State Fair Cake

Last year when me and my mother went to the Utah State Fair we noticed that they had a wedding cake competition. It intrigued me. We talked had about it on and off for awhile to decide on whether I should enter it are not the following year. Well, as the time grew closer, I was still not sure if I wanted to do it, but my mom was more persistent. She said to just do it for fun, and see how it goes. So I finally decided "what the heck" lets give it a try. I wanted to do something simple and fun, but also elegant. So I came up with a design that I pulled from a couple of different cake that I liked. It's not much, but I love it. I call it "Bridal Gown"



I covered all three tiers with fondant, and then did some fondant draping on the bottom tier to kind on make it look like the bottom of a flowing wedding dress. I painted it with pearl luster dust to give it a little something extra. Then I did some burgundy lacing down the top two tiers (kind of a corset look) and finished it off with a bow. Since it was going to have to sit at the fair for a a week or so, I decided to use silk flowers instead of real ones. I made the cake Red Velet, so when they cut into it to taste it, it had the same burgundy red to accent the rest of the cake.

My mom was supportive and came with me to drop it off at the fair grounds. There were about five others wedding cakes there. I didn't get a good look at them, but there were a couple of really nice ones as well. The ladies there told me that they would be judging them later that day, and the earliest I could find out would be the day the fair started. This is the first time I have entered any kind of wedding cake conteset so I was a little nervous, but I tried not to think about it the best I could.



Mason and I went to the fair the next day with Brandon and Alex. I was a little anxious to see how I did. To my surprise I got First Place! I was totally surprised! I figured that I would probably place second or third, by the quick glance I got of the other entries, so I was really excited. It was alot of fun and I really did enjoy doing it, however, I don't think I will enter it again next year. I just have to thank my mom for always pushing me to work on improving my skills and getting me to try new things. Thanks Mom, I love you!