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<\/p>\nEvery year under the magnificent Jacaranda tree…<\/p>\n
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Late October, early November, Sydney turns on the most magnificent display of Jacaranda\u00a0fantastica… that’s\u00a0its official name \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u00a0Fluffy clouds of purple petals set against the blue sky, purple carpets cover the ground, delicate\u00a0purple rain falling on your shoulders, its like a lil’ bit of heaven on earth it is.\u00a0As legend has it, every time a baby was born in our suburb\u00a0a Jacaranda tree was given to the family to plant in their yard. That’s a lotta babies! This makes our suburb\u00a0a burst\u00a0of purple extravaganza. It’s breathtaking!<\/p>\n
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The tree in our front yard\u00a0provides a perfect canopy for an extravagant tea party, it is\u00a0so huge and deep in purple colour that it was featured on a postage stamp about 50 years ago… true story! one of our local residents told us.. so it must be true!!<\/p>\n
To mark\u00a0this occasion we all gather under the Jacaranda each year\u00a0to celebrate many things… life, love, laughter, family, friends and\u00a0loved ones no longer with us, oh and cake, lots and lots of cake,\u00a0purple cakes, cheesecakes, fancy cup cakes, sponge cakes, fruit cakes, cake, cake and more cake. We have tea in silver tea pots, floral tea pots, vintage tea pots and we speak from the heart as the purple flowers drop gently into our tea hahaha….\u00a0and\u00a0all wear\u00a0PURPLE!!!!!<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you want to recreate the look you will need:<\/strong><\/p>\n Every year under the magnificent Jacaranda tree… Late October, early November, Sydney turns on the most magnificent display of Jacaranda\u00a0fantastica… that’s\u00a0its official name \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u00a0Fluffy clouds of purple petals set against the blue sky, purple carpets cover the ground, delicate\u00a0purple rain falling on your shoulders, its like a lil’ bit of heaven on earth it is.\u00a0As […] <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,29,19],"tags":[39,36,37,7,38,40,35],"class_list":{"0":"post-1","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-decorated-cakes","8":"category-delicious-desserts","9":"category-party-styling-ideas","10":"tag-how-to-style-a-tea-party","11":"tag-jacaranda-cake","12":"tag-jacaranda-sugar-flowers","13":"tag-party-styling","14":"tag-purple-party","15":"tag-purple-table-settings","16":"tag-tea-party-ideas","17":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/artdecake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/174resized.jpg?fit=800%2C533","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6fdfG-1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artdecake.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"175resized1\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/artdecake.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/175resized1.jpg\")
<\/a>This particular year I made a jacaranda cake, I played around with my sugar paste until I created a flower that resembled a Jacaranda flower and then I made about\u00a030 of them and piled them high on a purple fondant covered cake. The cake was a 2 layer moist hummingbird cake with cinnamon buttercream filling, surrounded\u00a0 by Persian fairy floss… it was so pretty on the table.<\/p>\nI<\/a> also made a gluten free sponge cake for the ceoliacs amongst us filled with strawberries and cream and a mixture of individually designed cupcakes for the young at heart… who me? Ooooo don’t mind if I do \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n
Eat – <\/strong>\u00a0 Celebrate – \u00a0Enjoy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"