A Cake for All Senses

Special day, special gift...


An Anita cake - a gift that brings all fives senses alive.


Touch

Carrying this beautifully wrapped package, holding it delicately, was the launch into the five senses' dessert indulgence. This continued with the unwrapping, carefully maneuvering the plastic wrap not to disturb the beautiful frosting.

Smell

Once unwrapped, the smells engulfed you.

If I had the strength of a cat's nose, the fondant extracts would be the first to smell. Beyond that, you don't need a cat's nose to absorb the chocolate and butter aroma wrapping up the full cake.

Sight

While your nose is guiding you to the chocolate icing, your eyes fixate on the design on top of the cake.

An old map unwraps to show... hmmm? A road? The closest line to meeting of hearts? A river? Or is it a peninsula? The beauty of sight, to see what one's hearts desire.

Taste

It is difficult to describe something that tastes so good. An old-fashioned basic cake - most likely flour, eggs, butter, milk, vanilla, I don't know. But the taste is so special, bringing to mind cakes my mother used to make for us as we grew up.


The chocolate butter icing is thick and light, bitter and sweet, all at the same time. Delicious.

Hearing

Surprisingly enough, this cake catered to our hearing sense too. The crunching sound of the gold sugar shavings on the icing resembled water trickling down a tiny stream, or is it a light fire in a fireplace?