Feel good story of the day…
Cause Cupcakes make people smile!
Flour, frosting and fondant are the ingredients artist and baker Zilly Rosen will use to create portraits of US presidents Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama, dpa reported.
Washington’s National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are co-hosting their fourth annual Presidential Family Fun Day on Saturday.
The centrepiece of the event will be Rosen’s portraits, using 5,000 cupcakes arranged to look from above like Lincoln (1861-65), remembered as the Great Emancipator, and Obama, who took office last month as the first African-American president.
“This presidential portrait is not only distinguished but delicious,” the National Portrait Gallery touted.
Unlike the paintings in the galleries of the two museums, the cupcake portraits will have a very short shelf life. After staying on display for the afternoon, the artwork will be deconstructed by the children in attendance.
The free, family-oriented event, an observance ahead of Monday’s Presidents’ Day, will also include fife-and-drum music, singing, storytelling and historical impersonators including Lincoln and other presidents.
Thursday was the 200th birthday of Lincoln, who ordered the emancipation of slaves in 1863 and was assassinated in April 1865, just days after achieving victory in the American Civil War.
The cupcake artwork will be titled A New Birth of Freedom, borrowing a phrase from one of Lincoln’s most famous speeches.
This is a very ambious project. I heard her at the end say she’s never going to do 5000 cupcakes again. She said maybe 1500 but not 5000. This took them nearly all day to do and she even messed up on one part and had to redo it. She’s slept maybe 15 hours in the last week and said it’s been so bad she’s been dreaming about cupcakes. LOL!
Good job though!
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Hi! Zilly here! I would totally do another 6,000 cupcake portrait, or larger! What I said was I would only do one this size once a year. And after this, a “smaller” size of 1,500 would feel like a piece of cake!