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Posted by Kevin McConvey, Cafe
Director

To commemorate the first anniversary of our New York office in its
current space, we decided to think big — a giant scale-model cake
of the entire block-long building. Our facilities manager, Laura
Gimpel, and I came up with a plan to construct this tasty treat and
serve it at last Thursday's anniversary celebration.

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building. Spanning an entire city block, the massive structure was
originally constructed in 1932 to house the

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Manhattan's second-largest building in square footage. Next,
our pastry chef, Danita Holt, drew up the blueprints. After a few
weeks of developing the plans, it was time to start pouring the
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actual production took four days, with seven of us (two sous
chefs, two pastry chefs, our executive chef, a line cook, and me)
working on it. In total, we used 630 eggs, 105 pounds of sugar and
20 pounds of butter. The finished product was five feet long, three
feet high and two feet wide. Now that's a lot of cake!

Perhaps even more challenging, we had to make sure there was no
waste — every last bite had to be eaten. The day after the
celebration (when we did make a sizable dent), we served cake
'donuts' for breakfast. We got even more creative for lunch
and offered an anniversary cake trifle and an amazing Oreo-infused
anniversary cake pudding. Throughout the day, we put platters of
leftover cake in the micro-kitchens, game room and library. The
last of our creation was consumed on the balcony on Friday night
around 7 p.m. by a group of hungry engineers.

This was one of the most memorable projects I've worked on so
far. I can't wait to see what we do when our office turns
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