Dundee baker wins prize for V&A cake sculpture
A self taught Dundee baker scooped second prize at a national cake competition for her intricate and edible sculpture of V&A Dundee.
A self taught Dundee baker scooped second prize at a national cake competition for her intricate and edible sculpture of V&A Dundee.
Lynsey Latto of Clark’s Bakery was awarded second prize in the Baker’s Choice Award at Cake Fest Scotland yesterday.
Major Dundee buildings including Dundee Contemporary Arts, the Tay Rail Bridge, Timex Factory, High Mill @ Verdant Works and V&A Museum of Design Dundee featured as part of Scotland’s top 100 buildings at Cake Fest.
Hundreds of budding architects were involved in the creation of Scotland in the form of a cake which was then sliced up and eaten by thousands of visitors attending the headline Festival of Architecture event in Stirling.
Self-taught cake designer Lynsey Latto, who makes up to 20 cakes a week at Clark’s Bakery in Dundee, spent four days constructing the special V&A Dundee cake using a 3D model and photographs as references.
“I really wanted to do the city proud with this cake. Everyone knows about V&A Dundee and I felt a lot of pressure to get it right. It’s been quite a challenge because there is so much unusual detail to consider. The most time consuming part of the design has been making 2500 individual iced tiles to cover the outside of the V&A Dundee building.” said Lynsey Latto
“In 2013 I made a cake of the Hilltown multis when they were being demolished and I think that’s when I first caught the bug for creating unusual cakes.”
Simon Preston, organiser of Cake Fest said: “We were delighted when Clark’s Bakery got in touch last minute to say they were submitting a V&A Dundee cake. It’s going to be such an important building for all of Scotland so it was only right to see it on the map amongst all the other historic and contemporary landmarks.”
Cake Fest was a headline event for Festival of Architecture 2016 and part of the Year of Innovation, Architecture and Design 2016.