MARCH 2009 THROWDOWN *****THEME: FOOD*****

The two competitors worked very hard and did an outstanding job on these cakes!! Both look so realistic!!!

Please take a look, pick your favorite and PLACE YOUR VOTE.


CONTESTANT A: BOWL OF SOUP
Cherry cake with whipped cheesecake filling carved inwards to taper, iced in IMBC and covered in homemade fondant. A "snake" of fondant was wrapped around the top layer to make the bowl's indent before covering the whole thing in fondant. The bottom of the bowl was painted with brown food coloring, then layers of fondant carrots, peas, green beans and noodles were alternated with layers of homemade piping gel lightly tinted with brown. The spoon is a 50/50 fondant gumpaste mixture cut from a template and laid over a real spoon to dry. A gumpaste tool with a ribbed pattern was used to intend the end and it was then painted in silver lusture dust to make it look like silverware.


CONTESTANT B: SANDWICH AND CHIPS ANYONE?
The bread is cut from 12x12x2 cake pans i cut two slices one for the top piece of bread and one for the bottom piece of bread and than covered in fondant. The crust is a separate piece of fondant cut the width of the bread and than glued to the sides. The lettuce, tomatoes, lunch meat, pickles, olives and chips are all fondant mixed with gumtex. For the lettuce, chips and bread crust, i used edible dusting powders to shade it for a little bit of depth.


GOOD LUCK TO YOU BOTH

OH MY GOSH! This is by far the hardest throwdown to vote for to date. The are both excellent cakes. You wouldn't even think the soup is a cake, it is so real. The sandwhich is just as cute as can be. It all most came down to eeny meeny miny moe (and yes, I do revert to childhood when I can't make up my mind ). But in the end I went with the soup. It just looks so real. But I still love the sandwich. You both win!

Oh man!! How can a person vote for just one? They go so good together! This will be very hard to choose, they're both so awesome!

both cakes are really good. very very hard to choose between! greatjob!!

Oooohhhhhhhh it is sure a hard choice!! Both are sooooo well done and special! Congrats gals - terrific work!
I'm going to take a day or two to think this one over

Mmm...now I'm hungry for soup and a sandwich! I voted, but it was tough!

I agree this one is so hard. I love the soup but I also love the chips


don't make me choose

These are both so amazing!! It was so hard to choose but I did it! Great job you guys you both did a wonderful job!

Decisions! Decisions! I'm gettin' too OLD for this! LOL GREAT JOB on both of these cakes!

Beth in KY

holy guacamole! these are both totally fabulous and it was an extremely difficult decision. It came down to the minutae for me.

I always try to vote, but rarely take time to post a reply in the thread. This time I had to say that this was the hardest one yet. The two were so close. I really had a hard time with this one.

guacamole !!!

that would make a great cake

sorry........

Holy cow!! Are you kidding me!! Those cakes are amazing..... tough...tough.!!!

Had to go with the soup simply because if you said this is a picture of a bowl of soup I would believe it. The sandwich is uber-cute though and I bow down to both contestants because you have mad skills.

Absolutely amazing work on both cakes! The more photos I look at , the more I'm amazed at how talented everyone is! Fantastic job, both of you!

Both are incredible! It's so exciting to see such novel and excellent cakes!

****BUMP**** ....Its gonna be a VERY close race!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow!!!!!!!!!! both cakes are amazing. Well Done to both of you and Good Luck!

The details are so amazing on these two cakes! Very impressive! I agree with the others-this is a really hard one to pick which I like best!

I agree, this is the toughest one to vote on yet! They both did an absolutely amazing job!

Awesome cakes!!! It was so hard to choose. Good luck to both of you. You both deserve a pat on the back.

I'm amazed at the standard of both entries and so inspired, duff should watch out you both trump him completely... and I LOVE duff! I found it really hard to vote and it was probably the crisps (sorry chips) that did it for me but by about 1% they were both absolutely fabulous. Well done x

(sorry i'm a lil late)

GREAT JOB TO BOTH SHELLY101 & SAYHELLOJANA FOR DOING SUCH A WONDERFUL JOB ON THESE CAKES AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNER.....SAYHELLOJANA

FOR YOUR AMAZING "BOWL OF SOUP" CAKE!!!

Thanks sugarwishes for hosting and congratulations sayhellojana your cake was awesome i wanted to pick the spoon up and eat some soup.

Thank you so much !
I honestly saw your standwhich, all cartoonish and cute, and thought "My soup looks like soup, but it's ugly! Why didn't I make cute soup?" lol! I love your cake Shelly

lol... I cant decide...I am starting to feel like I want to vote for what I want to eat more..both look so good!
Edna

I was so the other way around i was amazed at how real your cake looked I thought to myself why did i make my cake look so cartoonish

I would say they both are awesome in their own rights and both have done outstanding jobs. But if realizm is what we are looking for I would have to votte soup. It definitely looks so real to me. Not prettie or more difficult to make; just more realistic to me. And I'm thinking that's the goal here. Right?