TAN SEE FONG LIVE Cake Decorating Competition

On 10th June there was TAN SEE FONG's "LIVE" Unique Cake Decorating Competition. The participants were given 90min to decorate a round sponge cake. They were provided with Fresh Cream, Melted Dark and White Chocolate, Spatulas, colours etc.
I decided to do an engagement cake. First I cut out the round cake to 1 big heart shape and another mini heart shape. The cake was frosted with fresh cream and stacked on top of each other to form a 2 - tier cake. Then I airbrushed the cake with red sheen colour. I coloured white chocolate gray and molded the bride and groom using TSF moulds. I also moulded a heart shape box, cupids, congratulations wording and made two rings out of chocolate.
I won "SPECIAL PRIZE" for my cake design and was awarded with a medal, certificate and a TSF pattern mould.

Colouring melted chocolate for the moulds ..........

Airbrushing the cake with Red Sheen Colour.........



This is how my cake turned out..........

NOVELTY CAKE COMPETITION

The 18th Bakery & Catering 2011 Exhibition was held from 9th - 12th June at The Mines (MIECC). A Novelty Cake Competition was held by ICCA on 9th June.
My entry for this competition was a Strawberry Shortcake. My Strawberry Shortcake was 33inch tall and the entire cake weighed more than 25kgs. This is my tallest and heaviest single cake ever done. Strawberry shortcake is accompanied by her Cat called "Custard" and a basket of juicy ripe strawberry. I needed a big 9 seater car and a trolley to transport the cake to the competition area.

My Cake Won "HIGHLY COMMENDABLE " and was one of the Top 7 cakes in the competition.

KUALI CAKE DECORATING COMPETITION

Kuali conducted a "LIVE" Cake decorating competition on 28th May 2011 at Tropicana City Mall. All the participants were asked to send in pictures of 3 of their cakes and 15 best cakes were selected for the finals. I was selected as one of the 15 finalist for the competition.

The theme was " Celebrate Life" and the participants were given 60min to cover a 7inch round dummy and decorate it according to their design. The only catch was a mystery box was given to them and they had to use the tools and material provided in the box. The mystery box items were fondant, stencils, boarder cutter and a bunch of flowers. The participants were allowed to bring pre-made decoration for their cake.

My cake won SPECIAL PRIZE for the best use of tools provided in the mystery box.

All set and ready for the competition.............
Getting my tools ready for the competition.............
All set and ready to start............
The competition area from Top View.............
This is my completed cake ..........

ICCA ANNUAL CAKE COMPETITION - WEDDING CAKES

ICCA had their first Annual Cake Competition. I took part in the wedding cake category. My entry was an Indian wedding cake . Details abt the cake have been given in a separate post below.  The competition was held in Sunway Giza Mall at Kota Damansara. It was held from 1st Oct - 3rd Oct. The first day was opening ceromany and judging of the wedding cakes. There were many demos held on the first two days. The second day was kids and teens competition which was on the spot. The final day was judges feedback and closing ceromany.

We were asked to arrive at 8am to submit our cake entrys. I left my place at 7am and since it was the first time driving to this area duing the peak office hours i was not sure what time i will reach. Not forgeting i had a Cake in my car so the maximum speed i was driving was 40kph. Finally I reach Giza at 7.30am.I was the first one to arrive. The ICCA memebers were setting up the competition area. My darling husband came to Giza to carry the cake all the way from the parking to the competition area and then he had to rush to work. At 8am all the contestants started to come one by one. Pauline, Shikin, Kelvin, Louis etc.........It was nice to see some MCDC memebers and there work........

This is my cake entry ......

A picture with the Panel Judges from left Rosalind Chan (Canada), Debbie Brown (UK), Eddie Spence is the Master of Royal Icing and cake maker to England's Royal Family & Rose Wallace (USA).

After submitting the all the cake entries we went for lunch at a place next to the competition area..........

The judges looking at my cake ........they noticed the saree painting ....:-)

After the Judges judged all the cake, then there was opening ceremony and demos by Eddie Spence and some Wilton instructors. By the time i went home it was around 10.30pm. Overall it was a great day . I couldnt go on saturday since was busy with cake orders.
On sunday was the judges feedback and closing ceremony.......

Debbie Brown said she loved my figures and that they were perfect.... i was so happy to hear that......

Eddie Spence said that he loved the elephants and the Mehendi work. He said that i could have improved the peacocks by giving it the 2D effect with fondant. He also said i had to put florist tape on all my roses needed more roses to cover all the gaps.......

 

Some pictures with friends & Eddie 

More Posing and Pictures ...............

Even though i didn't win, i had a great sense of accoplishement in knowing that i can produce such a wonderful cake which was admired by many. 

All in all it was a great event and looking forward to next years competition.