Question For Any Cake Show Judges

Decorating By nanahaley Updated 21 Sep 2007 , 3:54am by nanahaley

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nanahaley Posted 20 Sep 2007 , 2:37pm
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If you were judging a cake contest and someone entered the WASC recipe, would you consider it a cake mix based recipe or would you consider the cake mix an ingredient of the recipe? I am planning on entering my county fair in a couple of weeks and the decorated cakes cannot be from a cake mix base. So I guess I am looking for a technical decision about the WASC recipe.

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GeminiRJ Posted 20 Sep 2007 , 5:40pm
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I am not a judge, but I think since the WASC recipe starts with a cake mix as its base it wouldn't meet the rules as stated. It sounds like they are looking for cakes that are totally from scratch. Bummer, but that's how I read the rules.

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nanahaley Posted 20 Sep 2007 , 9:29pm
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Thanks for your input. That was my first thought also, but I'm clutching at straws because I don't have time to experiment and I'm familiar with the WASC. My reasoning was that a cake mix base is made according to the package directions and then adds other ingredients which is not the case with the WASC. In my way of thinking that recipe uses cake mix as an ingredient. Would that argument hold water or is it full of holes?

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weirkd Posted 20 Sep 2007 , 9:41pm
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I still consider it a doctored cake mix recipe. Sorry.

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weirkd Posted 20 Sep 2007 , 9:41pm
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I still consider it a doctored cake mix recipe. Sorry.

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playingwithsugar Posted 20 Sep 2007 , 9:42pm
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I have judged in the past. You would not be able to consider the cake mix as an ingredient. It is the base to which all other ingredients are added.

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playingwithsugar Posted 20 Sep 2007 , 9:42pm
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I have judged in the past. You would not be able to consider the cake mix as an ingredient. It is the base to which all other ingredients are added.

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nanahaley Posted 20 Sep 2007 , 9:52pm
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Thanks everybody for your responses. I guess my argument wouldn't hold water and it's back to the drawing board.

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weirkd Posted 20 Sep 2007 , 10:16pm
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Why not just make your own white cake from scratch and add the sour cream and almond extract to it? Thats all the WASC cake is anyways! And if you can put together that recipe you should have no problems doing one from scratch!

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nanahaley Posted 21 Sep 2007 , 3:54am
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Thanks for the suggestion weirkd. Something came up tonight that is going to prevent me from entering a cake anyway. Guess it just wasn't meant to be this year. Thank all of you ladies for taking the time to answer my question.

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