As László Zila, one of the greatest and most innovative Hungarian confectioners put it: the jury saw high quality jobs only. Take, for instance, the Korean masterpiece that formed a 3D portrait of a tiger placed inside of a burnt sugar ball, literally confuting the principles of gravity.
Most of the competitors built their ideas upon general stereotypes towards their homeland, like the Dutch girl with her windmill-form chocolate cake, topped with marzipan clogs. The Swedish competitor turned to the Northern light, while one of the Brazilian contestants chose love and passion to be the best possible theme and consequently presented a composition of “sweet kissing lips.”
The jury was very much impressed by one of the German project entitled “Fashion,” which took the form of little decadent lady in a lilac hat. Another fine piece of artwork was the Japanese sculpture of a Phoenix made of sugar. Nikolett Tapaszti’s choice was an Indonesian idol of chocolate. Enikő Lestár on the other hand chose the utterly Hungarian folk character Ludas Matyi with geese made of marzipan.
It turned out in the evening who scored the most points in the contest. It is a pity that the Hungarians only got the 13th and 14th places but maybe next time, we will see. And the results are:
The winners of the Confectioners Junior World Cup in 2010, in Hungary:
1st Prize: Ms. Angelika Huber (Germany)
2nd Prize: Mr. Taisuke Endo (Japan)
3rd Prize: Mr. Tatsunori Masaki (Japan)
