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March 8, 2010 2010 Cake Odyssey, Competitions No comments

2010 Cake Show: Adult Advanced, part one

Adult Advanced Division: More refined skills. 4 to 6 years cake decorating experience; 60 to 90 hours of cake decorating or sugar art instruction. Open to all styles.

(There weren’t as many entries in the advanced level.)

Special Occasion or Novelty Single Tier category:
Any non-tiered cake with a theme such as a Birthday, Anniversary, Christmas, Valentine’s Day, etc. including one tier wedding or anniversary cakes. Any sugar mediums or techniques may be used.

Third Place for Special Occasion or Novelty One Tier
Cherubs by Angela Palesano
Business Name: Ruth’s Sweete Justice

Second Place for Special Occasion or Novelty One Tier
Royal Crown of Bavaria by Sherry Brown

First Place for Special Occasion or Novelty One Tier
The Hunt by Don (Jon, Ion?) Beard

Sculpted Cakes Category
2-D or 3-D cakes and sculptures. Entries must be real cake. Minimal use of Styrofoam allowed to complete entry. Any sugar mediums may be used. Must submit 3 in-progress pictures.

First Place for Sculpted Cakes
Grandpa’s Study by Joy Longberg

Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered category
These are cakes with two or more tiers (stacked or tiered). Novelty/ special occasion cakes do not include wedding or anniversary cakes. Any sugar mediums or techniques may be used.

Third Place for Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered Cakes
Find the Cure by Joshua Taylor

Second Place for Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered Cakes
Serenity Fountain by Sherry Brown

First Place for Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered Cakes
Every Dog Has Its Day by Don (Jon, Ion?) Beard

Wedding Tiered Cakes
Cakes with two or more tiers decorated specifically for weddings or anniversaries. Any techniques or sugar mediums may be used.

Third Place for Wedding Tiered Cakes
by Sandra Ojong

Second Place for Wedding Tiered Cakes
Grayce by Ashley Atkinson

First Place for Wedding Tiered Cakes
Pink Chocolate by Tammi Luckey
This was my favorite wedding cake of this show.

The flowers were gorgeous.

And look at the delicate (and evenly spaced) stringwork and bridge extension work. It just amazes me every time I look at it.

Buttercream Only Cakes
Any non-tiered cake with any theme decorated using only buttercream icing. No fondant, non-edible decorations or other sugar mediums will be allowed.

A Starry Night by Tabitha Ballard
Business Name: Cakes by Design

Third Place for Buttercream Only Cakes
Simple Elegance by Don Beard
(I seem to remember the roses as being purple, and I know my camera likes to show purple as blue, so I’m really not sure which one they are supposed to be)

Second Place for Buttercream Only Cakes
Love in Bloom by Don Beard

First Place for Buttercream Only Cakes
Bikini Bottom Bingo by Theresa Pipes

March 7, 2010 2010 Cake Odyssey, Competitions No comments

2010 Cake Show: Adult Intermediate, part three

Adult Intermediate Division: Developing skills. 2 to 4 years cake decorating experience; 30 to 60 hours of cake decorating or sugar art instruction. Open to all styles.

Confections Not-On-A-Cake
These are cupcakes, cookies, candy, chocolate, etc. An individual entry, not on a cake.

With the exception of one entry, the Confections category was filled with cookies – even the egg entries were cookies. Since this is the first time I had ever entered a decorated item to That Takes the Cake (last year was the tasting competion), I’m going to post ALL the entries for this style. Sadly, I didn’t get the names of all the participants and pieces.

High School Science Project (fondant on cookies)

Oval Eggsellence by Tracy Dahir
(yes, it’s a cookie covered in fondant, and her husband made the nifty display for this and her other two entries)

Cake Shop (another cool display – fondant on cookies)

Swans (fondant on cookies)

Snowflakes by Tracy Dahir (fondant on cookies)

More butterflies (colorflow on cookies)

Candy sushi

Third Place for Confections Not-On-A-Cake
Rocket Girl by snarkygurl… that’s me! (colorflow on cookies)

Second Place for Confections Not-On-A-Cake
Oval Eggsellence – The Sequel by by Tracy Dahir (fondant on cookie)

First Place for Confections Not-On-A-Cake
Spring Day by Christie Stephens (awesomeness on cookies) (it’s really colorflow on cookies, but it’s awesome colorflow…)

March 5, 2010 2010 Cake Odyssey, Competitions 2 Comments

2010 Cake Show: Adult Intermediate, part two

Adult Intermediate Division: Developing skills. Two to four years cake decorating experience; 30 to 60 hours of cake decorating or sugar art instruction. Open to all styles.

(There were too many entries to show to show all of them, so the photos below are the ones I either liked, found interesting for some reason or another, or they placed in their category.)

Wedding Tiered Cakes
Cakes with two or more tiers decorated specifically for weddings or anniversaries. Any techniques or sugar mediums may be used.

Victorian Wedgwood Wedding by Rosemary Galpin

Tulip Suprise by Julie Reid
(why do people keep leaving out the first “r” in this word?)

Bright Red Beginning by Nancy Castillo

Winter Wedding by Kristi Bomar

Note on the entry form: Damaged in transit. The groom was a no-show, he left the bride at the alter!

Third Place for Wedding Tiered Cakes
Simply Orchids by Julie Reis

Second Place for Wedding Tiered Cakes
Quilled Elegance by Caren Rumsey

First Place for Wedding Tiered Cakes
(no name) by Rachel Larson
Business Name: Quack’s

Buttercream Only Cakes
Any non-tiered cake with any theme decorated using only buttercream icing. No fondant, non-edible decorations or other sugar mediums will be allowed.

