I am do not know why, however this gorgeous Paris cafe jogs my memory of a marriage cake! How about you? Maybe it is the ornamental mouldings, like white fondant icing pressed onto the pastel-tinted floor.
My classic is exhibiting, as I am not speaking about bare truffles or smashcakes. No, I am reminiscing concerning the tiered and structured marriage ceremony truffles that considered one of my lovely aunts used to make for all the household and associates in years passed by: a firm-yet-pliable royal icing fastidiously molded (after preparatory layers of (1) warmed jam and (2) marzipan) onto a standard fruit cake. Do you bear in mind these? And the slices in little rustling paper cake luggage that the marriage visitors could be given to take dwelling, and if you happen to slept with it beneath your pillow, you’d dream of the particular person you’d marry? I might like to see how a slice of bare marriage ceremony cake maintain as much as that. The smashcake would look … properly, nonetheless like a smashcake. Both method, your pillows won’t ever be the identical.
Again to as we speak’s illustration, the place the resident cafe cats (which can or will not be a figment of my creativeness) are very a lot at dwelling, and ready so that you can be part of them. The ebook on the desk would possibly properly be by Hemingway, its proprietor off looking for the following a part of Paris’s moveable feast. And on that notice …
Comfortable Francophile Friday to you! (You possibly can order effective artwork prints of this magnificence Right here.)