When hearing "a cake sells for 70,000 yuan", it is estimated that most people's reaction is "too expensive!" ”
But after seeing these cakes, maybe you will change your mind.
In fact, until you see Julie Simon's work, you probably can't imagine how beautiful a cake can be.
The custom cake artist from Los Angeles uses creativity and talent to make cakes into visually pleasing artworks, allowing people to be amazed before satisfying their taste buds.
Many people who see Julie's work for the first time will have the same idea: Is this really a cake that can be eaten?
Roses, carnations, tulips, orchids... Countless well-known flowers are layered and matched, or a soft fairy tale with a clear sweet taste, or a dark legend in the Gothic style.
But just when people are confused by these beautiful flowers and can't help but stretch out their hands to touch them, they will later find out that these flowers are not real!
That's right, this lifelike and delicate flower is a real "fake".
They are all made by Julie with candy and are visually realistic to the extreme, completely to the point of being fake and stunning.
And these flowers have also become the theme of Julie's custom cake.
Julie combines flowers from different flowering periods and different opening seasons to make bright colors blend and collide, harmonious and elegant, like a classicist still life painting.
Most of her works are like a lush private garden, filled with spring and brilliant summer, making people feel that the flowers are blooming and everything is bright and beautiful happening.
And on every important occasion, people are getting happiness and sweetness in unforgettable moments of life through this unique art cake.
In addition to flowers, Julie also brought paintings from her favorite artists to cakes.
She restored the portrait of the Austrian expressionist master Klimt, which not only fully reflected Klimt's brilliant and dazzling intoxicating gold, but also vividly reproduced the movements and expressions of the characters, allowing people to feel the charm of famous paintings in a new way.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt 1907
In addition, Julie also recreated Chagall's "Equestrienne" on the cake, in which the female rider of the circus sits on horseback, turns around and kisses the man behind her who cannot see his face clearly, and the picture is full of dreamy feelings that belong to Chagall.
Julie restored almost every detail, and even specially made pink and white sugar flip flowers, echoing the skirts of female riders, so that flowers and famous paintings were perfectly integrated, so that a new work of art was born.
Equestrienne, Chagall, 1931
This breathtakingly beautiful cake made Julie famous, and people called her "the most cake-making artist".
Many celebrities and celebrities also came to admire and spend a lot of money to specially ask Julie to customize the cake for herself.
Kylie Jenner, who entered the "Global Self-Made Women Rich List", invited Julie to make cakes for her palm pearl on her daughter's birthday.
According to the preferences of Kelly's daughter, Julie set the main color of the cake as princess pink, and added the little girl's favorite carousel, and also used flowers, butterflies and other elements as decoration matching, so that the whole cake is full of Rococo court gorgeousness, but also cute and childlike for children.
At the same time, Julie also became popular on the Internet.
As her fame grows and orders increase, Julie also faces an increasing workload, but she still insists on making every cake by herself.
Currently, the lowest price for cakes made by her is US$250 (about 1,700 yuan), while larger cakes cost US$10,000 (about 70,000 yuan).
Although the price is high, many people still think that it is worth the money, after all, the cake made by Julie is so beautiful, even so beautiful that people can't bear to eat it, and they can't wait to keep it in good condition forever.
Today, Julie is like an Internet celebrity among cake chefs, but she has experienced confusion, confusion and difficulties along the way like ordinary people.
Julie's parents are both chefs, and the bright, scented kitchen has made her interested in cooking food since she was a child.
But her parents couldn't bake, and the task of making desserts fell to Julie.
At the age of 7, she baked her first cake, but no one thought that this girl would become a cake artist.
Growing up, Julie has been working in the visual arts, but her work has never broken through, and she often feels self-doubt.
On a chance trip to London, she visited the famous Harris' food hall and saw the intricate lace candies that awakened her memories of cake making, which made her blood boil.
At that moment, she realized that she had found what she really wanted to do.
At that time, there was not much information about the making of fondant cakes, and Julie painstakingly found books on making sugar flowers, constantly practiced and pondered, starting from a leaf and a petal, and finally made her first work after tens of thousands of failures.
Since then, her love for artistic cake has taken root in Julie's heart and become an anchor in her heart.
She will make cakes with completely different styles according to the customer's requirements.
Some of them are like elegant and feminine ladies, some are like classical and atmospheric beauties, and some are like elves walking in the jungle... Julie not only wants to make cakes that are 100% in line with the customer's ideals, but also requires her own production to constantly surpass herself.
The quest to make cakes never stops.
Those who do not seek easy will succeed, and those who do not seek refuge will advance.
Julie has been constantly challenging herself to make bolder and more detailed designs, and she has become more imaginative in the overall look, and she has become more and more exquisite in the details.
It turns out that being able to do one thing to the extreme has its own dazzling edge.
Julie often spends hundreds of hours making each cake, and she is tireless.
In the time of dialogue with food, Julie used her own hands to turn the original ordinary cream and candy into flowers and hummingbirds, demons and angels, and she also became a magician full of magic and passion, putting elements from nature, mythology, and famous paintings into her works, originally a small cake, but can be transformed and carried thousands of things.
For Julie, making cakes is an aesthetic, which is to combine art and food, create beautiful magical moments for life, and realize dreams for countless artificial dreams.
And she will always make cakes until she is 80 years old, life is a series of moments, only love is worth the long years, so that every moment is full and wonderful.
Reprinted from the public number: Yi Extraordinary (ID: efifan)
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