Salt Lake Chocolate Show Cake Competition

We were so excited when we heard that there was going to be a Chocolate WeddingCake Competition here at the South Towne Expo Center! Carrie’s Cakes was probably the first to enter, we were definitely eager to start creating. I amproud to say thatwe got into the competition so much that we entered 3 cakes! Here is a quick description of what we did…Carrie did a Whimsey style cake with a lot of delicious draped fudge and colorful striped bows and flowers, and chocolate truffles.She called it “The Mad-hatters Chocolate Fantasy.” Rita Biggersalso entered, with her brightly colored, lime green and chocolate, ” Chocolate Decadence” It was abeautifully decorated work of sugar art. Andthe newest memeber of our team Disa Cuellaralso wanted to join the fun! She did a very unique and veryfun origami style cake which she named “Origami Garden in Chocolate”. We are so proud! Disa won an “honorable mention” award for the best tasting cake in the whole competition!!! Yeah!!! The pretty cake with the red roses and snowflakes was done by Lonnie Cato. We have some more pictures to be added in the next couple of days, of some of our other friends who also entered.

We would love tocongratulate the winners of the competition! Our special friend, Susan Fox of Midway Country Corner won 1st Place with hergorgeouswhite chocolate roses.When asked how it felt to be the winner, Susan said ” It was an honor competing with such great decorators. I loved what the judges had to say to me. I can’t wait to do this again next year. Bring it on !!!

And another friend of ours Kelly Salmond of Kelly’s Confections in Ogden, won the 2nd Place with her absolutely elegant chocolate draping and roses and calla lilies. Kelly told us “I had such a great experience competing in the Chocolate CakeCompetition. All the cakes were so different and amazing. I was so excited to place in the competition. I just became “giddy”! I’m still coming down off of “Cloud Nine” ! Come join us next year!

And we are very, very excited to announce that ourown Disa won an “Honorary Mention” for theBest Tasting Cake! There were so many wonderful cakes that were there. It was so fun to see what all of the artists came up with. We were very impressed with all of the entries. Utah has so many very talented designers.We’d love to see them join our ICES -Utah Cake Club. Please contact Carrie if interested.And I really enjoyed seeing some of Carrie’s past students there!Great job everyone, we are so proud and happy for all of you. Keep up the fantastic work!

There was a 3rd place winner also, but I’m sorry we didn’t get her name or photo. Beautiful cake.