It is so fun to work with sugar. Dangerous but fun. Being burned by sugar is like pouring hot lava onto your flesh. I did not have that experience with this cake, thank goodness, but it could have easily happened. This is a delicious New York style vanilla bean cheesecake with a sour cream topping. The topper is spun sugar. It is fun to make because your imagination is your only boundary.

This cake is actually a very pale pink in color with fresh flowers in purple, pink and white colors in a long cascade winding down the entire length of the cake. The cake is a 5 tier sour cream pound cake with the traditional buter cream frosting. This was a nightmare to decorate. It was in a hot building and was in the summer. The frosting was getting way softer than I like and I was scared but we made it work. You do what you have to do to make things work out and I htink this one did.