Second Place for Buttercream Only Cakes
Floral Essence by LaTasha Perry

First Place for Buttercream Only Cakes
Love by Doralou Brown

Special Techniques Not-On-A-Cake
These are entries made of fondant, gumpaste, sugar molding, color flow, royal icing, etc. Displayed as an individual technique and NOT as a decoration on a cake. A combination of techniques and mediums may be used, but it must be presented alone and not as part of a cake. Once again, no cake.

Date Night by Bobbie Byrd

Third Place for Special Techniques Not-On-A-Cake
Sarah – A Victorian Bride by Rosemary Galpin
Business Name: Memory Makers Cakes

Second Place for Special Techniques Not-On-A-Cake
Southern Splendor by Rosemary Galpin
Business Name: Memory Makers Cakes

First Place for Special Techniques Not-On-A-Cake
The Proposal by Tracye Boyd

March 4, 2010 2010 Cake Odyssey, Competitions No comments

2010 Cake Show: Adult Intermediate, part one

Adult Intermediate Division: Developing skills. 2 to 4 years cake decorating experience; 30 to 60 hours of cake decorating or sugar art instruction. Open to all styles.

(There were too many entries to show to show all of them, so the photos below are the ones I either liked, found interesting for some reason or another, or they placed in their category.)

Box of Roses by Anne Lewis
(I’m a sucker for gumpaste flowers, probably because I can’t make them.)

Monopoly by LaTasha Perry

Third Place for Special Occasion or Novelty One Tier
Flourish by Bobbie Byrd

Second Place for Special Occasion or Novelty One Tier
Bedtime by Kelley Masters

First Place for Special Occasion or Novelty One Tier
Farm Friends by Rocio Gonzalez
(is it bad that I keep going all girly over these little animals?)

Ina’s French Kitchen by Jolie Ortiz

Hulk by Nathen Verastegui(?)

Wedding Day by Barbie Wiley
Business Name: Be My Cupcake

Bivalve Built for a Few by Wendy Westfaul(?)
(another name I can’t quite read)

Third Place for Sculpted Cakes
Alien by Rocio Gonzalez

Second Place for Sculpted Cakes
Dadgum by Toni Bruner

First Place for Sculpted Cakes
Dragon Dance by Nancy Castillo

SUPRISE! Happy Birthday by Doralou Brown
(I spelled it the same way as it was on the form because I never know if it was done on purpose or not.)

Flowers Abound! by Carley King
(really like the colors in this one)

Third Place for Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered Cakes
Pretty Paisley by Judy Ramsey

Second Place for Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered Cakes
Masquerade Ball by Stacie Bodenmiller

First Place for Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered Cakes
Little Baby Girl by Rocio Gonzalez
(the little girl on top reminds me of the daughter in the webcomic Mangled Stare)

March 3, 2010 2010 Cake Odyssey, Competitions No comments

2010 Cake Show: Adult Beginner, part two

Adult Beginner Division:

Basic skills. Two years or less decorating experience; self-taught or less than 30 hours of cake decorating or sugar art instruction. Open to all styles.

(There were too many entries to show to show all of them, so the photos below are the ones I either liked, found interesting for some reason or another, or they placed in their category.)

Chutes and Ladders – “Revisiting Childhood” by M. Cassandra Fairbanks

Games are another trend you’ll see during this year’s show.

Cute as a Button by Darlene “Casey” Rogers

South Park: Bigger, Taller & Uncut by Dorothy Trainer

ET Dream by Liz Selman

Sushi! Sushi! by Debbie Byers

Stenciled Present by Chantelle Abruzzo

Wine Country by Chree Carr

Dragon’s Castle by Brenda Hamill

Third Place for Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered Cakes
Candyland by Holly Smith

Second Place for Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered Cakes
Super Mario Birthday Bash by Mendy Lindsay

First Place for Special Occasion or Novelty Tiered Cakes
Hat Boxes by Megan Thomas
Business: Meg’s Cake Shop

Wedding Tiered Cakes
Cakes with two or more tiers decorated specifically for weddings or anniversaries. Any techniques or sugar mediums may be used.

Starlight Night by Drew Padelecki
Business Name: AGS Cake Supply

Jane Austen Book Wedding by Darlene “Casey” Rogers
(normally I don’t care for the Regency look, but I’m all over this cake and I don’t even know why)

A Floral Fantasy by Tara Harlow
(Pink. Very pink. I wonder what the isomalt gazing ball would look like with LEDs inside it for an evening wedding)

Third Place for Wedding Tiered Cakes
A Japanese Wedding by Claire Miller

Second Place for Wedding Tiered Cakes
Moroccan Wedding Fantasy by Cassi Miles

First Place for Wedding Tiered Cakes
Spring Elegance by Tomas Rosales
Business Name: Sweethearts House of Cakes

Now you may be thinking that this cake is covered in large, clumsy flowers and doesn’t deserve first place, but if you look closer…

…you’ll see that all the decorations are supposed to look like embroidery. The cake really does look better than my photos make it out to be.

Third Place for Special Techniques Not-On-A-Cake
Strawberry Shortcake by Tomas Rosales
Business Name: Sweethearts House of Cakes

Second Place for Special Techniques Not-On-A-Cake
Ramen by Chris Suson Wingler

…drum roll, please….

First Place for Special Techniques Not-On-A-Cake…

…and First Place for the Adult Beginner Division…

…and Best of Divisions (or best of show)…

Wait for it…

First Place for Special Techniques Not-On-A-Cake
Space Wonders by Janet Barron

Next to Kimberly Chapman’s cake (you’ll still have to wait for those photos), Janet’s sugar piece was the most unexpected and incredible entry this year.