Ricki Arno's Edible Art

Before she began making her mixed-media SoulScapes, artist Ricki Arno rendered sugar figurines for soul mates under the name of Rosie's Creations, Inc.

Beginning with techniques she learned from a basic cake decorating course, Ricki developed a method for fashioning hand-sculpted figurines of wedding couples from sugar, gum paste, and pastillage (a kind of candy clay). Working from photographs, she was able to make the confectionary art look like French porcelain portraits of the bride and groom.

Most of the toppers were traditional bride-and-groom affairs, but she also made untraditional decorations, including cameos, family pets, and even a couple dressed in Japanese garb seated at a low table next to a shoji screen. She hand-painted all the details, mixing vodka (instead of water) with the food coloring to prevent the color from spreading.

"The details alone took four months to create," for each cake, Ricki says.

Clients eventually began to ask for separate cakes to be cut and eaten, and a "show" cake to be saved for posterity.

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