Ballerina-Inspired Sweets

[Helene]

PNB just posted a link to a "Half Baked: The Cake Blog" post about "Ballerina-Inspired Sweets" in a Tweet.

The examples range from elaborate to deceptively simple.

[sandik]

For some reason, I kept expecting to see a Pavlova and some sugar plums, but this is not quite so literal.

[ascballerina]

Those are the best. My mother always used to make recital cakes for me, with ballerina cats or ballet shoes (I distinctly remember her making two ballet-shoe cakes when we had a class party--a pink one for the girls, and a white one for the boys! With the flavours being strawberry and blueberry) She also loved to make chocolate moulds of ballerinas and ballet shoes--she'd paint the colours into the mould with tinted white chocolate, and then pour the rest of the chocolate in.