graffiti in the colours of Jessica's collection. She has explained that some of her inspiration for the line came from a graffiti artist called Fafi so I wanted to really showcase the graffiti element.

I had never done 300 mini cakes before. 300 is a very big number. Very big. I had a lot of help to get them all done and even with the help I felt like I could hardly move or think by the time they were all done. But man, they were a thing of beauty.

This is what 300 mini cake toppers looks like:



This is what 300 squares of fondant looks like:



This is what 300 mini cakes in a refrigerator looks like:



But this makes all that work worthwhile:



Thank you, Jessica, for inviting me to be a part of Fashion Week and congratulations on your wonderful SS10 collection!

Thanks, also, to The Caketress, Lori Hutchinson, for coming by and helping to cover many minis and to my dear friend and assistant, Sam Leeson, for more help than I can list here! Also a big thanks to Bonnie Junyk, owner of The Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory in Square One, Mississauga, for all her help and the donation of 300 white chocolate pieces for the mini toppers!