1.What were Valentyn Shtefano's pastries known for? Attracting ... as well as lip-smacking murmurs.
2.How long did it take Valentyn Shtefano to make the wedding dress? ...
3.What were made from caramelized sugar, beside Viktoriya's wedding dress? Cromn, ...
Valentyn Shtefano's pastries were known for attracting stares and giggles
as well as lip-smacking murmurs. But even his fiancee was surprised when
Shtefano told her he was making her wedding dress — out of flour, eggs,
sugar and caramel. The dress — made of 1,500 cream puffs and weighing 20
pounds — took the 28-year-old baker two months to make, and by the end of
the wedding reception, bride Viktoriya said she didn't want to take it off.
Shtefano is a rising star in the field of baking as visual art, earning him
a following in Uzhhorod, Ukraine. His creations have generated a buzz in a
place where cake is often layers of heavy cream, wafers and nuts or poppy
seeds — more something to eat than to look at.Shtefano is eager to
introduce new sweets to this city of 125,000.Some of Shtefano's cakes are
strictly for mature audiences, like a pair of breasts. But he also created
an elaborate Easter cake that drew hundreds to a cathedral. It was a black
and gold globe hatching from an Easter egg, with pieces of eggshell on top
of the globe and falling off to the side. It was too pretty to eat.His
biggest challenge was the wedding dress cake. At first, he sewed empty
cream puffs together, but the dress collapsed. Then, he carefully attached
the puffs to a wedding dress frame, and Viktoriya spent a couple hours each
night before the wedding modeling the dress as Shtefano added more puffs.
Her crown, bouquet and necklace were made from caramelized sugar.
