Michelle Wibowo

Michelle Wibowo

The Baby Cake

Dough, Food Coloring, Icing, Chocolate, Sugar

Base 20" square

2006

Michelle was born 1978 in Indonesia. She graduated from National Bakery School and was first employed as a cake decorator in London. In 2008, she was awarded a gold and silver metal for her creations in the International Exhibition of Culinary Art in Germany. After she was discovered, she began getting multiple commissions from celebrities to make them cakes. She just recently made a cake for the royal wedding (a bust of the royal couple).  She makes sugar sculptures and cake sculptures. In 2002-2005, she improved her skills by working in many bakeries around London producing over 2000 sugar sculptures. She entered many contests and was awarded the gold medal for many of her entries. In 2010, she was a of member of the Experimental Food Society and worked with other skilled British food artists and culinary experts.

Artist's Statement:  Michelle Wibowo has proven herself through her art.  She has won countless awards for her lifelike cakes. She uses cake and sugar as her mediums for her art. She uses little picks that you would use to sculpt clay but she uses them for her cake details. She is very skillful at her craft and obviously loves what she does.  Her style is realism but she expresses it through cakes!

The Baby Cake-

This sugar/cake sculpture was made for a cake competition in 2006. It was the exact size of a newborn and is made entirely out of dough, sugar, chocolate, and food coloring. It first started out as a regular square chocolate cake that was carved to resemble the start of a box human. The body is then pasted with a honey-like substance for the colored dough to be placed so it will stick. It is layered and layered with the sweet dough and is then sculpted with small tools. Once all the details of the eyes and mouth and nose are finished they are painted with food coloring to have blush, eye color, hair color, and even little finger nails. It is then wrapped with the same sculpting colored dough to form the baby blankets and then it is completed. This creation was eaten.

This cake sculpture is related to our theme because it was made out of food. It was edible and was a masterpiece that you could eat once you finished it. Why I chose this piece is because it is jaw dropping to believe that this entire thing is a cake. It looks so realistic that at first I thought it was a real baby. You could also eat it though it feels a bit morbid and would be a shame to destroy such an amazing piece of art. I couldn't pass this artist up because she is just too skilled to not be mentioned.

http://www.michellesugarart.co.uk/cakes/index.php