My cakes are not too sweet. I believe flavor should be celebrated--72% chocolate, Meyer lemons, cream cheese, vanilla beans... not sugar, so I don't use it where it's not necessary. Let the raspberries speak for themselves.
I'm fascinated by materials curled by the effect of time, boasting the articulation of use and wear from life past. Its beauty is so rich. I recreate this look of aging afresh, in food ironically, abusing my decorative sugar surfaces with a delicate hand, pushing the sugar's potential for that richness beyond what I've previously known or seen, forging textures that play with light and shadow. Each cake shows me something new.