Rude cakes @CCP Opening

For the opening of the drawing exhibition, 'Chalk it Down' at the CCP Gallery, I proposed the idea of drawing on and selling slightly subversive cupcakes with messages from a desperate housewife who expresses her anger to her husband via cake.

I thought cupcakes and rude drawings would be an interesting contrast. It took longer (beat until light and fluffy) than I thought to make the cupcakes. Also, I was overwhelmed by the amount of products available from the cake-decorating industry with its beauty pageant-like mix of bile and spectacle.

These are some of the designs I had planned for the cakes. On the night I ran out of time to decorate them all so I brought icing, letters and sprinkles and let people indulge in DIY artistic expression.

This produced such poetic gems such as, 'he's no good' and 'he's got a small willy.'