{"id":108117,"date":"2019-12-17T13:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T23:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=108117"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T18:40:57","slug":"maui-kings-cake-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/12\/17\/maui-kings-cake-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Maui culinary students win cake contest with local flavors"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Baking students and their cakes ahead of the King\u2019s Hawaiian Product Development Competition (Photo credit: UH<\/abbr> Maui College Culinary Arts Program)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For many weeks and countless hours, baking students at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Maui College Culinary Arts Program<\/a> dreamt up, put down on paper, baked, revised, baked again and decorated original recipe cakes to compete in a product development competition sponsored by the iconic company King\u2019s Hawaiian.<\/p>\n

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Chocolate Kona Coffee Fruit Cake (Photo credit: UH<\/abbr> Maui College Culinary Arts Program)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The students were charged with creating three-layer, refrigerated cakes “made of sweet, soft based cake sponges with light, sweet creamy fillings. The cakes and decorations must be durable enough to stay intact through delivery to grocery stores, display and customers transport home.” And, of course, they needed to highlight Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> flavors and ingredients.<\/p>\n

In the end, after five judges (all UH<\/abbr> Maui College Culinary Arts Baking alumni) tasted 10 delicious and beautiful cakes in two categories—Tropical and Chocolate—they unanimously chose Amber Kalish<\/strong>\u2019s POG<\/abbr> Cake and Dana Lynn Soriano<\/strong>\u2019s Chocolate Kona Coffee Fruit Cake. Each winner was awarded $1,000 from King\u2019s Hawaiian.<\/p>\n

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POG<\/abbr> Cake (Photo credit: UH<\/abbr> Maui College Culinary Arts Program)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leading the judge\u2019s panel was UH<\/abbr> Maui College Culinary Arts Alumnus Pastry Chef Jeremy Choo<\/strong>. He is now the innovation pastry chef\u2014Office of Hawaiian Foods for King\u2019s Hawaiian. “We\u2019ve done these kinds of competitions before at [Kapiʻolani<\/span> Community College] and I was thrilled to be able to bring this one to Maui,” he says.<\/p>\n

Jordan Frank, King\u2019s Hawaiian director of product development and innovation also traveled to Maui for the competition from the company\u2019s headquarters in Los Angeles. He was duly impressed and explained that there is certainly a chance that the winning concepts or a component or components of one of those concepts might find their way into a future King\u2019s Hawaiian commercial product.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> Maui College Culinary Arts Program Director and Pastry Chef Teresa Shurilla<\/strong> and Pastry Chef Instructor Hannah Stanchfield<\/strong> shepherded their students through the process and were extremely proud of all of them. “All the participating students came up with such imaginative concepts and worked so hard to bring them to life on the cake plates!” says Shurilla. “As I always say, friendly competition is a great motivator.”<\/p>\n

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From left, Hannah Stanchfield, Amber Kalish, Jeremy Choo and Teresa Shurilla (Photo credit: UH<\/abbr> Maui College Culinary Arts Program)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baking students at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Maui College Culinary Arts Program constructed original cake recipes for the King’s Hawaiian cake competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,377,344,660,60],"class_list":["post-108117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-culinary","tag-culinary-arts-program","tag-maui-culinary-academy","tag-student-recognition","tag-maui-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t