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Put the sifter down for a second Betty Crocker, Four Seasons Scottsdale Pastry Chef Lance Whipple is the new master baker. Chef Whipple competed in the third annual National Association of Catering Executives Confectionary Competition this week and took Best in Show. Whipple and team won with a seven-tier, towering confection of chocolate praline hazelnut crunch cake with a multi-colored fondant icing. The cake was designed with stencil work, hand work on the fondant carnival masks, angled tiers, pulled sugar, cast sugar “feathers,” and airbrushing. The Rio-themed pastry beat out about 20 other entries from bakers at Tammie Coe Cakes, Let Them Eat Cake, The Phoenician, and JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort & Spa, among others.
This is what Whipple and his winning cake looked like:
And just because, this is what they don’t look like:
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