Today, students at Orange County Culinary Institute proved that anything is possible with the help of a determined teacher . . . and forty truckloads of chocolate.
The challenge started two weeks ago when Chef Willa Torres brought her Advanced Baking class to a vacant lot here at Disney MGM studios in Orlando. It was there that she revealed her students next project – to recreate the famous Cinderella’s Castle as a baked good.
It’s been done, you say? Did we mention that Chef Willa’s students were instructed to bake the Disney landmark to scale?
Needless to say, Torres, a twenty-year veteran of teaching and a renowned pastry chef, had to overcome many obstacles in order to achieve her dream. Orlando city ordinances, recent heavy rainfall, and frazzled nerves threatened the completion of the cake version of one of the most-loved structures in the world. “Chef T is a genius,” described Yolanda Nimmons, an honors culinary student from Calista, GA. “Getting this massive cake to stick together in the heat and still be edible and at the same time follow all the building codes would be impossible if it weren’t for her expertise and her energy. I am truly learning how to be a better pastry chef and chocolatier from this experience.” Another sixth-year student, Michael Pansy said, “Chef T totally pwnz the dessert world and Cakezilla Castle proves it!” Cakezilla Castle is the nickname tagged by the Orange County Culinary Institute students onto the massive pastry, a name that has caught on in the local community. Airbrush It, a nearby printing company, even donated t-shirts, chef’s hats, and aprons emblazoned with C4 – Cakezilla Castle Construction Crew – to express their fascination with the project.
The original beloved theme park icon took eighteen months to complete. Chef Torres and her students put the final touches on the clock tower spire of its edible twin this morning, after two weeks of non-stop, around-the-clock baking, as an enthusiastic crowd of over two thousand well-wishers and dessert lovers looked on. With the help of Consolidated Crane and Scaffolding Corporation and Duncan Hines, the finished cake stands 189 feet tall, exactly the same height as its mode at Walt DisneyWorld, and required more than 400 gallons of chocolate icing to coat its exterior.
The giant pastry will be open for MGM Studios ticket holders until July 9th. At that time, the massive cake will donated to the city’s homeless shelters and children’s homes.
The challenge started two weeks ago when Chef Willa Torres brought her Advanced Baking class to a vacant lot here at Disney MGM studios in Orlando. It was there that she revealed her students next project – to recreate the famous Cinderella’s Castle as a baked good.
It’s been done, you say? Did we mention that Chef Willa’s students were instructed to bake the Disney landmark to scale?
Needless to say, Torres, a twenty-year veteran of teaching and a renowned pastry chef, had to overcome many obstacles in order to achieve her dream. Orlando city ordinances, recent heavy rainfall, and frazzled nerves threatened the completion of the cake version of one of the most-loved structures in the world. “Chef T is a genius,” described Yolanda Nimmons, an honors culinary student from Calista, GA. “Getting this massive cake to stick together in the heat and still be edible and at the same time follow all the building codes would be impossible if it weren’t for her expertise and her energy. I am truly learning how to be a better pastry chef and chocolatier from this experience.” Another sixth-year student, Michael Pansy said, “Chef T totally pwnz the dessert world and Cakezilla Castle proves it!” Cakezilla Castle is the nickname tagged by the Orange County Culinary Institute students onto the massive pastry, a name that has caught on in the local community. Airbrush It, a nearby printing company, even donated t-shirts, chef’s hats, and aprons emblazoned with C4 – Cakezilla Castle Construction Crew – to express their fascination with the project.
The original beloved theme park icon took eighteen months to complete. Chef Torres and her students put the final touches on the clock tower spire of its edible twin this morning, after two weeks of non-stop, around-the-clock baking, as an enthusiastic crowd of over two thousand well-wishers and dessert lovers looked on. With the help of Consolidated Crane and Scaffolding Corporation and Duncan Hines, the finished cake stands 189 feet tall, exactly the same height as its mode at Walt DisneyWorld, and required more than 400 gallons of chocolate icing to coat its exterior.
The giant pastry will be open for MGM Studios ticket holders until July 9th. At that time, the massive cake will donated to the city’s homeless shelters and children’s homes.
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