Greetings, All!

Theresa here, the official moderator for the first Cake Central Cake Decorating Throwdown! Thank you for joining us here this evening.

The rules are simple -

Choose the cake which you think is decorated best from the photos below. Then go above this post and cast your vote for your favorite cake by choosing the radio button for the corresponding cake. Voting will commence immediately, and run for 7 days, until Saturday, March 29, at 6 AM DST, USA. The winner will be announced after 9 AM DST, USA.

The descriptions are as follows:

Contestant 1 --

First time GP roses, GP Cross and plaque, fondant and BC.. With some RI features

Contestant 2 --

12" base cake, 8's on top. I made the Cross, Roses, and Leaves of homemade fondant and gumpaste. Cakes are frosted in all buttercream. All 100% edible.

Comments and constructive criticism will be allowed in the body of the thread.

This poll will run for 1 week, with the winner to be announced on Saturday morning, April 29, after 9 AM.

And in case someone is wondering, I have decided to Not vote in this contest, since I already know whose entry is who's.

So to all of you who have been patiently waiting - I say

ALLEZ CAKE!

Enjoy -

Theresa

Beautiful Cakes Ladies, Congrats!!, and let me say that you both did outstanding on your cakes. From the designs to all the decorations they are all amazing ladies.

WOW, I didn't think it would be this hard to chose, both cakes are decorated wonderfully.

God Bless & Good Luck to the both of you,
Sharon

p.s. Thanks to you both, for this throw down. It has been so much fun reading all the trash talk between the two of you (which I know was all in fun) to waiting to see these beautiful cakes.

Oh my... well done ladies! it's hard to choose because I love both cakes for totally different reasons. They both look so different and beautiful.

I will just have to vote later and ogle them for now.

Congrats Ladies ! Both cakes are just beautiful ! Even the 2nd place will be a winner ! Good Luck !

They are both beautiful!! Soooo hard to choose!! Good luck to you both!

Both cakes are beautiful! Great job!

I love the colors and fondant decorations on the first one, but I'm really impressed with a cake iced in butter cream and done well! Such sharp corners and smooth icing...nice work!

Those roses are gorgeous!!

are there additional views? I think cake 2 has a glare and it's hard to appreciate the details

I only put one photo of each contestant's entry in because one of the contestants only submitted one photo for entry. I entered the photos which were taken at approximately the same angle, so that the view of each cake is similar to one another.

Theresa

Can I just say this ..... Lea aka TeeKakes has been such a pleasure to do this with...she brought my self esteem back up to where it should be...She is such a sweetie!!! And thank you to Theresa for doing such a wonderful job posting these for us!!!!


I just love you guys!!!!


Christi

You are both very welcome.

Hugs to both of you, and to all who participate in the voting. And for now

Good Night, and Happy Easter to all those who celebrate!

Theresa

They are both beautiful!!

How cool, I am sooo happy, it was awesome to find this thread tonight!!! Both cakes are so pretty, I love the roses on both! You both did an amazing job!!!!!!!!

I agree with foxymomma on the picture glare... I'm ASSUMING that it's just iced smooth with the little border you see on the sides, but I don't want to miss something! I LOVE the dark blue roses... I've always considered flowers the "easy way out"...(You know, the supermarket cakes with random flowers for NO REASON... "We didn't want to take the time to figure out what you REALLY want, so we picked a generic cake with some yellow roses! Happy Birthday Dave!") But the more I see on here, you guys really elevate edible flowers to an art!

(So, where do I sign up for the taste test? )

Great job both of you! The cakes are beautiful!

Come on to Kentucky Kansas and you can have a good ole country Easter dinner

Have a wonderful Easter guys and thank you to those who have voted already !!!!

Congrats ladies, both beautifully done

Both cakes are so beautiful; it's too hard to pick. CONGRATULATIONS!!!! to both of you, you both did outstanding jobs!

Hiya, can anyone tell me what it says on the cross on the second picture please?

Nice job contestants!

(Hey what happens to the cakes...are they dummies, or do they get donated?)

Both cakes are beautiful! It was hard to decide...But I loved the delicate colors of the first cake. The concept of the #2 cake was great, w/ the roses cascading from the cross. But the colors were a little too dark for me. I loved the blue roses...just not for this cake. I hope you don't mind my opinion...I give it humbly knowing that I have a long way to go to do such beautiful work!

Hmmm Mine is actually a order

No dummy here...well except for the decorator!!

Congrats to you both! They are really beautifully done! Happy Easter! & Thanks for the fun post!

Wow how fun was this? You both made beautiful cakes and I applaud you both. It was hard choosing because they are so different. It was alot of fun for us who has followed the challenge. Congrats to you both and thank you!!!! I hope everyone has a Happy Easter.
Faye

Beautiful cakes!!!! Happy Easter everyone!!!!

I just wanted to say how great this has been handled as far as the voting is being done. I like that we don't know whose cake is whose.

sAnd I also wanted to say how well you both "trash talked". You both did yourselves proud!!!! loll

Great throw-down!

Lu

Congrats to both of you! The roses are both cakes are beautiful! For Easter, I prefer softer colours but with one being an actual order my preference for colouring is irrelevant as someone ordered one of the designs. You have both done an excellent job and both have different methods used (fondant, buttercream) so it will be hard to decide.

Regardless of where the voting ends up - you both should be proud for pushing your limits and letting the CC community critic your work!

Happy Easter!

Actually GetFrosted I got to pic the colors on mine

Well wgoat5 .... now I am going to start trying to guess which is your cake! By the way, none of the roses look like cabbage roses - they are great!

Both cakes are beautiful!! It's hard to choose just one. Good luck to both of you. It's been fun to watch this throwdown unfold on CC.