Madame Gateaux created four cakes for special events I have hosted in the last two years. Each cake was creative, classic, and classy. One was a multi-layered beauty that featured a different theme on each level that traced the events in a year... of special trips featuring logos, signatures, and sculpted pieces related to writing. A unique scroll listed the names of the 17 people being honored on this occasion. It was a huge hit.
Another cake featured all of the elements from the novel To Kill a Mockingbird: the porch; the tree; marbles; pocket watch; coins; pocketknife. It was spectacular; it told a story almost better than the novel itself!
The "science" cake celebrated the many paths where astrophysics met biology. The sculpted Earth sat atop stacks of books and stars and satellites amidst the human anatomy. Simply awesome.
The cake dedicated to art and artists was, itself, a work of art. It featured replicas of famous masterpieces, art materials, and street signs leading to The Met and the Guggenheim. It was topped with an easel holding a self-portrait of one of our guests.
Tracy Celantano's sculpting skills are unlimited. Every detail I imagined was delicately and flawlessly executed in these very challenging cakes. By the way, the actual cakes were delicious. They were made of every possible combination of flavors and every one was a delight. Madame Gateaux takes "custom" cakes to infinity and beyond. Creative, classic, and classy.