Designed by Fiona Cairns, one of the country's leading cake designers, it used the technical demanding Joseph Lambeth technique to create 900 individually iced flowers and 17 varieties of leaf in cream and icing.
After sending incredible flower arrangements on a wild ride to the edges of space last year, artist Azuma Makota is anchoring his works on Earth in giant blocks of ice, to be exact for his latest series, Iced Flowers.
Also by Makota, Iced Flowers is a series of sculptures designed so that viewers can observe "the changing life of flowers that are locked in ice," according to the artist.
The standout from quite a long lunch was a dish called khao chae: grains of rice in iced water with flower petals, perfumed with candle smoke.
Visitors, there to preview Versace's 2007 cruise collection, were offered sparkling water and caviar; vases of tulips and peonies graced low tables, and boxes of sugar cookies, iced to resemble the flowers, had been trussed with neat silk bows.
Seek succor at the whimsical Cupcake Café, 545 Ninth Avenue, (212) 465-1530, filled with fairy lights, hunched laptop gazers and the owner Ann Warren's cupcakes ($2.50 for small, $3.50 for large), iced with dazzling buttercream flowers that won't give your teeth a sugar ache.
Herbal iced tea cocktail with edible flowers.
Herbs and flowers suitable for iced tea include: Peppermint, chamomile, spearmint, lavender, wintergreen, lemon balm, dandelion flowers, angelica, elderflower blossoms, geranium/pelargonium leaves, lemon verbena, licorice, nettle, parsley, anise, caraway, oregano, chicory, hibiscus, ginseng, jasmine flowers, marigold flowers, rose petals, sage, etc.
Now, the bar of the Four Seasons George V in Paris gives guests a choice of iced teas with fruit- or flower-flavored syrups.
Make iced coffee using ice cube trays.
Make the batter for the fried courgette flowers by slowly adding the iced water to the tempura flour in a large bowl.
