“We’ve been doing this for three years now, they wait for us to open up orders and they’re very excited to come get them,” said Erin Jarczyn, sales manager at High Tea Bakery. Staff at the bakery on Portage Avenue have been keeping up with the demand for state-of-the-art Folklorama-inspired desserts. Jarczyn said it’s the third year for the collaboration. Folklorama’s team chooses six pavilions to be represented in icing. This year, South Sudan, Punjab, El Salvador, Ukraine, Spain and Japanese cookie costume designs are made with care each day for the two-week cultural celebration. Portions of the proceeds from cookie sales go back to the Folklorama Cultural Preservation Fund. She said it’s a unique process watching her team make these – using a process called edible image printing. “Our owner hand designs from scratch all of the different outfits for those six pavilions,” Jarczyn said. “They’re designed, they get printed onto the cookie and then our wonderful studio staff go back in and hand detail them with piping.” She said they can make up to 36 cookies a day based on the longer time it takes with the design process. They will be available to the public at the bakery until Saturday Aug. 15.
