The Sentinel...Garden show will be a cake walk for local bakery

Read the article about our Boston Flower Show Cake from The Sentinel click HERE http://www.wickedlocal.com/rochester/news/business/x1499087363/Garden-show-will-be-a-cake-walk-for-local-bakery




The Artisan Kitchen to exhibit at 2010 Boston Flower & Garden Show
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Courtesy of Gretchen Grundstrom.Cake artist Jody Church of The Artisan Kitchen in Rochester proudly displays her handiwork at the 2010 Boston Flower & Garden Show “Garden of Cakes” exhibit. After the show, the cake will be displayed at the 265 Walnut Plain Road bake shop.
Courtesy of Gretchen Grundstrom.A close up of the top tier of a cake on display at the 2010 Boston Flower & Garden Show “Garden of Cakes” exhibit
Courtesy of Gretchen Grundstrom.A cakes entered in the 2010 Boston Flower & Garden Show in Boston by The Artisan Kitchen in Rochester.
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.By Anonymous
Gatehouse News Service
Posted Mar 25, 2010 @ 12:35 PM
ROCHESTER — The Artisan Kitchen will participate in the “Garden of Cakes” exhibit as part of the 2010 Boston Flower & Garden Show at The Seaport World Trade Center.

The “Garden of Cakes” features 12 cake designers chosen from around New England with The Artisan Kitchen showcasing a show-stopping, hand painted four-tiered cake from March 24 to March 28.

Pastry chef Meredith Ciaburri and cake artist Jody Church collaborated to complete the design, which features a garden scene of New England spring blooms, and three dimensional sugar garden accessories, including a pail, boot and garden box with tiny sugar blooms.
The cake will also be on display in Artisan Kitchen’s shop after the completion of the Boston Flower & Garden Show. The Artisan’s Kitchen is located at 265 Walnut Plain Road in Rochester. Shop hours are Wednesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

For more information, go online to: www.theartisankitchen.com





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The Artisan Kitchen's Cake @ Garden of Cakes, Boston Flower Show 2010

Our cake made it to the Boston Flower Show at the Seaport World Trade Center today. Although the rain caused an two and a half hour traffic jam, our cake is safely on display along with 11 other cake designers from around New England.

We must have gone through 40 different design ideas from birds and a nest to branches with small blossoms to an applique design and even a hand painted woodgrain "faux-bois" design. But in the end Jody worked her magic with a classic New England Spring Garden Theme, it was the Garden of Cakes! With all tolled over 20 hours of love, handpainting and sculpting of our completely edible garden adornments on the top of the cake was put into this design. Thank goodness the rain didn't stop us from getting to Boston!


Here is Jody our oh-so-talented artist with our cake in Boston:



A full view of our four tiered garden and a close up of the hand painted garden scene....and finally our Garden Cake Topper: tiny sugar adornments from a garden in bloom: a flower box, a wellie boot and even a trowel and bucket.....









We chose this particular design because we are a small bakery set in the pine trees and stonewalls of the woodland and country setting of the South Coast of Massachusetts, we are lucky to open our windows and hear the birds and look at our beautiful gardens on the property and our cake design reflects that!

A few other cake designers asked if the design was airbrushed, and absolutely not, this is handpainted in food coloring with a "OOO" and "00" brush!

The Artisan Kitchen @ Garden of Cakes, Boston Flower Show 2010

We are so excited to be showing our design at the Flower Show this year in Boston. I'm not quite sure what the design will bring, but I promise that it will be something not to be missed.

The Boston Flower & Garden Show
Wednesday, March 24 to Sunday March 28, 2010
Seaport World Trade Center
Boston, MA 02210



Here is a little bit about the cake display at the Boston Flower Show from the Massachusetts Horticultural Society:
A new feature - The Garden of Cakes - will offer yet another way to appreciate flowers, as adornment on dramatic and romantic creations by some of the region's top professional cake artists. See the latest designs from well-established Boston bakeries as well as the work of smaller, more boutique-oriented shops on the leading edge of cake design.

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Victory Garden Cake

We created this classic vegetable garden themed buttercream cake for a 50th birthday. Complete with sugarpaste eggplant, split rail fence, cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, a little cake and sugar "dirt", shovel spade, and wheel barrow, this garden was complete!

The "50" plaque brought in the accent colors of charcoal and metallic gold.




We consider this type of decor to be "flat art" and is created by hand and takes many hours of sculpting by our two talented artists!

The cake flavor included alternating layers of chocolate and vanilla with oreos and cream filling and was delivered to a home in Acushnet, Massachusetts.