Cakes By Beth

My educational background is in science and in fact I have a PhD in Materials Science. This may sound like an unlikely pairing between cakes and scientific research but the two areas have more in common than you might think. Baking a cake is very much like an experiment, where you have to be precise and accurate with your ingredients, temperature and timing. Also, cakes are quite structural so require logical thought and planning to put them together. Add all this to the need for patience and attention to detail and you have yourself an edible science project.

I have always been a creative person, enjoying drawing, painting and any arts and crafts that I could get involved with. As a child, it wasn't uncommon to find me cutting up cereal boxes to make little card dinosaurs, leaving my poor parents with a stack of bags of cereals sliding about in the cupboard!