Here's a link to the Miami Dade County Fair handbook- click on Creative Cakes. (The cake on the flyer is my entry last year.) http://www.thefairexhibits.com/AdultExhibitsHandbook.asp The International Orchid show was held in Jan. in conjuction with the World Orchid Show. Here's the link to their info:http://www.19woc.com/Contests/cakecontest.htm

Thanks so much Joshalow! I guess my internet research skills are not as good as I thought.

Well it's too late to enter for the Youth Fair...but now I have some goals for next year!

Beautiful cake, by the way! You must be very proud! You're very talented!

very nice cake, and thanks for the info wish i would of posted this sooner i would of had a chance to enter..are you participating this time around again? and let me ask you are people that are not participating can they stil go and look at the cakes??

very nice cake, and thanks for the info wish i would of posted this sooner i would of had a chance to enter..are you participating this time around again? and let me ask you are people that are not participating can they stil go and look at the cakes??

You can go in - just have to pay the admittance fee to the County Fair. The competition last year was done on a week night, in front of the judges (2 hours for assembling and doing finishing touches on the cakes). The cakes were then put in display cases for the rest of the fair.
I'm not doing either of these competitions this year- too busy with other things. I wished I had done the orchid one this year as this was a "huge" orchid show this year, supposedly.

zenu,

You will be added to the Florida Chapter and they/we are currently working on planning the ICES Convention that is going to be at Disney in July (*we're very busy*). There is a quarterly newsletter that the FL Chapter puts out.

I would check out this site for events, happenings and meetings of other cake clubs.

http://www.flices.org/default.asp

Sorry you missed the last DOS.

HTH

Thanks rozdei and joshalow.

Maybe I can attend the next dos- if it's not too far.
Is there any way we can get people like Nicholas Lodge or Toba Garrett to do classes somewhere in South Florida? I get really envious when I see all these events going on everywhere but here.

joshalow: isn't it nerve-wracking to decorate in front of the judges? Who are these judges anyways?

Thanks again!

Nic Lodge is doing a demo at the ICES Convention at Disney in July.

There is going to be a ton of demos and classes packed into a few days. Our fellow CCer, JenniferMI is doing a demo too. I'm sure there are other CC'ers doing demos and I know a bunch of CC'ers are attending.

I don't really know who the judges were- just that at least two of them were either chefs or something like that.

Nic Lodge did come down to Broward Co. last year for two days. Check his website every once in a while to see if he's coming down again.

I am doing one of the demos at the ICES convention- enchanting mini cakes for little princesses.

Hey everyone,
I am also in miami and I'm looking for more things to do "cake". Could someone send me the link to sign up for ICES?

[quote="jen2184"]very nice cake, quote]


Thank you so much!!

Florida Chapter of ICES
http://www.flices.org/events.asp

ICES website
http://www.ices.org/

For the Annual Convention info see:
http://www.ices.org/convention/convention.htm

Forgot this link, membership information:
http://www.ices.org/membership/membership.htm

Thanks a bunch checking it out now!!!

thank you guys for all the helpful tips in regards to this, does ices ever come down to miami, ive heard the closes they come is orlando any chance of it being held sometime down here

jen2184,

We had a Day of Sharing (DOS) last weekend in West Palm Beach County and there were Miami area folks there.

I think they are starting or there is a Miami area cake club. If someone knows of this, please post for jen2184.

And I'm not sure if these other cake clubs are near you but you can see a listing at:
http://www.flices.org/events.asp

AWish someone would update this thread. If anyone knows of anything in 2013. I'd greatly appreciate the imput