Peranakan Kebaya with edible embroidery motifs for EC50

It was such an honour to create this beautiful cake for Elizabeth's 50th birthday celebration.
The birthday girl is a true blue Peranakan.  She liked my Elegant White Cheongsum from my previous works .  
With that concept as a seeding idea, we evolved it to a Peranakan Kebaya with traditional elements such as the floral embroidery, bead and bold colours.  


For the colour theme, I worked along with the pictures provided by Elizabeth with pink and turquoise  colours from the Peranakan designed tile and jar.

This is my interpretation of the inspiration!

 

I try to incorporate peony in the edible embroidered motifs with combination of cutwork, beads and laces.  I really loved how the sugar embroidered motifs along the bottom edge of Kebaya turned out.

 

The Peranakan Kebaya is usually secured at the front by a set of three interlinked brooches know as a Kerongsang.  I crafted the brooches with fondant and painted with edible antique gold with some sugar pearl accent.  A handcrafted sugar peony was also added to this ensemble.

 

 

Elizabeth told me via Whatsapp message the day after the celebrations that "this beautiful cake made my day extra special" and that really made my day!!!

 

Cake flavour was moist chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and Varlhorna crunchy pearls.