Bakers, architects team up for Carnegie Museum pastry competition

Published: Friday, February 8, 2013, 8:57p.m. Updated 11 hours ago

Karissa Pytlak landed her dream job as an architect just about a year ago.

She never expected there'd be so much sugar, flour and frosting involved.

No one told her she'd be mixing it up with clients over sweets and pastries.

But that's exactly what has been happening the past few weeks.

She's on one of five teams of architects and bakers who have been beating eggs and whisking batter, hoping to win what the Heinz Architectural Center is calling CAKEitecture.

The pastry competition will help the center mark its 20th anniversary this year. A winner will be crowned Saturday.

All I knew was we'd want a cake to celebrate. It's a birthday, after all, says Tracy Myers, the center's curator of architecture.

The idea grew from there. And so have the cakes.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater never looked so delicious, with its buttery poundcake walls and white buttercream icing fountains.

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Bakers, architects team up for Carnegie Museum pastry competition