Cake Competition Advise Needed.....
Decorating By chelleb1974 Updated 20 Sep 2007 , 3:06pm by chelleb1974
Hello All!
I have only entered one competition ever...and have a question for all of you that have entered competitions before, or know someone who has.
It is a wedding cake competition, and I want to put pale blue roses on it.....however roses don't naturally grow in blue (at least not that I know of). I am making the roses (gumpaste) and am not sure if I should do them in blue because that will go with the cake, or pick a different flower to make that actually grows in blue. If this were a regular wedding cake for a client, I would just make the blue ones and not worry about it, but this is a competition.
Thanks for all your opinions and advice!
~Chelle
Mind you ive never entered a competition yet,
however I would say it depends on the actual competition.
I know that some are very strict regarding vegetation in that it has to be natural and realistic
and I know theres others that they dont care- they just look at technique, look etc
if you can I would call up the competition people and ask them what their rules are on the matter
Thanks Auryn - I was thinking of doing that and figured I'd ask here first!
~Chelle
Thank leahs! I had no idea! I will have to do some searching on the web.
~Chelle
It pretty much depends on the rules and the judges. If the rules don't specifically state that your flowers must be botanically correct, then you should have license to do what makes sense with your design.
That said, I'll say that some judges are sticklers for botanical correctness, regardless of what the rules say.
My judging philosophy is to try to determine intent. If it's obvious that the entrant was going for accuracy and missed (petals too thick, shape wrong, badly applied color, etc.), then I'll ding them for that. If the technique is good, however, I'm willing to allow lots of leeway when it comes to artistic expression. As long as the color is applied well, I don't care too much that it wouldn't actually occur in nature.
Best bet is to contact the contest organizers to get their input.
Thanks bkeith! The cake is actually going to be for the Mid-Atlantic Cake Show in 2008 - and I have come up with a better (I hope) combination of flowers!
Thank you everyone for all your input!
~Chelle
edited for spelling!
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