Dessert connoisseur and extraordinaire, Amna Tauqeer known for her delicious works of art, her too-pretty-to-eat cakes, brownies and other delectable desserts shares with us some of her impressive dessert spread settings for different events!
1. The top of the list has to be the pure chocolate installations that I did for Magnum as part of their Magnum chocolate party in 2015. This was a challenge and then some! The weather couldn’t have been more horrid and consequently, the chocolate installations, more than a 1000 pure chocolate giveaways and dessert spread for over 1000 people proved to be a gargantuan task!
2. The chocolate installation for the second magnum chocolate party was a tribute to the surrealistic moment. Team Raka and I had a fabulous time conceptualising the installations. The task of translating our vision into chocolate was challenging, to say the least and hadn’t been done in Pakistan before that. Quite a few sleepless nights and about 80 kilogrammes of the finest Belgian chocolate later, the installations received huge accolades from every forum!
3. Having done countless dessert spreads, I came up with the idea of a dessert wall instead of a regular dessert table. The wall was the focal point of the baby shower and ended up being used as a photo backdrop as the party progressed!
4. “Striking and fun” — this was the brief given by the client for this dessert spread. The wheels for the spread were sourced from a small town near Hyderabad and lugged to Karachi on the day of the event!
5. Having worked on quite a few fashion shoots, this set for a designer’s shoot has to be my absolute favourite. The theme was ‘Sugar Rush’ and the palette was pastels. Half of the candy in the shoot was our in-house creation and the rest was flown in from abroad. The place did end up looking like a whimsical candy shop and I couldn’t have been happier with the final result.
6. What makes this cake so special is the fact that we had about 24 hours to create this giant masterpiece that featured hand moulded flowers, edible lace and embossing. It was a gigantic 80 pound cake and stood 5 feet tall!
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