The cakes she made for Noa Kirel’s wedding made Adi Barak a hot name, but she has long baked for celebrities and the elite; now she is opening a chocolate chip cookie pop-up and recalling how she landed dream projects — and once saved Donald Trump’s lifeGalit Hareli|More than six months have passed since the wedding of Noa Kirel and Daniel Peretz, but alongside the songs and dresses, one image remains etched in memory: the giant Dubai chocolate cake wheeled onto the dance floor, leaving guests and everyone watching on social media in awe. That creation, along with the regal tiered cake served the following day at the couple’s second wedding celebration, was made by Adi Barak, 45, owner of the successful AB CAKE brand.Barak, a single Tel Aviv resident, has become one of the hottest names in the luxury event cake market. Now she is changing direction and returning to her first childhood love: chocolate chip cookies. On Thursday, July 9, she will open a playful pop-up devoted entirely to them at the Florentin Quartet complex in Tel Aviv under the name “Cookie Girl.”GalleryAdi Barak (Photo: Nadav Yahalomi)Barak’s path to Kirel’s wedding dance floor is a lesson in self-promotion and a refusal to take no for an answer.“Noa came to perform at a bat mitzvah where I had made the cake,” she said. “Her parents were there too. I asked her father who was making her wedding cake. He said, ‘I don’t know.’ I told him, ‘Great, then I’ll make it.’ He referred me to the production company Sky Production. I called the producer and said, ‘I’ve arranged with Noa’s father that I’m making her wedding cake.’”How did the Dubai chocolate idea come about?
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The cakes she made for Noa Kirel’s wedding made Adi Barak a hot name, but she has long baked for celebrities and the elite; now she is opening a chocolate chip cookie pop-up and recalling how she landed dream projects — and once saved Donald Trump’s life








