Meet dinara kasco she is one of the most famous pastry designers in the world
but how many of you know that she trained as an architect before that we've all seen the amazing
work she brings to life but what is the story behind this person welcome to another blessedarch
video and today we are discussing Dinara's journey from an architect to a pastry designer
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so hey Dinara it's so good to see you today i remember back you know a few years back especially
at that time i was on a diet and you know i used to just watch your videos excessively and just
every night i i don't know i had this strange addiction i didn't eat but i just watched your
videos and that satisfied me somehow so i've been a fan for a huge huge time and it's it's it's
amazing to have you on the channel thank you so i have a few questions for you today i wanted to
know your journey and since i got to know that you uh were an architect before you were a pastry chef
so i got even more intrigued and that is why i wanted to share your journey with everybody today
i wanted to first get to know your background so where did you study architecture from and what
were you doing before you started creating these beautiful cakes i used to be an architect and i
worked during eight years i think i changed a few companies i work also like i made my
personal also projects so i made interiors and exterior designs for like different objects
i started when i was 18. um after university after like these lessons i went to some office and i
made some simple drawings i worked with paper i made paper houses uh with glue after i graduated i
um we moved to our new apartment with my husband and i got my my own own like owen uh with so
with all the equipment and i started cooking okay of course because we ate something and i
started baking i just tried a little by little uh then i tried like more and more complex recipes
and then one day i decided to attend a master class with some professional chef and then i
attended more and more classes every year and i i was very passionate so i like to attend i liked
watching other chefs i liked making cakes and then in 2014 my daughter was born my first baby and
i stopped my architectural career at this time but i didn't make any renders and pictures on my
computer but i baked a lot and i started posting um different pictures on the instagram and then i
became famous suddenly and everything happened suddenly for me i didn't think about being a
pastry chef or making cakes when i was young for example never but it happened and now i can't even
say that right now for example i'm pastry chef because we do not produce cakes and we do not
sell cakes and we do not have uh you know clients who buy cakes but i like to say that now i am like
pastry uh pastry designer uh cake mold designer because we are making um designs for our for cakes
for molds and this is our main goal right now so i mean when you started like when you got the
oven and you started did you have any prior baking experience before that or did you just start from
the point you got the oven second variant so i just uh starting i started baking i tried
i baked different recipes little by little every day but you know you don't need to be
you don't need to study a lot for example five years at the university it's not
physic or like biology so you just need to start doing something and of course it depends on like
how many attention you pay how many uh how many attempts you make how many cakes you bake and
also on your on your passion and everything like it depends on you but after three years i i really
learned a lot and i made many different cakes so i i really had a big experience
you know if we compare with some pastry chefs who has who have a very big experience like 20
years experience but during these 20 years they can bake only cupcakes and sponges
like every day the same and if we compare us in some points i will be more professional in some
points they will be but it depends on what you want to have there so i wanted to ask you know uh
you print these amazing and remarkable 3d moulds for cakes now
so what software do you use to design them i use 3ds max it's the main software
also we work with of course some software for 3d printers like cura and some other then we use
grasshopper rhinocoros houdini sometimes for drawings we use autocad or archicad
and in my job in general i was also premier pro adobe illustrator photoshop some other
softwares all right perfect so when you create these 3d moulds uh they're made of
silicon right so do you directly 3d print silicon molds or what is the process like
no we print the plastic molds i especially i have right now so we print these plastic shapes and
we have for each shape we have some like walls so you need to bring clothes then stick them together
and then just pour silicone here and after silicon set you can take this silicone mold and then you
can work with this silicon so you pour inside the mousse put filling inside and then you freeze it
and mold it and you you get the ready cake so do you create like sponge cakes or what are your
preferred types of cake to create i make mousse cakes when we have mousse and different layers
inside sponge of course yes but you can see here we have a lot of mousse smooth smooth and jelly
and sponge very usually it's very thin and it's on the bottom so so basically the topmost layer
where you can do a lot of experimentation that you do with your cakes with is the mousse part yes yes
so you know having a social media presence a huge part of that is like documenting and uh you know
what what work you've already done now you need to make it visually appealing bring that to life
so how has that process evolved over the years do you have a team to do that now as well uh
like media uh yeah like whatever you post no i'm i'm doing everything myself and it's difficult
and of course i don't have enough time to post sometimes information because i'm working on
some new projects uh interviews and talking with people trying to answer some customers
i need to find some stuff who will do this and right now i am working on this so maybe
uh soon i will have we call it uh smm specialist like social media
manager i think maybe yeah so i need to find some company or some person who will do this
um but right now i'm still like all my stories and posts and all the information is directly from me
but i think at the same time it's important you know um because it's my instagram
my social network and i think people feel uh people can feel when um creator um when creator
creator uh works on his social medias uh or cure and when some i don't know some special company do
it it's a bit different because in my instagram on my instagram there is like a part of me like
my soul my uh my mood i don't know it's like when you're creating things yourself you you put more
of yourself into them yeah could you like talk about you know maybe one or two of your favorite
cakes that you created like favorite moulds that you created for cakes uh i can say that i have ma
one my favorite favorite mold on the best mall because every time when i do something i like
this exact mold at this moment for example this is one of my last mall this one that's so pretty
or this one it's very funny mouth it's like red you see yeah
or this one it's artichoke and i have right now i have more than 40 moulds and i don't know what
is my favorite i like all of them really i like making new moulds like i like this um
exactly this process when i'm making some something new i like to uh surprise me you
know to do something when i print and i see the like final result and when i make this cake and
i like accept this process making something new all right so uh one final question that i had is
if there would be there is anybody who would like to you know maybe walk the same path as you would
you have any advice for them uh like do the same things totally the same or just be pastry chef uh
i mean because this is primarily an architectural channel so similar background in architecture but
wanting to be a pastry chef like you so um i think you need to understand uh what what do
you prefer to do like if you like baking more than architect why not because when i changed my career
it was difficult for me you know to um to trust and to understand and to be like i i wasn't uh
i wasn't ready for this and you know i talked with my family for example and my mother told me
many times like dinara you studied during six years and you are very good architect why
you want to bake it's not for you and she tried to explain this like you don't need to bake you need
to be an architect and my answer was like like why when i was 15 and i decided to be an architect and
i need to like to be all my life architect because when i became 22 i decided that i want to be like
a pastry chef or someone else so for me uh it was uh it was my answer and of course i understood
this not from the not from the beginning i understood this a bit uh like later
but this was my answer and i think it's very uh it's necessary to understand
that you like what you do and if you like architect and design architecture and design
and all these things you can work with this if you want to change your career it doesn't matter
uh which way uh you have to try at least a week in russian we say uh we say like it's better to try
and understand that it's not your then didn't try and didn't understand like for me it's important
but at the same time you know i like to say that okay i'm not an architect in a full like
in um in this sense like i don't make any buildings like i i do not build architecture
but at the same time i am designer and i do like small design objects so i call it like
i do some design objects and we are printing we are making some design objects so it's not
a big buildings it's not waste it's not sofa but it's still some objects and at the same time i
i'm not just a pastry chef i do not make only cakes so for me it's important to be
like a pastry designer and i feel like i feel very comfortable in this field
so i can't say that i changed my career totally i could say that i just changed a bit the way
to move and i'm working with edible ingredients making some design objects perfect
thank you so much dinara thank you uh i think that was very very sound advice and you know
uh i hope people get inspired with this and you know truly find where their passions lie as well
and thank you so much for taking out the time today yes thank you all right thank you so much
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