Categories - 2014
Cupcake Award - Sponsored by Katy Sue Designs
Is there someone who is excelling in innovative, beautiful or intricate cupcake decoration? This category is for anyone who has shown real flair or impressive design when presenting their cupcakes. You may nominate a single cupcake or a collection of up to 12 cakes.
Wedding Cake Award - Sponsored by Fondarific
Traditional or modern, chocolate or delicate floral – has anyone’s wedding cake style and decoration caught your eye this year? We really want to know who is the very best-of-the-best in this high pressure and extremely personal genre.
Cookie Award
From hand-painted masterpieces to 3D creations, cookies are a showcase for some amazing decorating and sugarcraft techniques on a biscuit base. So who do you feel deserves recognition for their delightful approach to beautiful biscuits? You may nominate a single designed cookie or a collection of up to 12 cookies.
Novelty Cake Award - Sponsored by Renshaw
This is a broad, but fun, category! This can be any cake that has been carved and NOT your regular geometric shaped cake. With bakers and cake decorators pushing the boundaries of cake every day, we are SURE there must be a cake that has caught your eye and is truly deserving of this award.
Collaboration Award - Sponsored by Doric Cake Craft
With more people immersing themselves into the world of cake, collaborations are a great way of bringing talented groups of people from all over the world together in the name of good cake! Usually based on a theme, or to celebrate a specific event, which collaboration has really caught your attention? You may
nominate collaboration either for the individual awesome pieces created or for the overall visual impact.
NEW Royal Icing Award - Sponsored by Wilton
New for 2014; royal iced decoration is a true art form and thankfully on the rise again. In your eyes, who has helped bring royal icing into the mainstream and dazzled us with their delicate skill and precision?
NEW Modelling Excellence Award - Sponsored by Beau Products
New for 2014, this category recognises the superb decorations created to adorn celebration cakes. Whether it be flowers, a perfect bride and groom or fascinating miniature creations; whose dexterous modelling skills and attention to detail have made you gasp? Nominations can be for modelling skills in any medium that adorns a cake, edible and non-edible.
Personality of the Year Award - Sponsored by Global Sugar Art
The cake world is full of fabulous and fascinating people. Who deserves to get a mention for their awesomeness - friendly advice, sharing of knowledge or doing something fabulous for charity? Who do you think is a credit to our community and why?
Best Magazine Cover Award
This year we changed our branding and presentation - with 6 fabulous Cake Masters Magazine cover stars to choose from so far in 2014, who do you think stole the show in our new format?
NEW for 2014 Best Learning Experience Award
New for 2014; have you taken a class, attended a workshop, or followed an online programme/ tutorial and come away feeling a massive sense of achievement? This category is to identify and congratulate any teacher, school or online resource that delivers real value and skills in an easily accessible way.
NEW for 2014 Best New Product 2014 Award - Sponsored by Hello and...
New for 2014; there have been several new products that have been introduced this year, most of which have allowed us to prepare, decorate and present cakes with more ease or more creative flair! What has been your favourite new product for 2014?
Best Retailer Award
With so many retailers serving our community, which retailer do you feel best serves your needs? Are they the best in terms of affordability, stock, customer service or diversity? This category is open to both online and store based retailers, and is definitely not about being the biggest.
Judges categories - Not open for nomination
NEW for 2014 Life Time Achievement Award
New for 2014, with a lot of new faces in the world of baking and cake decorating, we feel it is important to acknowledge the talented stars who have been bringing us a wealth of knowledge and expertise for years. This award recognises those who have truly helped to shape the industry into what it is today.
NEW for 2014 Cake International Best in Show Award
New for 2014, the judges of the Cake International competitions will be crowning an overall, ultimate BEST IN SHOW CAKE from the past 12 months. (Birmingham 2013, Manchester 2014 and London 2014)
NEW for 2014 Cake International Rising Star Award
We believe in ensuring up and coming talent is given the spotlight it deserves – the Cake International judges will choose a college student or junior class competition award winner who they believe will be a show-stopping star of tomorrow.
