Stanford-educated Huiwen Lu discovered her passion for cake decorating while baking a cake for her son's birthday 12 years ago
, Lu shares how she devises her cake designs, the materials she uses and how she assembles them to resemble realistic toys, purses, Christmas stockings, sushi, tacos, animated characters and more. Over the past year, she has amassed nearly 30,000 online followers, as well as the devotion of the “Dr. Seuss Baking Challenge” producers.
Lu’s baking partner on the series was Kyle Smothers, an executive pastry chef from Columbia, S.C. Unlike the newbie Lu, Smothers has competed on four competition baking series, and he coached her from day one to set aside her perfectionist tendencies to ensure their projects got finished on time.
Carlsbad resident Huiwen Lu, right, with her baking teammate Kyle Smothers on the “Dr. Seuss Baking Challenge,” a cooking series for cake artists that debuts Dec. 13 on Amazon Prime and Amazon Freevee. Lu said the first “cakes” she ever assembled were made from non-edible materials and shipped from Stanford to her parents in New York as joke birthday gifts. Then, when her son was about to turn 2 years old in 2010, she was inspired by a cake show on the Food Network to make him a fancy birthday cake. It wasn’t great, but it was a creatively rewarding process, so she kept baking.
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