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YoUDee takes the cake
YoUDee has won several awards and trophies for good sportsmanship and mascotship but last week received a different kind of accolade. The big bird was presented with a heroic-sized YoUDee cake at the end-of-the-year picnic sponsored by the Office of Public Relations to honor graduating seniors in the mascot program. YoUDee was speechless (as usual) but performed an excited cakewalk in 28FF sneakers to show appreciation and delight. The cake was the inspiration of sophomore Nicholas Tennant, a hotel, restaurant and institutional management (HRIM) major, who also is a member of the Bakers Dozen, composed of students who wish to learn advanced baking techniques. The group bakes for charitable organizations and groups on campus and also accepts paid individual orders. “I wanted to do something special for the picnic and this was a good challenge for our group,” Tennant, who said he loves to bake, said. Under the tutelage of adviser Deborah Ellingsworth, instructor in HRIM, approximately 10 students gathered to bake the half-yellow, half-chocolate cake from scratch at Vita Nova. The project took 25 hours from stir to finish, using four ovens, and requiring 10 pans, dozens of eggs, about five pounds of flour, quarts of milk, not to mention sugar and butter. Using a template, YoUDee’s image was then carved from the cakes and iced and held together with vanilla butter cream and then iced with fondant.
“It was the largest project we have ever undertaken and it was an awesome cake,” Tennant said. YoUDee shared the cake with students who gathered on The Green later in the afternoon for Senior Day festivities. Article by Sue Moncure To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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