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COMPLETE WINNERS LIST
 

Bakery Name

City

State

Grand
Prize

Tina's Cake
Emporium

Windsor
Locks

CT

1st Prize

Stone House Cakery
And Café

Taneytown

MD

1st Prize

The Perfect Day
Cakes & Bakery

Owatonna

MN

2nd Prize

Morsels Espresso &
Edibles

Traverse City

MI

2nd Prize

Baked! By Camille

Endicott

NY

2nd Prize

Capri Cakes

Bronx

NY

2nd Prize

A Piece Of Cake

Villas

NJ

2nd Prize

Dibartolo Bakery

Collingwood

NJ

2nd Prize

Homestyle Bakery

Antioch

TN

2nd Prize

The Bald Strawberry
Bakery & Café

Melbourne

FL

2nd Prize

Mickey's Cakes &
Sweets

Little Rock

AR

2nd Prize

Nostalgia House
Bakery

Port Orchard

WA

2nd Prize

Sweet Cakes By
Rachael

Peoria

IL

her small town. "The best one so far had to be the pirate ship

plans to use the money to paint them in order to upgrade

cake I did for a young girl's 10th birthday," she recalls of a

their downtown and give more visibility to the shop. "When

favorite memory. "I designed it with her and her parents and

opening the bakery, I knew that quality cakes and great

when they came to pick it up we surprised her with it and

decorating weren't enough. You have to run it as a business,"

the smile on her face couldn't have gotten any bigger if we

admits Thea Farrington of Perfect Day Cakes. "Next, this is

tried.  Her eyes lit up and a smile went from ear to ear and then

a relationship business, especially in a small town. Another

some. That feeling I get really warms my heart and that's when

item that I think helps my success is I genuinely want to make

I know I've succeeded.'

people's lives better. This includes my customers, employees
and my community."

First Prize: The Perfect Day Cakes & Bakery, Owatonna,
Minnesota

First Prize: Stone House Cakery and Café, Taneytown, Maryland

The bakery is run by Thea, Eric and Tatiana Farrington. It is just

At Stone House, love is the ﬁrst ingredient, literally. One day,

the three of them running the only bakery in their small country

owner Lois Trout created a new ﬂavored cupcake to sell at the

town. Tatiana, Thea and Eric's 11-year-old daughter just recently

farmers' market and decided to hide "love" in the ingredient

saved up all of her tip money to invest back in the bakery by

statement, ﬁguring no one ever reads the label. By the end of

opening up a mini candy shop inside. The bakery offers many

the day, that cupcake outsold every other ﬂavor. The buyers

items, but most impressive was the 150 different ﬂavors of

asked why one was made with love and the others were not.

gourmet sized cupcakes they offer.

From that day on, love has always been ﬁrst. In tears, Trout
shared that she now has the money to purchase a refrigerated

One favorite is Thea's Mountain Dew cupcake with Bavarian

cake case. They currently only have a candy case and have

cream ﬁlling, cream cheese icing, topped with crushed Doritos.

to store their cakes in chest freezers. She will now be able to

They bakery has gorgeous, large front windows. They have

increase her walk-in business.

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