From Catwalk to Cake
8 August, 2014
From Catwalk to Cake
What happens when you take the hottest catwalk trends from this year’s Paris, New York, Milan and London Fashion Weeks and give them to Auckland’s top cakers? Shore City’s Art of Cake Awards 2014.
Yesterday evening, six incredible feats of cake decorating skill and creativity were unveiled during the launch event at Shore City in Takapuna. Each finalist’s cake, up to 1.8 metres tall on display, is inspired by the caker’s choice from current Fashion Week trends.
Throughout the month, the six finalists are competing for the public’s vote to see who has the best-dressed cake. The free exhibition, open every day at Shore City, will finish on Thursday 28th of August with the announcement of this year’s winning caker.
The 2014 finalists in the Shore City Art of Cake Awards are:
Wild Things by Eat Cake - Cake
Designer: Kerry Morris, Glenfield
Inspired by the exotic
collections of Alexander McQueen, Gucci and Valentino, Eat
Cake has channeled the animal charisma of all things wild.
Decorated with wafer paper feathers, ruffled fondant fur,
edible lace, fondant flowers and a gum-paste shoe. The
feathers alone took five hours to create.
La Vie
en Rose by Bake-a-Boo
Cake Designer: Elina
Prawito, Henderson
Looking at life through rose-tinted
lenses, Elina Prawito from Bake-a-Boo fashioned this
ultra-feminine creation over a period of five days.
Decorated with edible glitter and delicate flowers crafted
in waffle paper.
Eccen-Trick by Miss
Melicious
Cake Designer: Missy Fleming, Te Atatu
Peninsula
Flirting with an Anything Goes attitude, Missy
Fleming from Miss Melicious purposefully mismatches elements
and levels to create something oddly cohesive. Coloured
gelatine bubbles sit atop a cake that is crafted using
precision cutting and freehand scalpel work on fondant, with
each separate tier taking many hours to
create.
All That Glitters by Celebration
Cakes
Cake Designers: Rae & Ngaio Coppins, Manukau
City
Lovingly crafted by mother and daughter team, Rae
and Ngaio Coppins from Celebration Cakes, this glittering
tower oozes opulence in a palette of predominately gold and
black. Decorated with gold sequins and paint, fondant
overlay, isomalt gems and jelly gems, silver glitter and
hand-cut tiles. The lower tier alone took three hours to
create.
Cutting Edge by Cake
Circus
Cake Designer: Melanie-Jane Gee,
Waiatarua
Inspired by the fashion-forward collections of
Christopher Kane and Gareth Pugh, with a nod to modern
architecture, Melanie-Jane Gee from Cake Circus crafted this
cake over the span of a week. Decorated in fondant, overlaid
with pyramids and roses constructed out of wafer paper and
piping gel.
Shine Bright by Sweet Bites
Cakes
Cake Designer: Sondra Vicelich,
Henderson
Revelling in extravagant luxury, Sondra
Vicelich and her team of three cakers from Sweet Bites Cakes
spent over one hundred hours crafting this over-the-top
tribute to precious gemstones and platinum. Metallic
airbrushed cake, decorated with gelatine sequins, isomalt
jewels and edible glitter.
With 28 entries submitted for this year’s awards, a judging panel of fashion’s finest selected five finalists to compete against last year’s Art of Cake winner, Sondra Vicelich from Sweet Bites Cakes.
The 2014 judging panel were: Leonie Barlow, founder of fashion and beauty blog The Style Insider; renowned fashion stylist, Kylie Cooke; and acclaimed photographer Fiona Quinn.
“I was blown away by the calibre of entries for this year’s Art of Cake competition,” says judge Leonie Barlow. “While it was great to see such incredible creativity, it made selecting the finalists very difficult.”
This sweet spectacle is open for viewing and voting at Shore City from now until the 28th of August.
Key Dates:
Thursday 7 August -
Art of Cake 2014 launch event, public voting
opens
Thursday 28 August - Public voting closes, 2014
award winner
announced!
ENDS