4TH ANNUAL CNY CAKE COMPETITION--WHERE? THE SHOPS AT ITHACA MALL,NY
OCTOBER 6, 2012
Please scroll down for photos and You Tube from this Event!
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Contact Information:
Julie Ehrentraut, www.cnycakedecorating.com
ehrentrauts@verizon.net, 607-229-4500
Nov. 12, 2012
Delicious fashion creations take to the runway at Domino Sugar All-American Classic Edible Fashion Runway Competition
(Ithaca) The runway lights were hot, the models’ hair and makeup were flawless and the fashion looked good enough to eat. And it was. The models were strutting down the runway in designs crafted wholly out of edible materials as part of the Domino Sugar All-American Classic Edible Fashion Runway Competition held on Oct. 6 in Ithaca, N.Y.
The event was part fashion show, part competition and part fundraiser for domestic violence awareness.
PART FASHION SHOW: Four fashion design college students were each teamed with a celebrity cake designer. Teams were required to design a fully wearable dress and accessories out of five edible products. Each creation was then worn by a model down the event’s runway.
Seventy-five percent of the design was allowed to be created prior to the day-long event, but 25% needed to be crafted on-site. Required materials included Choco-Pan's modeling chocolate, gumpaste or fondant, SugarVeil Confectionary Icing, Photo Frost edible papers/images, Callebaut Chocolate in any form and Get Sassie Isomalt Sugar.
Teams included:
Team Oneonta: Zane Beg from The Sweet Life and Melissa DiSanto from SUNY Oneonta. Beg has appeared on 13 Food Network Challenges and on TLC/Discovery’s “Ultimate Cake Off” and demonstrated at the International Cake Exploration Societé (ICES) conventions.
Team Syracuse: Carolina Lara from Bella's Arts Confectionary and Sandina Saint Ellen from Syracuse University. Lara is a former fashion designer who traded in her fabric for fondant. She has appeared on “Wedding Cake Wars” and has taken classes with renowned cake artists throughout the world.
Team Cazenovia: Michelle Boyd from Good Gracious Cakes and Andrea Courtwright from Cazenovia College. Boyd is a freelance cake artist and food stylist for Wilton Industries. She has appeared on TLC’s “Ultimate Cake Off” and “Extreme Christmas Trees”.
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Team Cornell: Kim Simons from Cakes by Kim Simons and Grace Choi from Cornell University. Simons is a multi-award winning master-level cake artist. In addition to being a professional art instructor, Simon has won multiple ‘Best in Show/Division’ awards for her cakes.
PART COMPETITION: As teams worked furiously to finish their designs at their temporary workstations in the Shops at Ithaca, Event Organizer Julie Ehrentraut threw them a curveball. Teams were pulled from their stations and told there would be a sixth required edible element necessary to include on the outfits.
“We wanted to give the teams a challenge, as well as an advantage,” explained Ehrentraut. “Whichever team raised the most money for domestic violence awareness was given first pick from mystery items on the challenge table. The table was filled with Crystalized Flower Company's organic sugar coated flowers of all shapes, sizes and quantities.”
At the foot of the stage sat the competition’s three judges. Fashion Designer Anna Hovet, founder of Anna Hovet Designs, critiqued the show from her fashion design perspective. Prior to the edible runway show, she displayed her Fall 2012 fashion line with a brief runway show of her own. In addition, Hovet designed a special domestic violence awareness collection worn by living mannequins who stood stock-still on pedestals during the fashion event.
Judge Carol Spence is a printmaker and mixed media artist based in Ithaca, N.Y. She brought her keen artistic eye to the judges’ stand.
Finally, from the cake world came Steven Ciccone. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. In the past 10 years, his work has won several awards including a gold medal from the International Association of Chefs. His dynamic style has been embraced by celebrities such as the late Whitney Houston, Adam Lambert, Gavin DeGraw, Queen Latifah and Rosie O'Donnell.
Judges chose Team Syracuse as the winners. Winning cake artist, Carolina Lara won $5000. The winning college student, Sandina Saint Ellen was awarded $2500 as well as an archive tour of Tommy USA in New York, N.Y.
PART FUNDRAISER: This special event competition was also a charity fundraiser for domestic violence awareness. Not only were design teams asked to fundraise prior to the event, but proceeds from the raffle baskets and an art auction went to benefit the Ithaca Advocacy Center and Cortland's Aid to Victims of Violence Program. More than $4100 was presented to the organizations.
Ehrentraut chose domestic violence awareness because it was a cause very close to her heart.
“Thirteen years ago, in Ithaca, N.Y. my sister, Tammy Geis-Vellake, was killed in a horrific act of domestic violence. I have always wanted to do something to help others that are going through what my sister experienced.”
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Event emcee Victoria MacKenzie-Childs was also chosen due to her close connection to Geis-Vellake.
“Tammy was an artist employed at MacKenzie-Childs. Victoria played a big part in Tammy regaining her self-esteem and bringing her back to the happy, confident person she was before she married. I was honored to have her with us,” recalled Eherntraut.
The silent auction, featuring 15 works from locally known to world renowned child prodigies, was a tribute to Geis-Vellake’s love of art as well.
