The Fine Round cake

This adaptation of an English fairy tale offers a lavish variation on the story of the Gingerbread Boy. A freshly baked cake leaps from the oven and rolls "on and on" to escape a parade of resplendently attired creatures eager for a morsel. As expected, the cake's cockiness proves its own undoing, and a cagey fox reaps the tasty rewards. Calling to mind the rococo paintings of Gennady Spirin, the elaborately detailed artwork is truly sumptuous. The husband-and-wife ... >Voir plus