dinner-party showpiece · 2024
A pale periwinkle tier built for a dinner of twelve — sized to the table, scored into twelve before it arrived.
A birthday dinner for twelve where the host wanted everyone served at once, no kitchen interlude. We built to the headcount: one wide tier, lightly scored on top into twelve even wedges so the first cut told you where the rest went.
A broad single tier in a pale periwinkle buttercream, the top scored in a faint twelve-spoke pattern that reads as decoration until you pick up the knife. Built shallow and even so every slice is the same generous size.
Made here in chocolate & crème fraîche. Also lands well as lemon & elderflower for a lighter close to a long dinner.
Ordered for seated dinners with a fixed headcount — birthdays, engagement suppers, any table where everyone should be eating the same thing at the same moment.
up close
Twelve of us, twelve slices, nobody got the sad small one. I have hosted long enough to know that is a small miracle.
The scored lines meant my dad couldn’t over-serve himself "by accident." He noticed. He was furious. He had two anyway.