Toast to Tech
Cue the Fireworks, This Is Going to Be Big!
Members of the MIT community and their guests are invited to campus for a once-in-150-years party on Saturday, June 4, from 9:30-11:00 p.m.
Toast to Tech
9:30-11:00 p.m.
Killian Court
Enjoy live music, festive libations, an amazing dessert (see below), and general merrymaking…and fireworks launched from the river! FREE.
Take a bite out of the Institute
What weighs 16,000 ounces, is 24 feet long and 4.5 feet high (in places), contains 1,350 extra-large eggs, and has a mere 500,000 calories?
Only the most awesome cake MIT has ever seen.
Picture it: a Charles River of blue cupcakes floating along an edible replica of campus including Simmons Hall, the Stata Center, Kresge Auditorium, the main group around Killian Court, and the Sloan School.
It's just one of the treats the Institute has in store for Toast to Tech.
Another fun surprise!
MIT150 will appear in the windows of the Prudential Tower, from the 32nd to the 49th floor.
- 86 windows will spell out MIT
- 99 windows will spell out 150
- It will take more than 20 people some 3 hours to create the message
More about the cake
Creator: Montilio's of Boston
Weight (cake and icing): 750 lbs.
Number of cupcakes: 1,000
Weight w/cupcake river: 1,000 lbs./450,000 g.
Number of bakers: 2
Number of decorators: 6
Days to construct: 5
Percent of finished creation that will be edible (non-structural): 80
Cake ingredients
Sugar: 270 lbs.
Cake flour: 225 lbs.
Baking Powder: 6.75 lbs.
Cream of tartar: 18 oz.
Vanilla: 18 oz.
Salt: 18 oz.
Shortening: 135 lbs.
Icing ingredients
Butter and shortening: 100 lbs.
Powdered sugar: 150 lbs.
Milk: 5 gal.
Vanilla: 1 qt.
