Fall Cake Contest
Cake Decorating Corner has changed its appearance, much in the fashion of a tree losing its leaves in the fall. In celebration of Cake Decorating Corner's new design, I am delighted to announce my grand opening contest: The Fall Cake Contest.
The top three winners will share prizes from the following sponsors:
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Established in London in 1898, Renshaw has a history as colorful as many of its products. Recognized as the pioneer in the first manufactured production of ready to use fondant. The fondant is available in white along with a fabulous array of colors. All of the fondants are ready to use, no mess and fuss free. |
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Marvelous Molds, a subsidiary of Culinart, Inc., has been designing high quality, food-grade silicone molds for the home and retail baking and cake decorating market since 2010. The company currently collaborates with renowned cake decorators Elisa Strauss, Earlene Moore and Marina Sousa to offer the foremost designs in silicone molds. Marvelous Molds also produces their own highly successful line of silicone molds and patent pending Silicone Onlays™. Marvelous Molds’ products are each individually designed to produce an edible decoration in the most efficient manner possible. Each design implements patent pending advancements, a hallmark of the company. |
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Icing Images® has been a leading distributor of edible photo and edible paper art supplies for over a decade, offering edible ink printers, edible ink, icing sheets, electronic and manual die cutters, and DECOgel™ to retail bakeries, home bakers and cake decorators. |
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Sidney Galpern, owner of Simi Cakes, has been teaching and demonstrating to cake decorators of all levels from universities, culinary schools, cake shows, days of sharing, cake clubs and cake supply stores. Sidney has also judged and sponsored cake shows and is currently a member of the Icing Images Design Team and Team Sugar Art. Simi Cakes manufactures pre-cooked isomalt, silicone molds and blown & pulled sugar supplies. |
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Windsor Whip Works Art Center, located in Windsor, NY, is a nonprofit organization acting as a visual arts resource for people all ages and abilities, serving Broome and Delaware Counties, as well as Northeastern Pennsylvania. The gallery will host a show in spring 2016 uniting cake artists with other types of artists. Stay tuned for more details to come. |
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Chef Dawn Parrott CWPC a Certified working Pastry Chef and accomplished award winning cake designer living in Houston TX. Her inspiration came at a young age when she watched her dad make incredible cakes for family and friends. Many years later and mostly self-taught, Chef Dawn has won awards around the country and continues to practice and teach the craft as she knows it. Dawn offers instruction in hands-on classes and several dvd series in piping. She has recently introduced her own turntable, Tip and Grip. |
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Ateco has been a premier manufacturer of high quality cake decorating and baking supplies for over 100 years. |
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Kathleen Lange is an internationally renowned cake design artist and instructor specializing in the English Lambeth/Lange style of cake decorating and piping. |
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CakeFu.com offers free online cake decorating classes and demonstrations by cake artist Amelia Carbine. |
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Design Me A Cake owner, Edna De la Cruz, offers instructional cake decorating tutorials. |
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Cake Connection offers a wide variety of cake, candy and cookie decorating supplies as well as a full line of gelatin art supplies. |
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CakeMade.com is a brand new website offering video instruction by well-known cake decorators. As an offshoot of Howcast.com, Cake Made has an edge when it comes to instructional video production. Years of making many of the world's most-watched how-to videos -- 2.5 billion views and counting -- have taught them the importance of high-quality production. |
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Edible Artists Network is the information source for home bakers and sugar artists offering full color cake decorating tutorials, industry news, baking and cake decorating tips. |
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Veena Azmanov, owner of Veena's Art of Cakes, is a cake artist located in Ra'anana, Israel. Her website shares her adventures in cake decorating with tips and both written and video tutorials. |
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SugarEd Productions Online Sugar Art School. A one-stop comprehensive online source for cake decorating instruction. 24/7 access to a huge library of video and photo tutorials, recipes and articles, photo galleries and message forums. Individual consultation and advice from celebrity instructors. Hundreds of tutorials at your fingertips, and new content is added weekly. |
| Renshaw Fondant |
1 case of each of the following:
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| Marvelous Molds | 2014 Silicone Onlay Collection |
| Icing Images | DECOgel™ in 10 colors |
| Confectionary Chalet | $50 Gift Certificate towards any class with Kathleen Lange |
| Ateco | Silicone Mat |
| Cake Connection | $100 gift certificate to CakeConnection.com |
| Dawn Parrott Designs | Tip and Grip Turntable |
| Simi Cakes | Crystal Clear Simi Isomalt, Metallic Isomalt, Designer Silicone Molds, and Sugar Tools |
| CakeMade | Online Class of Your Choice |
| Windsor Whip Works Art Gallery | $100 Gift Certificate towards any art class |
| SugarEd Productions | 6 month membership to the SugarEd Productions Online School |
| Icing Images | Spellbinders Sweet Accents |
| Confectionary Chalet | $50 Gift Certificate towards any class with Kathleen Lange |
| Ateco | Crimper Set |
| Marvelous Molds | Swag Mold Collection |
| Design Me A Cake | Sugar Peonies DVD |
| CakeMade | Online Class of Your Choice |
| Cake Connection | $50 gift certificate to CakeConnection.com |
| Cake Fu | Advanced Fondant Painting Class |
| Veena's Art of Cakes | Tutorials by Veena's Art of Cake: David Austin Rose, Gum Paste Freesias with and without cutters (2 PDFs), Gum Paste Poinsettia with and without Cutters (2 PDFs), Carousel Cake Tutorial, Mushroom House Cake Tutorial, Cupcake Hat Tutorials, Apron by Veenas' Art of Cakes. |
| Edible Artists Network | 15 digital issues of Edible Artists Network Magazine |
| CakeMade | Online Class of Your Choice |
| Cake Connection | $50 Gift Certificate to CakeConnection.com |
Rules:
- Cake must be made by you, not store bought. Please do not submit someone else's photo. In the event someone else claim's credit for your cake photo, the claim will be investigated. If it is determined that you are not the rightful owner of the photo, you will be disqualified.
- Submit a photo that clearly shows the details of your cake. If they are difficult to see, they are difficult to judge.
- Please submit only cakes, not cupcakes, cookies or other desserts.
- Cake may be constructed with dummies, wood and hardware, but must be decorated with edible mediums.
- Include details of how your cake was made, specifically the mediums used and techniques employed.
Cakes will be judged by cleanliness of work, originality, artistic ability and difficulty of techniques.
At the conclusion of the entry period, Cake Decorating Corner members will vote for their favorite cakes to determine the top 5 finalists. Members may vote for as many cakes as they like, but only one vote per cake will be permitted. Voting will take place from Thursday, November 27th through Friday, December 5th.
The winners will be selected by the panel of judges. Winners will be announced on Monday, December 8th.
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| Jörg Amsler | Dawn Parrott |
Congratulations to the Winners!
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1st Place - Fall in Paris by Sherinhq |
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O Give Thanks by Rushing31 |
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Native American by Rocio |
Thank you to everyone who participated. Thank you to the wonderful sponsors who provided these fabulous prizes and to my amazing and talented friends, Dawn Parrott and Jorg Amsler for taking the time to judge the contest.
Winners, please contact me with your mailing address so I can make arrangements for you to receive your prizes.
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