The "My Dream" experience includes
- Phone consultation with you in advance to determine what your child’s cake flavor choices would be, along with your price range and specifications, so expectations are set in order to guide the design when Zoё meets with your child
- 30-minute in-person consultation for your child and accompanying adult - Zoё will happily answer all of your child’s questions, share cake secrets, and help them in the creation of their dream design
- Establishment of a “special signature element” on the cake, which will be proof that your child designed their very own cake
- 2 full-size tasting cupcakes per person to enjoy while we chat (in flavors preselected by you)
- Your child will be able to decorate their own personal cupcakes with sprinkles, frosting, etc.
- Magically color-changing tea or lemonade to accompany the cupcakes
- Keepsake paperwork completed by your child, including their own illustration(s), choices, and important details
- Keepsake “Official Cake Designer” certificate with seal and ribbon
- Follow-up email(s) with their final cake design with hand-drawn image(s) and up to one post-consultation design change made by your child (additional changes can be added for supplemental cost)
- Thank-you video created specifically for your child in which Zoё presents the final cake design
- Photographs welcome
- $50 credit toward the order of your child’s cake creation
Supplemental options:
- additional child, up to 3 additional children (however, in order to make this time as special and personal as possible for your child, we recommend making this a private experience without siblings)
- additional adult
- child’s apron and matching chef’s hat with the Sugar Fairy Creations logo (choice of colors)
- box of six additional decorated cupcakes in your preselected flavors for the family to try at home
- additional followup emailed design change with new hand-drawn design image(s)
- custom book with high-resolution images of all your child’s keepsake paperwork, Zoё’s hand-drawn designs, photos of the entire cake-making process, photos of your child’s consultation experience, and photos of the completed cake, including small details
This cake contains a real, electrically-lit doll's house chandelier and furniture.
A Creation Story
This cake was for a 13th birthday - the cusp of "little kid" and "teenager" - and the child was appropriately torn between those two worlds. She loved the fun, playful cakes, but she also had her heart set on "a purple geode cake with gray fondant - please be sure that it's gray. And definitely a '13' on top." I thought it would make the design a little more special to make the geode into an illusion cake by turning the rock's fissure into a gravity-defying cave. Armed with those instructions, I started to draw.
As she looked at my sketch of her emerging concept, she said, "the cave looks kind of like a mouth. The stalactites and stalagmites could be teeth!" I watched her face change in excitement when her special creation crystalized (geode pun) in her mind. She suddenly exclaimed, "it needs an eye! It should have an eye on the side that makes it look like a roaring stone monster, like in fantasy books." With that pronouncement, the design was born.
From there, we had further consultation about whether she wanted silver or gold metallic details, what color the eye should be, and once the prototypes were made, she chose between circular and vertical-slit pupils. To my knowledge, I'm the only cake artist to have made this eye design with a vertical slit; I figured that out by experimenting with a popular technique for round pupils that required me to hand-mold molten isomalt - there were several finger burns in the process! In case you're wondering, yes, all the pieces adhere to my "everything visible should be edible" motto. The eye, like the crystal teeth and bespoke crystal "tiara", is made of butterscotch-flavored candy (isomalt tastes like sugar, but has a lower glycemic index that won't spike insulin or rot teeth - parent win!). It's basically a large lollipop without a stick.
