AutoCAD software and 3D printers are allowing bakers to take their creative visions to new heights. Dinara Kasko shares the finer details of her architectural cakes with Destin Tay.
Kharkov, Ukraine is not the first city you would think for revolutionary pastry designs. Enter 31-year-old Dinara Kasko, a former architect-turned-pastry chef who has taken the baking world by storm with her cutting-edge silicone molds that taps on her expertise in architecture and 3D modelling to create stunning works of pastry art.
In 2013, two years into her job at Render Supply, a Dutch architectural firm, Kasko moved into her new house in the Netherlands with her husband which gave her time to Vanilla Tart experiment in the kitchen. Her baking hobby slowly morphed into a serious passion, as she began to incorporate her experience in 3D modelling software into her bakes. Cura and 3Dmax, software Kasko was familiar with thanks to her background, helps her manipulate shapes, lines and structures to form the digital skeleton of her own molds.
Kasko started full-scale production of her molds when she ordered a printer from Dutch 3D printer manufacturer, Ultimaker. She started selling her mold designs in October 2016. The precision of the compact 3D printer, meant that Kasko could produce never-before-seen cake designs featuring all sorts Christmas Cake of geometric shapes and patterns, such as Bubbles with Exotic Fruit, and Geometry Figure #7 cakes.
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