sculptural piece · 2024
A cake built like folded paper — hard creases, flat planes, and a single fault line you’re meant to find.
A design studio’s anniversary wanted dessert that matched the invitations: sharp, architectural, a little severe. We gave them a two-tier in matte bone white with creased corners and one deliberate diagonal running through both tiers, as if the whole thing had been scored and bent.
Buttercream chilled hard and worked with a metal scraper to keep the planes truly flat and the edges genuinely sharp — no fondant, which always rounds a corner off. The fold is structural rather than piped: two angled faces meeting at a ridge, then sanded smooth.
Built here in lemon & elderflower, for something bright inside something austere. Also good as chocolate & crème fraîche if the inside should feel as serious as the outside.
Ordered for design and architecture studios, gallery nights, and the rare birthday for someone who keeps their knives on a magnet.
up close
Our creative director refused to cut it for forty minutes. Said it was "resolved." We let him have the moment, then we ate it.
It tasted like it had a point of view, which is a strange thing to say about lemon cake, but here we are.