What It Takes To Make Cake
I Asked A Popular TV Contestant About What Special Skills She Brings To The Bakery
Sam Cade of Cade’s Cakes in Texas was featured on the niche, hyper-realistic baking show Is It Cake? She recently turned our book into a tasty treat.
We were instantly curious about what innate aptitudes are needed to make a cake that looks like a cheeseburger. So we interviewed her for our book, Your Hidden Genius, so we could unpack what special ingredients made her into the artist-baker she is today.
“I've always been super creative, like, really into like arts and crafts and like making a mess. I was also like obsessed with Martha Stewart.”
It turns out that Sam can easily picture her intricate cake designs in her mind’s eye. This spatial gift equips her to look at a breakfast sandwich from a neighborhood deli, dissect its design into several parts, and reinterpret it as a yummy cake.
Her quick mental math skills make it easy for her to scale her designs up or down and adjust her measurements without a ton of effort.
This has always been Sam’s genius, but now she gets to harness it as a baker.
Lucky us!