7ft Cake
As a structural engineer I have alot of good answers, like a film studio. But my crowning achievement is when I built a 7ft entirely edible cake.
It was a competition for the queens jubilee to build the tallest and most interesting cakes between 4 groups of engineers. 3 of which had full corporate backing, Arup (wobbly bridge fame) had bought cement mixers and had all the junior engineers on shifts for a week. Unfortuntely our team weren't as well resourced, we represented the Institution of Structural Engineers and were formed of myself, my mate and 2 random students who we met for the first time 2 days before the event. Our humble background didn't stop us though, armed with 100kg of chocolate and 30kg of Rice Crispies we moulded our cake to look like a giant cake stand with pillars and platforms. We fixed it together with melted chocolate and covered it with smaller cakes, winning the Most Beautiful Cake award!
Of our competition 2 of them collapsed, first Arups, due to over ambition then expedition engineering due to the rain!
So yes, 7ft, totally edible, no dowels, metal, wood or plastic. Chocolate and rice crispies are a very tasty building material.

the best picture on the net is on MSN.
news.uk.msn.com/diamond-jubilee/your-diamond-jubilee-pictures
To see arups collapse check out youtube.
youtu.be/xiLjBM3SEfI
p.s. the crowed took it all away, bunch of scavengers. Even the pieces from the ground!
(Jeff Balls, Sun 14 Oct 2012, 23:43, 2 replies)

Someone left the cake
out in the rain?

Dear me, does nobody listen to and learn from Richard Harris* any more?





*Or Donna Summer, if you prefer
(Rise and Fall of the Atomic Cabbage Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 16:14, closed)

Do I detect a note of bitterness
in your descriptions of the Arup team ;)
( chthonic, Wed 17 Oct 2012, 11:36, closed)