National Capital Area Cake Show 2011

NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA CAKE SHOW 2011

Well the NCACS was just this past weekend, March 26 &27th.  Of course I entered again this year! I couldn't wait for the show and neither could my kids. I entered in the adult intermediate wedding category. I don't know if I consider myself intermediate but I don't consider myself a beginner either, so I choose to go intermediate. I was pretty pleased with my overall cake. Of course there's always a million and one things I see I could've done differently once I was done with it, but overall my vision came through. I didn't place this year, I guess the other cakes just outdid mine =( but I had so much fun it was worth it!!! So here is the cake I entered:

I decided to make it a Disney wedding cake.

The bottom tier reads: Faith, Trust, & Pixie Dust. And They Lived Happily Ever After. A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes.

All Disney lines, of course.

My middle tier was adorned with fondant swags and flowers with Mickey faces in the center. 

My top tier had piping and a few Mickey Mouses to break up the piping and because there's just never enough Mickey =)

Not too bad, I'm pretty happy with it. I'd have it at my wedding =) 

But now here's the best part of the show: both my kids placed =) I can't even explain how happy, excited, proud, and maybe a little envious I am ;)

My daughter got 2nd place in the children division with her Yoshi cake. She did such a good job, and worked soooo hard on it!!! I think she does fondant better then me!

My son got 3rd place with his dog show cake. And can I just say he has never done any cake decorating until this year! He also worked super hard on his cake and it shows! And he covered his in buttercream and made all the fondant figures himself.

 I don't have any pictures from the cake show (I was too busy crying over my loss, j/k). My daughter on the other hand took some pictures so I will be loading them up soon. 

Maybe next year my kids won't outshine me, hehehe. For now I'm just going to practice, practice, practice =)

The cake show was a blast and I am sooo looking forward to next year! 

Happy Baking!!!