4 Levels of Birthday Cake: Amateur to Food Scientist, Epicurious

We challenged chefs of three different skill levels amateur Emily, home cook Gabrielle, and professional chef Penny Stankiewicz from The Institute Of Culinary Education to make us a celebratory birthday cake. Once each level of chef had iced up and served their creation, we asked expert food scientist Rose to explain the choices each made along the way both good and bad. Which birthday cake are you blowing out the candles on first Check out Penny s level 3 recipe on the ICE blog: Follow chef Penny at Follow Emily at emilyslamduncan Find Gabrielle at gabchappel Looking for Rose Head to rosemarytroutfoodscience The Institute of Culinary Education is on Instagram at iceculinary Level 1 Emily Duncan Level 2 Gabrielle Chappel Level 3 Penny Stankiewicz Director: Vanessa Moreno Editor:Manolo Moreno Director of Photography:Eric Brouse Producer:Tyre Nobles Associate Producer:Blake Jesse Culinary Producer: Carri