Anna Samuel
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Anna Samuel gifted her a father-in-law a potted succulent on his birthday. He saved it on a shelf along with his assortment of cacti.
“When it was time to chop the birthday cake, I introduced it to the desk. That’s when he realised it was a cake!” says Anna.
The architect-turned-baker’s Anna Bakes had made a reputation for customised edible artwork. She started crafting hyper actuality muffins in the course of the lockdown when it turned the trend throughout social media. Folks went on overdrive, chopping it into clothes, tables, flowers, make-up articles and so forth to disclose muffins in several flavours.
Anna Samuel in Thiruvananthapuram makes hyper actuality cake like this customised kappa-meen curry cake.
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Welcome to the age of hyper actuality muffins when something actually may be given a cake and cream makeover. In Thiruvananthapuram, Anna started baking these artisanal muffins in the course of the lockdown when individuals have been busy discovering other ways to maintain themselves occupied. It was round that point when Anna acquired a request for a kappa-meen cake (tapioca and fish curry cake).
“It was a problem and I loved baking the cake and giving it the end of kappa and meen curry. I discovered it extra fascinating than making muffins that resemble cartoon characters,” says Anna.
With using fondant, edible gum and meals colouring, Anna tried to make it as actual as doable and the client beloved this creamy and candy kappa-meen curry concoction.
Orders got here in from mates for muffins that resembled puttu-kadala and banana, Kerala porotta and meat roast and so forth.
Hyper actuality muffins made by Anna Samuel within the type of puttu and kadala.
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“I loved crafting muffins that resembled meals. The cake is made within the flavour that the client needs. However the garnishing can be my alternative. For the kadala (channa), I used hazelnuts with chocolate masking whereas the gravy was colored strawberry protect. All the pieces must be handmade and it takes time to get the perfection I attempt to obtain in my muffins,” says Anna.
A cake within the form of a dragon fruit made by Anna Samuel.
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One of many muffins that stays recent in her reminiscence is a cake within the form of a dragonfruit that she made for a good friend’s mother, who was very keen on the fruit. When her daughter returned from faculty, she tried to take the dragonfruit. She was astonished when her hand went in and she or he discovered it was a cake!
A hyper actuality cake made by Anna Samuel in Thiruvananthapuram within the type of a rooster biryani.
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“That was actually particular! Such muffins devour time and has to carried out fastidiously. As an illustration, every grain of the biryani needed to be formed individually, given the correct shade of color and so forth… The porotta, as an example, is product of rice paper masking. It’s by means of trial and error that I make it. However, for me, it’s a work that I get pleasure from,” says Anna.
Hyper actuality muffins made by Anna Samuel in Thiruvananthapuram.
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As soon as, she accepts an order, she plans easy methods to craft it, what supplies to make use of and so forth earlier than happening to make the cake. Since hyper actuality muffins want planning and persistence, Anna solely accepts orders that give her ample time to craft her edible wonders.
“Each merchandise within the muffins I make are edible. That’s the reason I’ve to plan every thing in my head earlier than the precise work begins,” says Anna.
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Revealed – October 22, 2024 03:19 pm IST
