Cake Competition

That Takes the Cake is a Sugar Art Show & Cake Competition open to all ages and skill levels. The perfect opportunity to show off your skills.

The Cake Competition features these four separate competitions:

Child/Junior – Divisional Competition – Sugar Showpiece Competition – Tasting Competition
Each competition is judged by a distinguished panel of industry renowned judges and competitors will receive a judging sheet reviewing their entry (with the exception of children). Medals, prizes and cash prizes are awarded to top entries.

Note: General Admission entry is included in your competition registration fees. For competitors under the age of 18, competition registration includes a general admission weekend pass for the competitor and for one accompanying adult.

Sugar Showpiece Competition

A Sugar Showpiece is the centerpiece of a special event.  Sugar Showpieces are showstoppers that make people wonder if it is really cake and how it was made.  A Sugar Showpiece might be for a wedding, 1st, 16th or 80th birthday, a retirement, a baby shower, a corporate event, an anniversary, or any special event.  One defining element is that the theme that is carefully incorporated into all aspects of the cake and the cake display.

Divisional Cake Competition

These entries are classified by Divisions (age/skill level) and Style (type of entry) so that entries are only judged against others of the same style made by competitors with similar skill sets.

Divisions
Teen, Culinary Student, Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced, Professional/Masters

Categories
Special Occasion Novelty Single Tier, Sculpted, Special Occasion Multi-Tier, Buttercream Only, Wedding Tiered, Special Techniques not on a Cake, Cookies & Cupcakes Small Bites

Julia M. Usher’s Cookie Art Competition™

Classifications

  • Open to teens and adults, anyone 13 years of age or older
    (For competitors under 18, competition registration includes general admission for the competitor and one accompanying adult)
  • Both Beginner/Intermediate and Advanced/Master skill level classifications

Categories

  • 2-D/Flat Cookies
  • 3-D Cookies (defined as cookies that are constructed/engineered to create a freestanding, dimensional piece of cookie art)

Child & Junior Entries

An adult can help bake the cake for a child or junior competitor. The child/junior must then complete decorating the entry themselves.
To encourage young decorators, each entry will be awarded a “Best of …” title that will be displayed with their entry on Sunday morning and all entrants will be recognized with a medal at the awards ceremony. Judging critique forms are not completed for child or junior entries.

Tasting Competition

This year’s Tasting Competition includes the following categories:

Cookies
Candies
Common Ingredient – Pumpkin
Holiday Breakfast Pastries
Holiday Party Appetizers

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