As a former line cook, Katie Pickens has grown accustomed to quick-fire results and immediate satisfaction. Making hyper-realistic cakes is quite the opposite! The proposed cake is first drafted out on a drawing board then made into stencils from every angle. This is before the initial cake construction and covering; all of these steps priming the cake to transform into art. A background in art, drawing, sculpting and of course, pastry seem to come in handy for this task - none of which she has much experience in. As she's guided through the process by Kate Sullivan of Cake Power, her appreciation for the skills required to pull this off increase dramatically.