The “sculpture” being admired by Viviana’s madre, a friendly lady I chatted up at the muelle, is actually a functional ornament built of plywood to display exactly 15 cakes for a young lady’s quinceañera. The big blowout celebrating Viviana’s fifteenth birthday was last month.
The madre (I’ll call her Maria) particularly likes the style of this escultura; it reminds her of a tree, and her casa is set among several distinctive arboles.
“Tambien, como un arbol de una familia,” I opined. She graciously agreed, with a smile.
Maria was also attracted to the name of the pastilleria (cakeshop) from which she ordered the pastils y escultura. We agreed it was unusual for being in Puerto Vallarta--”Quebec”. Like in Canada.
The escultura is purposefully painted brown to allow colorful contrasting ornaments added to the taste of the quinceañera. “The cakes were all beautiful, and very rich,” Maria reminisced. Now their rented holder is going back to Quebec, via panga.
Thanks to Susan Pasko, local celebrity chef at Cafe Bahia for providing information and sparking my interest in the subject of this post.
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