4-H Cake Show

This was our first year in 4-H, and therefore our first cake show. But we heard a lot about it and had many tips from some of our friends who have lots of experience. We baked 10 cakes total (5 for the show and 5 to cut slices out of for the judges). It was quite a whirlwind. The girls did a great job baking and decorating with only a little help from me.

Allia made the cross cake pictured above, which she entered in the decorated cakes category (that one is fierce competition, we found out!). She also made a dairy, egg and nut free spice cake for the "refined cakes" division (which is basically the allergy friendly category where you include the recipe with the cake). Mariana made two cookie cakes. She decorated one with a 4-H theme (another tough category!) and entered the other in the refined cakes division. Gloria is a "Clover Kid" and made an Amaretto cake to enter. There are no categories for the clover kids, so they all compete against each other.
Gloria won 2nd place in Clover kids! She was so excited!

 The auctioneer calls the child's name and briefly describes the cake. The child stands there looking nervous but smiling while the buyers bid. Gloria's cake sold for a very nice price!

 

 Mariana won 2nd place in the refined cakes for her big cookie cake. (that was the category with the least competition, so we may just make all our cakes in that one next year!!!).

We didn't get to stay until the end because it was going pretty long, and our girls were finished with their cakes. So Gloria had to hug her sweet friend who was still waiting to show her pie. Pies were the second to last category to auction, so I was really glad we decided not to do a pie!

The girls are already looking forward to next year!