Sure, they're not as detailed as wedding layouts. But the cakes melt, so they must be decorated in 15 minute intervals, with regular trips back to the freezer. By midmorning, we move over to the kitchen area, lining up behind four rows of work counters. Petra dons a headset and stands before us. There's a bird's-eye video camera over her counter.
Video screens hang throughout the room.
On the walls, picture-perfect cakes glare at us from promotions posters. We're all given a kit of basic decorating equipment, some of which is stored neatly in something that looks like a small tackle box. To build the interior, you don't pack ice cream onto the cakes. Rather, you get a three-gallon tub from the freezer and wedge it into a circular bracket. Then, using a wire, you shear off solid, horizontal disks of ice cream.