Eric's Encores

This was the wedding cake for Debora Volberg and George Pagnata, presented to them on their first anniverary. Since they hadn't a cake for their actual wedding, I was honored to create them this in its stead. The cake was made of three tiers: Each tier was wrapped in a white fondant, then coated with a glace royale. The decoration theme was baroque scrollwork with a thickened glace roayale. The cake was topped with two cream puff swans (symbolizing eternal love) filled with Chantilly cream.

For Dr.Libby Prussin's 70'th birthday, we made a cake. First here's Libby (my step mom) and my dad.

The top cake was an 8 inch traditional white wedding cake topped with a red rose symbolizing the fact that love is atop all. The layers were 6 slices of genoise laced with rum and frangelico. Between were strawberry and raspberry jams interlayered with vanilla buttercream. The rose was formed with white fondant. The flower was glazed red and the leaves green. You can't see it clearly in the picture, but there are white piped roses all along the top border, an alternating small and large shell pattern starting down the sides with roping. There are six ropes outlining the larger shells and two for the smaller. Along the bottom edge are reverse shells with fleur de lys coming up towards the roping.

The 10 inch middle tier was a chocolate conglomerate of sour cream & espresso chocolate cake, filled alternatingly with cherry and black raspberry preserves. The buttercream was chocolate and the flavorings were Kahlua & Chambord. The entire cake was draped in a shiny melted chocolate and cream glaze, then topped with a yellow piped rose, and finally wrapped at the base with a silver ribbon.

The bottom layer (12 inches) was covered with a yellow tinted rolled fondant. The layers were yellow cake slices drizzled with Cointreau & Grand Marnier, with apricot & peach jams as well as an orange flavored buttercream. The cake was encircled with variously shaded yellow piped flowers, with one white piped rose standing alone.

The cake stand was designed and created by my father, Victor Edelstein.

Other stuff

A selection of our homemade goat cheeses.

A traditional Trorilla Espagnol

A birthday cade for a beloved Mark Mitchel

This is a tripple layer cheese cake (plain, orange, and chocolate) for Ben Gunter's parents' anniversary. Ben, for the curious sort, was my s.o. for quite a time in Florida.

Greg Presley, one of the great people in my life, is a concert pianist and teacher. For a period, I had the honor of catering the receptions and his concerts. This particular piece was a rendering of him at his piano. Yes, he's a Ken doll! The piano was a genoise covered in white and chocolate fondant with a chocolate covered gingerbread top flap (show in front) with an inscribed royal icing treble clef. Campy? Me? Never!

Fruit tarts were de rigeur in Florida

Chocolate anyone?

A chicken dish with green beans wrapped in bacon for Ben.

While Fish with a rose, for valentine's day for Ben.

This little pizza (or what's left of it) was made with our own homemade mozerella. This was Al's reward for his hard work (see cheesemaking page).