2010 Nickel City Cake Challenge: Wedding in Buffalo
-The first in an ongoing series of exciting competitions for cake artists!
Nickel City Cake Challenge is a live, head-to-head cake decorating competition featuring three of Western New York’s most creative and talented cake artists, a team of professional judges and a whole lot of fun for our audience! Read about it in The Buffalo News!
Congratulations to Tony Concialdi of Panaro’s for winning Feed Your Soul’s first-ever Nickel City Cake Challenge!
Check out the story on Nickel City Cake Challenge: Wedding in Buffalo in the January Wedding issue of Buffalo Spree Magazine -OR- watch a video of the event produced by The Buffalo News!
On the day of the challenge, our hand-selected professional decorators had just two hours to complete a cake that met specific criteria and was in keeping with the theme “Wedding in Buffalo.”
Our decorators were selected from a pool of challengers who submitted applications and sketches to our panel. Selected for their diversity and passion, Nickel City Cake Challenge: Wedding in Buffalo decorators were:
Zilly Rosen of ZillyCakes
Susan Spider of Pumpernick n’ Pastry Shoppe
Tony Concialdi of Panaro’s
We were confident that each decorator would bring their own style, skill set, experience and personality to the challenge, and that they would present our audience with an exhilarating and creative competition–and they did!
Nickel City Cake Challenge was held at Artisan Kitchens & Baths, home of the Nickel City Chef series. In Artisan’s stunning loft showroom, each artist and their assistant worked from one of Artisan’s three $100,000 kitchens in front of a panel of professional judges and a live audience.
During the two hour competition, guests had the opportunity to enjoy our Custom Hot Chocolate Bar & Confectionery Station, view cake decorating demonstrations, sample sweets from our partners Lake Effect Ice Cream and Niagara Popcorn and vote for their favorite cake from the day’s amateur entries.
