Source: Belle the magazine

Source: Belle The Magazine

“Baroque influence is everywhere,” explains Alexandria. “Early on as a painter and sculptor, I drew most of my inspiration from the 18th Century bourgeois and the alluring concept of beauty and the sublime. As I began to shift my focus from fine arts to cakes, I fell in love with the frivolousness and fleeting beauty of cakes. The Rococo era perfectly encapsulated the ideas I was trying to portray.”

Salted caramel and heart-shaped macarons, boudoir-blue meringues, dark Valrhona chocolate bars flavored with pink sea salt, white sesame and crystallized ginger are just some of the incredible confections they offer.

Alexandria’s art takes the form of delicately sculpted, ornate cakes with her signature hand-modeled shapes like birds, Louis XIV and Venetian Moretto Mask figurines. Their cakes would not be complete without gilded flowers, gold and silver flourishes, (edible) Faberge eggs and other rich design elements that seem to explode off their pieces.

Cake Opera Co. also offers divine dessert tables called Operettas, in themes like Enchanted Forest, Black & White, Bohemian Chic and Ethereal White that can be filled with your choice of chocolate tablets, marshmallows, meringues, butter cookies, nougats and of course, cupcakes.

For Jessica, the pastry chef, she loves the moment when her clients take their first bite at a consultation. She’s a firm believer that tradition is more important than trend. Taste above all else!

She adores classic combinations like dark chocolate and fresh raspberries, honey and nougat, and black currant and lavender. She prefers to forgo the flavors of the moment.

She also confides that she is totally in love with their Red Velvet Cake with White Chocolate and Cream Cheese Buttercream and, if she could, she would eat it every day. Their most popular flavor for wedding cakes is the Bourbon Vanilla Princess Cake with Fresh Lemon Buttercream and Blueberries, described as slightly tart, textured and refreshing. Their Banana Cake with Salted Caramel Ganache and Milk Chocolate Buttercream is also a major hit among their loyal clientele.

Newlyweds Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, who tied the knot in December 2010, had their towering Versailles-themed, white and gold embellished red velvet wedding cake created by Cake Opera Co. The lucky couple was depicted in sculpted sugar on the top of their cake, complete with period powdered wigs and all.

They are proud of the fact that they attract a sophisticated clientele that really wants something unique, something special created just for them; in essence, a bespoke cake. In the five years they’ve been a team they’ve never had a single client ask them to copy a cake from a photograph. Their customers are encouraged to dream and discuss freely what they see ideally in a cake.