Professional Competition: Cookies/Cupcakes

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Jean Schapowal, #150, Cakes with Character, www.facebook.com/momschap

Around the world in 80 cupcakes. An adorable hot air balloon cupcake holder travels around this handpainted image of the world making stops in various countries. Each cupcake is topped with iconic images or foods associated with those countries. The hot air balloon also carries a topper from a country it recently visited. The cupcake board is hand painted with edible art paints. Each cupcake topper is sculpted with modeling chocolate, fondant or Cake Duchess modeling paste. They are individually painted and dusted as needed. Each topper sits on a delicious dk chocolate cupcake! 

 

Michelle Becker, #151

I have a  dot mandala obsession!!! I love the mesmerizing patterns that are formed just simple dots.I wanted to test myself to see exactly how small I could achieve some patterns I had seen onto cupcakes.

Sharon Siriwardena, #152, Sharon's Creative Explosion Cakes

My cupcakes are centered around my kids favorite movie​ characters out of Harry Potter. I tried to be more whimsical and had a play with the characters and their personalities. 

Suzanne Foster, #153

Sebastien Haramendy, #154, Un Cupcake, l'Addition!

The Meaning Behind my Cupcakes

Basque Country as a very old culture and a tongue of unknown origins, dating back, at least, to Stone Age and therefore much much older than any Latin or Germanic language. It also has a very intricate folklore and mythology.

Basque Country has a deeply-rooted witchcraft tradition. Sorginak - local witches - still exist and rites and beliefs are still very much alive. The summer solstice is even still celebrated every June 21st in the village of Zugarramurdi, were a folkloric festival features sorginak performing an akelarre – Sabbath - in a huge natural cave ending with the appearance of Akerbeltz, the goat Satan.

Nowadays, Zugarramurdi draws visitors thanks to its picturesque witches. But the village has a much, much, much darker history. In the XVIth century, a young girl from the village accused a woman to kidnap her in her sleep and take her flying to a place where an akelarre was performed by three other women she also recognised and accused. It was the beginning of a merciless witch hunt performed by the inquisition in all the Bask Country.

My cupcakes tell this story… although I gave it a funny twist as my guess is that the sorginak were only playing mus – a traditional bet and bluff card game – with their old friend Akerbeltz. I was inspired by Goya’s spooky paintings and the clothing of our traditional witches.

Carol Saiki, #155

Geisha cookie

Chrissy Meisner, #156, Bloomer Bakery

The cookie is filled with gummy worms. 

Yulia Bunnell, #157, Yulia's Cookie Depot

My cookies have two themes, "Loving Pets" and "Flowers". All of my cookies are decorated with royal icing using piping technique and then hand painted. 

Silviya Jankowski, #158

Beth Meyer, #159

Fashion clothing cookies

Sylvia Wilson, #160

The reef and sea floor are both cookies. Fondant fish and creatures. Reef covered in royal icing and I used the new zeoto pen to carve out the holes and texture in the reef and standing reef pieces. Coral airbrushed and made out of royal. Sand is a mixture of graham and vanilla wafer cookies. Hand painted creatures using gel colors. No molds were used.

Elke Hoelzle, #161

Mrs. Minnie and young Sparrow Jr. go together to the woods to pick wild strawberries for pie making. 3D cookie display made of gingerbread cookie, decorated with royal icing and fondant. It was then handpainted. Edible details were added, like the rice paper pie recipe and the edible cookie grass.

Martha Rocha, #162

Saint Francis of Assisi cookie. Handpainted and decorated with royal icing. 

Carolyn Buckner, #163

The original theme was Around the World in 80 Cakes, so I naturally thought about hot air balloons. My creation is a cookie puzzle based on a coloring picture in my virtual coloring book.

Kim Partridge, #164, A Little Slice of Heaven

Hope has a Name.

buttercream frosted buttercream spring flowers handmade modeling chocolate cross, textured then dry brushed with petal dust

Cheryl Gaulton, #165, Jammy Jam Cakes

Disney themed cupcake toppers

Jessica Costales, #166

These are my tribal friends that I’ve wanted to create for some time. I’m a huge animal lover so this was definitely fun to create. Everything is made from fondant. The fire is gelatin and the moss is graham crackers. Water is isomalt with fondant rock. Everything is dusted with roxy and rich petal dusts. Cupcakes are dark chocolate with whipped vanilla icing.

Amy Russert, #167, Amy's Cakery

The background cookie is 11.5" x 9.25", covered with white fondant and airbrushed the sky/clouds and the sand hills and grass. There are a few fondant clouds, 4 of the hot air balloons are cookies and are 3D popping away from the background with rice paper balloon designs.