I think the blossom design looks fine, main thing is if when the user is browsing over the menu using the purple selector, when the user selects or confirms something the text should darken as you showed in your screenshot where the areas are highlighted in purple, or you could layer that area behind the text so the text stays the same throughout as the user browses through the menu. I personally like the first option better for more organization and layering of the item menus.
Rough example I did in a photo program as an example, and I think you know what i'm talking about =)
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