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One of the judges... Anna Hovet
please click on link below for Anna Hovet's interview with Bill from Chicago3Media
http://www.chicago3media.com/anna-hovet-chicagos-hottest-fashion-designer
Julie Ehrentraut, www.cnycakedecorating.com
ehrentrauts@verizon.net, 607-229-4500
Nov. 12, 2012
Delicious fashion creations take to the runway at Domino Sugar All-American Classic Edible Fashion Runway Competition
(Ithaca) The runway lights were hot, the models’ hair and makeup were flawless and the fashion looked good enough to eat. And it was. The models were strutting down the runway in designs crafted wholly out of edible materials as part of the Domino Sugar All-American Classic Edible Fashion Runway Competition held on Oct. 6 in Ithaca, N.Y.
The event was part fashion show, part competition and part fundraiser for domestic violence awareness.
PART FASHION SHOW: Four fashion design college students were each teamed with a celebrity cake designer. Teams were required to design a fully wearable dress and accessories out of five edible products. Each creation was then worn by a model down the event’s runway.
Seventy-five percent of the design was allowed to be created prior to the day-long event, but 25% needed to be crafted on-site. Required materials included Choco-Pan's modeling chocolate, gumpaste or fondant, SugarVeil Confectionary Icing, Photo Frost edible papers/images, Callebaut Chocolate in any form and Get Sassie Isomalt Sugar.
Teams included:
Team Oneonta: Zane Beg from The Sweet Life and Melissa DiSanto from SUNY Oneonta. Beg has appeared on 13 Food Network Challenges and on TLC/Discovery’s “Ultimate Cake Off” and demonstrated at the International Cake Exploration Societé (ICES) conventions.
Team Syracuse: Carolina Lara from Bella's Arts Confectionary and Sandina Saint Ellen from Syracuse University. Lara is a former fashion designer who traded in her fabric for fondant. She has appeared on “Wedding Cake Wars” and has taken classes with renowned cake artists throughout the world.
Team Cazenovia: Michelle Boyd from Good Gracious Cakes and Andrea Courtwright from Cazenovia College. Boyd is a freelance cake artist and food stylist for Wilton Industries. She has appeared on TLC’s “Ultimate Cake Off” and “Extreme Christmas Trees”.
(More--Page 1 of 3)
Domino Sugar All-American Classic Edible Fashion Runway 2 of 3
Team Cornell: Kim Simons from Cakes by Kim Simons and Grace Choi from Cornell University. Simons is a multi-award winning master-level cake artist. In addition to being a professional art instructor, Simon has won multiple ‘Best in Show/Division’ awards for her cakes.
PART COMPETITION: As teams worked furiously to finish their designs at their temporary workstations in the Shops at Ithaca, Event Organizer Julie Ehrentraut threw them a curveball. Teams were pulled from their stations and told there would be a sixth required edible element necessary to include on the outfits.
“We wanted to give the teams a challenge, as well as an advantage,” explained Ehrentraut. “Whichever team raised the most money for domestic violence awareness was given first pick from mystery items on the challenge table. The table was filled with Crystalized Flower Company's organic sugar coated flowers of all shapes, sizes and quantities.”
At the foot of the stage sat the competition’s three judges. Fashion Designer Anna Hovet, founder of Anna Hovet Designs, critiqued the show from her fashion design perspective. Prior to the edible runway show, she displayed her Fall 2012 fashion line with a brief runway show of her own. In addition, Hovet designed a special domestic violence awareness collection worn by living mannequins who stood stock-still on pedestals during the fashion event.
Judge Carol Spence is a printmaker and mixed media artist based in Ithaca, N.Y. She brought her keen artistic eye to the judges’ stand.
Finally, from the cake world came Steven Ciccone. He is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America. In the past 10 years, his work has won several awards including a gold medal from the International Association of Chefs. His dynamic style has been embraced by celebrities such as the late Whitney Houston, Adam Lambert, Gavin DeGraw, Queen Latifah and Rosie O'Donnell.
Judges chose Team Syracuse as the winners. Winning cake artist, Carolina Lara won $5000. The winning college student, Sandina Saint Ellen was awarded $2500 as well as an archive tour of Tommy USA in New York, N.Y.
PART FUNDRAISER: This special event competition was also a charity fundraiser for domestic violence awareness. Not only were design teams asked to fundraise prior to the event, but proceeds from the raffle baskets and an art auction went to benefit the Ithaca Advocacy Center and Cortland's Aid to Victims of Violence Program. More than $4100 was presented to the organizations.
Ehrentraut chose domestic violence awareness because it was a cause very close to her heart.
“Thirteen years ago, in Ithaca, N.Y. my sister, Tammy Geis-Vellake, was killed in a horrific act of domestic violence. I have always wanted to do something to help others that are going through what my sister experienced.”
(More—Page 2 of 3)
Domino Sugar All-American Classic Edible Fashion Runway 3 of 3
Event emcee Victoria MacKenzie-Childs was also chosen due to her close connection to Geis-Vellake.
“Tammy was an artist employed at MacKenzie-Childs. Victoria played a big part in Tammy regaining her self-esteem and bringing her back to the happy, confident person she was before she married. I was honored to have her with us,” recalled Eherntraut.
The silent auction, featuring 15 works from locally known to world renowned child prodigies, was a tribute to Geis-Vellake’s love of art as well.
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One of the judges... Anna Hovet
please click on link below for Anna Hovet's interview with Bill from Chicago3Media
http://www.chicago3media.com/anna-hovet-chicagos-hottest-fashion-designer
