Toronto-based Lesia, a nine-year veteran of pastry and cake making has caused a real splash with her non-traditional dessert designs. This colour-oriented lady loves that wedding cakes are no longer limited to white designs.  Whatever theme, location, flowers, dress and interests Lesia has to go on, she’ll design a unique finale to any wedding day that perfectly amalgamates each design aspect of your day.  She loves the challenge of fitting cakes for everyone, from couples with a strong sense of cake type or look to cake-phobics, those unable to visualize an appropriate topper, shall we say, to their wedding.

Lesia’s involvement in food, especially dessert, was inevitable.  As a girl, she spent hours in the diners and eateries owned by her family, just watching.  She has always been greatly inspired by her Ukrainian cousins who were born making melt-in-your-mouth, multi-layer European pastry. While her work discipline stems from her background in music and dance, Lesia is visually inspired by the everyday sights of her daughter’s toys, unique buildings and the textures in nature.  She has attended classes on a range of subjects from baking to chocolate making in Toronto, New York and Maryland.  It seems this varied background has enabled Lesia to portray her own eclectic style as well as the meaning of every event through each unique dessert.  

For The Wedding Co.’s June event, The mini Wedding Show, Lesia designed a wedding cake inspired by the fresh colours and tastes of spring.  Her enduring love of citrus and chocolate led to a cake called Green Glass and Lemon Grass, a dark chocolate cake combined with the zest of lime.  One of Lesia’s defining elements stylistically is her ability to hint at the flavour within by the design and colour scheme of the cake’s exterior. The green ‘glass’ at the top of the cake added a statuesque element and its crystalline look suggested the sparkle of flavour inside.  To complete the cake, she used embossing mats to create a textile-like finish to channel the elegant Art Moderne style of the Carlu, where the event was held.  To sample the cake, yet leave it intact, Lesia made mini cupcakes complimentary to its design and flavour.  Each was adorned with green flowers to hint at the lime curd she had hidden inside the devil’s food cake for that spark of citrus flavour.

If you haven’t already discovered her, we suggest you book an appointment and head on over to Lesia’s for an exploration in taste and visual concepts.  Lest we forget, another calling card is her regular combination of surprising flavours like: cardamom, vanilla and white chocolate, orange and cayenne with chocolate and her latest, kaffir lime leaf, which all make for an incredible sensory experience. All of her cakes and confectionary are fit to please this little punk kid’s excellent taste, and we’re sure you will discover exactly what it is you are looking for, even if you don’t know what that is yet!  

www.lpksculinarygroove.com

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