Hello everybody, my name is Diana Toma and I am a cake designer. For as long as I can tell I was passionate about art and everything that art includes, paintings, sculptures, drawing, music, embroidery and recently, cake decorating.
I fell in love with cake decorating when I saw on the internet a majestic cake presented at Queen Victoria's Wedding. I was deeply impressed and at the same time I knew that this is my calling, to be a cake artist.
Ever since that moment I felt a true passion towards cake decorating and cake designing. I spend lots and lots of hours designing unique cakes and I enjoy every single moment of it.
Everything starts with a cake design drawn on paper. Every element has to in perfect harmony with the other, the colors have to be in consonance with one another, and the whole piece has to be like a fairy tale with lots of details and elements, it just has to tell you a story. The story of the newlyweds, the story of the new born baby, the story behind an art piece who was inspired by a real antique artwork.
When I am truly satisfied with the design I created, I start making the real cake. Baking the cakes and making the filling, ganaching the cake and covering it with sugar paste, everything is like a dance for me, made in perfect balance. The baking part takes place after I create all the edible decorations, so that the inside of the cake is freshly baked.
When I get to the decorating part it's like time stops for me, nothing else matters in that moment, just me and my cake and my 1000% focus on that piece. And so lots and lots of hours pass by while I create intricate edible decorations for my cakes.
It's a challenge for me to make everything edible, to see every real antique object and to imagine it entirely edible, this process alone can last a few hours.
I love creating sugar flowers, made with such delicacy, petal by petal and then gently painting them to make them look like real natural flowers, I love making intricate edible lace, for which I have to have a very steady hand, a single tremble and the lace can be ruined, I love to paint on cakes with my edible powders, I love how it gives such a sophisticated and gracious look.
I just love everything about it, but what I love the most, is the way people feel when they see my artwork.
Thank you for taking time to read and to look at some of my edible art pieces.
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19th century inspired goblet, made with white chocolate. Sugar flowers and edible painting for decoration
Edible painting made with edible color pigments
The Falcon Cake made with white chocolate
Intricate white chocolate details
19th century inspired amphora. Handmade white chocolate and sugar paste details
Full view of the little prince cake
Edible handmade painting
The little prince cake
Chinoiserie inspired cake with sugar flowers
The cake is entirely hand painted with edible pigments
The Purple Fairy Tale Cake
Details of the Purple Fairy Tale Cake
The Spring Fairy Cake, decorated with sugar flowers, edible hand painting on hand piped edible lace plaquette
Sugar hand piped lace plaquette with edible hand painting
Royal Icing Cake with intricate edible hand piped lace with edible painting on top
Sugar Cherry blossom branch and sugar blackberries, decorating a beautiful wedding cake
White chocolate doves
Delicate watercolor painted cake
Crown Cake with edible hand painting on the cake board
Cake with Royal Icing decorations and edible hand painting
Hand piped delicate lace
Wedding cake decorated with handmade sugar flowers, hand piped lacework and edible hand painting
Edible hand piped details
Baptism Cake decorated with edible baroque leaves and edible jewels. Handmade sugar flowers and painting on top
