The 600,000 square foot Larkin Building, which has enjoyed a tremendous rebirth over the past decade, is turning 100 years old this year. And it’s getting a cake to celebrate the milestone. A really big cake.
The Larkin cake, created and made by Zilly Rosen and her team at Zillycakes, is 6 feet long and weighs 450 pounds. Rosen ordered 180 pounds of unsalted butter for the cake and it will feed approximately 2,000 people.
Each floor of the Larkin Building had input on the flavor of their particular floor and, as a result, different ‘floors’ of the cake are chocolate, red velvet and carrot. The cake depicts all 2,200 of the green tinted windows and other distinguishing details of the Larkin Building – all the way down to (or up to) the cell tower on the roof.
The Larkin birthday celebration is midday today.
Photo courtesy of Travers Collins