At Cubitts, we hold ourselves to lofty principles of design simplicity. But who doesn’t break the rules on their birthday?
For our tenth year, a cake was in order, and having no ovens, eggs or piping bags to hand (only the contents of a spectacle makers’ workshop) we played to our strengths. Here is a recipe for the Cubitts cake, though it may prove tricky to follow along at home.
For our tenth year, a cake was in order, and having no ovens, eggs or piping bags to hand (only the contents of a spectacle makers’ workshop) we played to our strengths. Here is a recipe for the Cubitts cake, though it may prove tricky to follow along at home.
- Take a handful of colourful cellulose acetate sheets, and CNC cut them into shapes governed by your unbounded imagination. These are your ingredients.
- Meticulously hand carve every piece to give the appearance of thrown-together cake decoration. Icing that appears to drip down the side, in fact the product of lengthy hours of meticulous filing.
- Superheat sheets of recycled offcut acetate (the temperature is your best guess) and fold in a concertina pattern over the surface of the frame for piped details.
- Use liquid acetone to laminate your acetate maraschino cherries.
- Serve with candles. Do not consume. Do not start a fire. Simply enjoy its needless splendour.
