Mike Anthony's Remarkable Cakes: 2nd Annual Extreme Cake Competition

So the theme was "A Pastry Chef" and my group, Lindsay Daniel and myself, chose Yannis Janssens. He was just chosen as one of the Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America. After doing some research, and going to the Fontainebleau to meet him, we discovered that he has worked at the Viceroy Hotel, The Setai, and The Ritz Carlton. Instead of doing a cake that he has done, or anything to literal, we tried to include small details from his past, so the cake represented who he

was as a chef. From the top to the bottom - The top is a sugar blown sphere that changed colors because we put a special light on the inside. The top blue tier represent his award. The following black tier is a hexagon and has bamboo on the edges to represent the Asain theme of The Setai. The next white tier has antique paintings of the Ritz logo going around the outside. Hanging in the middle is a sugar pulled spike ball to represent The Viceroy Hotel logo (A Sunburst). The next blue tier has a collection of Common Red Poppy Flowers, the national flower of Belgium, Chef Yannis' home country. The bottom tier represent where Chef Yannis is working now, The Fontainebleau, and has a monogram of his initial going around the rest of the tier. The cake is floating on a bed of truffles to represent Chef Yannis' home country again.

In the end, my team WON!!! We beat out over ten other cakes. This was a huge retribution from last year. My partner and I competed in the last Extreme Cake Competition, and didn't place, so this year, we wanted to show everyone that we could not only place, but win, and