Wonderful cakes Julie Simon, which are so easy to confuse with the masterpieces of Dutch painting

Have you ever tried to eat a still life? You think this is not possible.

Confectioner Julie Simon is ready to prove the opposite. Her cakes are an abundance of pink carnations, lavender, various shining shades of roses, yellow tulips, bright green ferns. All this woman makes up in wonderful bouquets of sugar flowers. Her work is no longer similar to a confectionery product, but to the masterpieces of painting.

Julie Simon is a cake artist. She lives in Los Angeles and creates her fantastic visions from pastry cream, jelly mix and pastries. Although she did this just a year ago, she no longer has a hang-up from customers.

On the birthday of Kylie’s daughter, Julie baked a cake similar to the crown of a princess of the Elizabethan era. She made it from several tiers, executed in pastel shades of blue and pink, with a gilded carousel along which marzipan horses ran back and forth. It was not just a cake, but a feast that moved and lived its own life.

Masterpieces by Julie Simon are fantastic creations that bring to life classic paintings. Moreover, in the truest sense of the word. For one client, she made a cake - a picture of Gustav Klimt.

Julie says that when she starts baking, she is inspired by the paintings of Marc Chagall, known for his poetic images and an unusual combination of imagination and color.

"I consider him the most inspiring artist. Creator, able to awaken the desire in the viewer to fantasize and create.", - so the culinary speaker speaks of Chagall.

Many of her compositions - still-life-filled flowers - resemble Golden Age works of Dutch painting. Pictures of the Dutch spoke about the inconstancy of life - fading leaves, losing freshness of fruit. All this is also reflected in the pastry of the confectioner. Julie really likes that Dutch masters often came up with their own flowers, and also made bouquets of those plants that could not bloom at the same time.

"There is something incredible in creating beauty, you create something that cannot exist in the real world."- notes the cake artist.

The passion for cakes began from the moment when seven-year-old son Simon beat eggs at home to the desired consistency to make chocolate charlotte for his aunt. Later, Julie said that every time she beat eggs, she recalls how touching and funny her son did.

Critics call Julia "Jan Brueghel among the confectioners."

She understood what she should do in her life when she saw beautiful towering cakes in a pastry shop window during a trip to London in 1992. A few years later, she ordered a wedding cake, inspired by the outfit of Mary Stuart.

But as Julie herself admits, the cake did not work out. For many years, baking has been her hobby. She continued to make music, play in a group. And this is not surprising. Her mother is a Grammy Award-winning composer Lucy Simon, and her aunt is Carly Simon.

When the contract with the record company terminated, Julie took up office work and settled in Los Angeles in 2008 with her husband. But life did not go as Simon had expected. Two children, depressed from unemployment, divorce did not contribute to the creation of culinary masterpieces.

At this difficult moment, a close friend of Gillian Vin suggested creating an atelier of cakes to order. Then, in gratitude to her friend, Julie baked an incredibly beautiful birthday cake. Perhaps today he is her best creation. Buddhist garden with hummingbirds and orchids, with a real waterfall and edible Buddha statue.

Julie Simon's cakes are very expensive. The author explains it this way: "Because it is art." And there is nothing to argue. She considers her clients to be patrons. The pastry chef does not worry because hundreds of hours have been spent on creating cakes, and they are eaten very quickly.

Julie says: “I read somewhere that a museum visitor spends an average of 30 seconds viewing a painting. People spend more time enjoying my work. And then, when you eat my cake, art becomes a part of you.”

There are such clients who do not eat her cakes, but keep them as a keepsake. When the artist was asked what perfect cake she herself would like to receive for her birthday, Simon replied that she would like to get 50 cans of lychee instead of a cake. She likes to come up with luxurious fantasies for others rather than eat herself.