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Creative Cakes Decorator to Compete in Las Vegas Competition

Ashley Spitzer will take on 11 other decorators in October at the International Baking Industry Exposition. Find out how she earned this chance.

A cake decorator at Creative Cakes bakery in Tinley Park will be competing in a national event next month in Las Vegas.

Ashley Spitzer earned the honor of representing the Chicago area in the three-day International Baking Industry Exposition after winning the grand prize at the Chicago Area Retail Bakers Association's cake decorating contest in March, according to a press release from Creative Cakes.

She won the Chicago competition thanks to three creations: a wedding cake in the shape of a Tiffany lamp, a groom’s cake in the shape of a cuckoo clock, and a small rolled fondant cake topped with a handcrafted shoe made of sugar.

“Ashley is a dynamo," Becky Palermo, co-owner of Creative Cakes stated in the release. "We have no doubt that she is up to the challenge of a national cake decorating competition.”

Spitzer, who graduated from Kendall College and has worked at Creative Cakes since 2006, will compete against 11 other decorators from Oct. 6 to 9.


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