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WINN
NING PROM
MOTIONS

crowning

achievement

For 25 years, Kerry Vincent carried the torch for the Oklahoma
State Sugar Art Show, held annually in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The 2018
event proved a crowning achievement, with a record $482,225 in
prizes ($106,125 in cash and $376,100 in product). And then to the
sad surprise of many, Vincent, the event's organizer, announced
that this would be the final curtain for her show.
"The theme for 2019 is, there is no theme," she announced
during the event's final day on Sept. 30. "For a few seconds I waited and watched the wheels turn. Contestants believed there was
an open 'choose what you like' theme. Then I announced, 'The
curtain is coming down on the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show.'
There were floods of tears and disbelief and to this day I receive
calls from shattered emotional contestants."
If one cake is a feast then the Grand National Wedding Cake
Competition and the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show is surely a
banquet, Vincent said.
High profile sugar artists from across the globe staged another
amazing showcase, glittering sugar magic with a combination of
inspired design and technical expertise. Cakes beautifully crafted
reached majestic heights of design.
Grand prize winner Susan Trianos of Brampton, Ontario, Canada, won $32,000 in cash and $20,009 in product for her elegant
blue and white design inspired by the 2018 theme: "I am a modern
classic."
She runs Learn to Cake with Susan Trianos, an online school
with 24-hour access to video tutorials on cake decorating, baking,
cookies, and all things sweet.
"Throughout my 24 years in this profession, through all of
my transitions, I've continued to make custom cakes for a vast
number of clients," Trianos says. "I've made cakes for movies,
billboards, ads and television shows."

GRAND PRIZE
Susan Trianos
$32,000 Cash
$20,009 Product
1ST RUNNER UP
Bryson Perkins
$25,575 Cash
$13,665 Product
2ND RUNNER UP
Chrissie Boon
$15,000 Cash
$10,507 Product

Susan Trianos created
the grand prize winning
cake design at the Grand
National Wedding Cake
Competition in Tulsa.

ORANGE CRUNCH CAKE
General Mills Foodservice announces that
Dennis Chan, chef and owner of Blue Bamboo in Jacksonville, Florida, is the Grand
Prize Winner in the 4th Annual Neighborhood to Nation™ Recipe Contest, which
celebrates independent family or "neighborhood" restaurants and food trucks and the
one-of-a-kind dishes that reflect their local

flavor. Chan's recipe for Sunshine State Orange Crunch Cake has earned him the Grand
Prize package that includes $30,000 cash,
plus $5,000 for a local charity and a three-day
trip for two to the Food Network & Cooking
Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival in October.
His award-winning dish, inspired by

Florida's state fruit, is an orange cake that
includes Gold Medal™ Yellow Cake layers moistened with an orange sauce then
stacked between alternating layers of airy
pineapple cream cheese icing and crisp
baked Pillsbury's Best™ Puff Pastry Dough
for a luscious creamy, crunchy Napoleon-style textured dessert.

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