Souderton Area Education Fundraising Cake Competition

This Saturday I had the privilege of attending a cake competition at the Souderton Area High School.  This was a fundraising effort for the school district which included a raffle, the competition, and then auctioning off the cakes at the end.   Chef Mauro from "Cake Boss" and his son also made a guest appearance!!!!!

The theme of the cakes were supposed to have something to do with education.   I had already had it in my mind I wanted to make a puppy cake BEFORE I found out the theme...so when I heard the theme I immediately thought, "The dog ate my homework!"   But that's not a very "pro-education" theme...so instead, I changed it to the idea of the dog eating the video game instead (every teacher's dream!).

 The dog is made completely out of chocolate cake, iced in chocolate buttercream, covered in fondant, and airbrushed.    The controller is also cake, covered in buttercream and fondant.   The board was covered in new purchased sticky floor tiles (there is also cardboard between the boards and the actual cake).  The props are all edible.   The paper says "Rusty pleez eet this homwerk" and Rusty is, instead, guiltily munching on an Xbox controller.

I arrived and I found some cakes that looked REALLY nice so I honestly was not sure if I was going to be able to pull off any sort of win.   Its always fun looking at all the cakes...there were around 18 Professionals and about 20 Amateurs (some of those were pretty amazing, too!!!!).

As the judging began I waited with my camera to see Chef Mauro go around with his judging pad, along with other judges:

 Looking at my cake.....and then I guess it wasn't convincing enough that it was cake, so.....

 He poked it!  haha....I was standing right there and helpfully volunteered that the puppy was, indeed, ALL CAKE.  

Still judging...notice the great cake right next to mine with an adorable owl....I definitely thought her work was superb as well.

I was so happy and surprised to find I had won First Prize!!!!!   I had my doubts due to some other really nice cakes and also because I was finding a few people not understanding the "punchline" to my cake.    In the photo above, the auctioneer is saying "SOLD" as he finished off the auction.  I hope they were able to raise lots of much needed money for the school!!!!

And here is me and Chef Mauro.....so cool!

And then I went home to finish my last cake order for the week, which is being delivered by my dear delivery-boy-husband as I type:

This design was taken from several Dr. Seuss cakes floating around online...the customer requested this particular combination, along with 24 matching cupcakes.

This coming week is a break for me to catch up on the house and some other much needed projects, and the following week I will have more cakes again.   I do have an idea for a non-current-cake post, so if I have time this week, I'll try to get it up...so stay tuned!