NEW YORK, March 11 (Reuters) – As a Chopin nocturne glides effortlessly from pianist Navah Perlman Frost’s fingers, a four-layer cake coated with lifelike pink and purple buttercream flowers sits in her New York kitchen.
Frost, 51, the daughter of famend violinist Itzhak Perlman, began piano classes on the age of 6. She performed professionally for 35 years in Carnegie Corridor and Lincoln Heart, till the COVID-19 pandemic hit two years in the past.
With live shows suspended, Frost took on-line baking and frosting courses, making muffins for family and friends as a result of there was “nothing higher to do,” she mentioned. “I did not suppose I used to be going to truly find yourself promoting something.”
Her flowers of icing seem like contemporary bouquets of roses, peonies and tulips or mimic artistic endeavors like Vincent van Gogh’s “Irises.”
“I’ve all the time beloved lovely issues to have a look at,” mentioned Frost, including that she majored in artwork historical past.
On the urging of family and friends, she posted pictures of her candy treats on Instagram that by December 2020 had blossomed right into a small enterprise, with cake costs starting from about $80 to $200.
Navah Perlman Frost, a pianist-turned-baker, stands subsequent to her cake, in New York Metropolis, New York, U.S., March 10, 2022. Image taken March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Roselle Chen
“Folks have mentioned to me to start with, ‘You are charging too little.’ I am like, ‘It is cake,'” she mentioned.
As COVID-19 instances decline and life returns to regular, Frost could not return to the stage.
“There’s a piece of me that’s having fun with this a lot that I might hate to cease doing it,” she mentioned. “That is virtually expressive in an identical method as music… I am having fun with that type of feeling of creation.”
A brand new-career spotlight was a buyer’s response to a shock birthday cake.
“It’s best to have seen the expression on this lady’s face when she opened the field, and the very first thing she mentioned is, ‘Is that this my cake?’ She was so touched,” she mentioned.
“Even when you’re getting very fleeting, momentary pleasure, I do not thoughts being a part of that. I am going to take it.”
Reporting by Roselle Chen; Enhancing by Richard Chang
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