Saturday, March 8, 2014

"Former NASA Engineer Makes Mind-Boggling Cake Creations"

File under: Things I can't do.
From My Modern Metropolis:
...If you're a Food Network fan, you may already know the name BethAnn Goldberg. She's the two time gold medal champion on the show "Challenge" and the owner of Studio Cake, a custom-order bakery in Menlo Park, California. The Stanford alum and former NASA engineer uses her masters in engineering and work experience from NASA to construct incredible works of edible art. As she tells us, "Engineering school set me up for being an amazing problem solver. Whether it is the challenge of owning a small business and weathering an economic downturn or making supports for a 3-foot tall cake, it all comes down to problem solving and planning to make the best outcome possible."

Though she spends a majority of her time making beautiful wedding cakes (they regularly appear on the popular wedding blog Style Me Pretty), it's her special, sculpted cakes that will have you talking. As she states about them, they're "cakes that look like anything but! If you can dream it, we can create it in cake!" Who wouldn't be fooled into thinking they're looking at a humongous sandwich? "The stacked sandwich cake is actually a four tiered cake in disguise," Goldberg says. "It is a large column of cake with sandwich fixings on the perimeter. It took the better part of a work week to create, but who's counting?"...MORE

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