JJ's Amateur All Occasion Cake Contest!

This contest is for amateur cake decorators only.

Submissions must meet the following criteria:

8" round 2 layer cake.
Fully coated and decorated in spreadable or pipable icings such as Butter Cream, Fudge, or Whip (no rolled fondant, gum paste, molding chocolate, etc)
Smooth flat top with inscription
Smooth or combed sides
Piped border around top and bottom
Additional decoration such as flowers, streamers and confetti, balloons, vines- be creative!

I will score the entries based on:

Overall apperance of the cake (5 points)
Level of technical difficulty (5 points)
Level of creativity (5 points)
Level of skill in execution (5 points)

First Place Winner will recieve:

One- Ateco 672 professional revolving cake stand with non-slip pad, 12" diameter aluminum turnnable, cast iron base, and precision rotation. New in box.
One- Bragging rights. Slightly used.

Second Place Winner will recieve:

One-"JJ's Butter Cream Smoothing Kit", containing all the tools I use to get the tops and sides of my cakes smooth. (1 comb, one plastic scraper, one Ateco 1447, one Ateco ultra 1310)

To enter this contest post a response to this discussion- Introduce yourself, describe the cake, and post a link to the pictures of your cake on cakeswebake.com. POST TWO PICTURES, one top view tagged "JJ's Amateur Contest Top", and one side view tagged "JJ's Amateur Contest Side". See the attached photos for an example. Please limit your entries to one per person!

All entries must be posted between Thursday, 9/8/11 and Friday, 9/23/11.Winners will be announced Friday, 9/30/11

PLEASE NOTE- Just tagging your photos will not enter you into this contest! You must enter by posting a reply to this discussion!

Your entry should look something like this like this:

My name is JJ, and here is my entry for "JJ's Amateur All Occasion Cake Contest!"

The cake is vanilla pound cake filled with chocolate fudge, and iced with pink American style butter cream.

http://www.cakeswebake.com/photo/amateur-all-occasion-cake-top/next...

http://www.cakeswebake.com/photo/amateur-all-occasion-cake-side/nex...

The Following Entries Have Been Accepted!

Tracy Lynn Buttermore

Christina Strellec-Simpson

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Permalink Reply by JJ Becker on September 8, 2011 at 5:48pm

I'd say an amateur is anyone who has never been employed as a cake decorator at a bakery, but I will trust people to decide for themselves...

Gette G said:

What exactly makes an "amateur"? Like how many years/ months experience...?

Permalink Reply by andrea pineda on September 8, 2011 at 5:50pm

Permalink Reply by andrea pineda on September 8, 2011 at 5:51pm

Hello! I am of venezuela and my Englishman is very bad but I love the confectionary and it is a universal language. I expect to have placed my images correctly. An affectionate embrace. Andrea

Permalink Reply by andrea pineda on September 8, 2011 at 6:07pm

My name is Andrea Pineda and my entry is for " JJ's Amateur All Occasion Cake Contest! It is a cake of vanilla decorated with royal icing of candy elaborated for my

andrea pineda said:

Permalink Reply by Tammy Whitaker on September 8, 2011 at 6:27pm

My Name is Tammy and here is my entry for Tammy,s Amateur all occasion cake contest. The cake is white cake and filled with white Butter cream made with Butterflies , Roses and flowers. with Basket weave.

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Permalink Reply by Evelyn Vega on September 8, 2011 at 6:29pm

Hi, my name is Evelyn and here is my entry for "JJ's Amateur All Occasion Cake Contest:

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Permalink Reply by Linda Wolff on September 8, 2011 at 6:38pm

jj, does this include self taught decorators? Never had any lessons my whole life except for what I have read, saw on videos, watched on TV. I will upload my picture and hopefully, it will pass. If this is not acceptable, I will just have to make a cake! (I'm hungry for cake anyway!)

Permalink Reply by Joann Smith on September 8, 2011 at 6:53pm

My name is Joann Smith and here is my entry for "JJ's Amateur All Occasion Cake Contest!"

The cake is a Red Velvet with Cream cheese icing. The piping on the side is also cream cheese icing. All the flowers are made with butter cream icing.

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Permalink Reply by andrea pineda on September 8, 2011 at 6:55pm

Beatiful!

Linda Wolff said:

jj, does this include self taught decorators? Never had any lessons my whole life except for what I have read, saw on videos, watched on TV. I will upload my picture and hopefully, it will pass. If this is not acceptable, I will just have to make a cake! (I'm hungry for cake anyway!)

Permalink Reply by JJ Becker on September 8, 2011 at 7:01pm

That's a very nice cake, but I do need two pictures for the contest.

Linda Wolff said:

jj, does this include self taught decorators? Never had any lessons my whole life except for what I have read, saw on videos, watched on TV. I will upload my picture and hopefully, it will pass. If this is not acceptable, I will just have to make a cake! (I'm hungry for cake anyway!)

Permalink Reply by candy densmore on September 8, 2011 at 7:08pm