ONELIFE #36 – US English

ICING
O N
THE
CAKE
This visual feast is no ordinary cake – it’s edible art
specially commissioned from Dinara Kasko,
a qualified architect turned passionate pâtissier.
Explaining her unconventional switch from
designing contemporary buildings and furniture
to baking, the 29-year-old Ukrainian says: “I started
off baking at home, but I enjoyed this so much that
I became more and more interested in it. For me,
appearance is as important as taste, so I drew upon
my architecture and 3D visualization background
to add something new. I particularly like working
with sharp straight lines as well as simple plain
geometric shapes like cubes, triangles and
spheres, so I started
designing and making my
own molds with a 3D printer.”
This 70th anniversary
Kasko’s recent
edition of Onelife
collaborations with Miamibased
artist José Margulis,
demanded something
who works with geometric
rather special for the
abstractionism and kinetic art
to change viewer
cover, and what better
perspectives, inspired this
way to celebrate
particular commission.
“After I saw José’s
Land Rover’s birthday
creations and installations
than with some cake
made of materials including
plastic, aluminum and acrylic,
WORDS NEAL ANDERSON
I sought to transform them
PHOTOGRAPHY OLEG KASKO
into something edible,”
she explains.
Her eye-catching creation
for the 70th anniversary edition of Onelife has gone
above and beyond to create 70 gradient color
chocolate profiles designed by the magazine team to
each represent a year, as well as the evolution of
Land Rover from the first Series I in 1948 through to
the new Range Rover Velar.
These profiles top a light whipped cheese
mousse merging into a crémeux of strawberry,
cherry and raspberry above a confit that rests
on an almond sponge with lemon peel resting
on a crunchy base of caramelized pecans and
dried cherries.
“I worked to develop a unique recipe for this
special commission as I wanted to create something
individual, modern and cutting edge,” says Kasko.
“It’s been a real honor for me to prepare this cake
for Land Rover‘s anniversary, as I like complicated
projects and different challenges.”
FOR MORE TASTY TREATS see dinarakasko.com
The cake was a month
in planning and a week
in the making. First a 3D
computer model was
created before digital
drawings were prepared
for a milling machine.
This cut the 70 car
profiles from colored
chocolate plates. These
were then individually
mounted together and
carefully placed by
Kasko on top of the
layered cheesecake
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