1. Best Pastries/Finger Foods

This category honors innovative collections of pastries and small chops.

2. Dessert Master

This category is for impressive design/display and creative decorations for individual and collections of dessert cakes.

3. Top Shop

Running a profitable cake shop is a herculean task. From creative yummies, top class presentation to paying/training staff, this category recognizes well run cake shops all over the world.

4. Best Bread Bakery

This category recognizes the best run Bread Bakeries and an outstanding baker of breads

5. Best Media Outlet

The media outlet that best promoted baking and bakers in the course of the year

6. Best Cake Publication

This award recognizes the best Cake oriented publication from November 2023 to October 2024.

7. Best Cake Blog

There are many blogs that have helped us learn how to decorate beautiful cakes. This award celebrates your favorite blog; the blog that has helped you decorate better cakes or has helped you master a new skill or technique. To be decided by online voting

8. Best Promoter

This category recognizes the personality that best represents the interests of bakers in the media

9. Best Retailer

With so many retailers serving our community, this award recognizes the retailer who is best serving our needs in terms of stock, customer service, quality and variety. This category is open to both exhibition, store based and online retailers worldwide.

10. Product Of The Year

This award recognizes the product that Bakers love using, maybe new or old, a tool or ingredient that you just can’t live without.

11. Best Technical Partner

The company/individual that produces/supplies/repairs baking equipment with excellent service

12. Best Cake Charity

The company/individual that has extended help to the needy and created goodwill through baking

13. Best Cake Group

This category celebrates your favorite bakers group that has helped you express yourself and exposed you to new skills or technique. This category will be decided by a panel of Judges during a friendly online contest

14. Best In Diaspora

This category is to recognize the outstanding talent, creativity and contributions of Bakers in any country different from their country of origin or Bakers based abroad but making huge impacts back home.

15. Best Modeling

This category recognizes the baker that has impressed us with superb modeling techniques, decorations created to adorn celebration cakes; be it a perfect figure modeling or impressive miniature creations.

16. Outstanding Performance (Female)

Female baker who continues to motivate, never gives up and keeps making success where others see challenges

17. Outstanding Performance (Male)

Male baker who continues to motivate, never gives up and keeps making success where others see challenges

18. Best Use of Color

This category celebrates the one whose use of color best suits the overall presentation

19. Best Wedding Cake

This category recognizes the very best in this highly competitive and personal genre, whether it be traditional tiered works or something different. It includes Proposal, Introduction, Engagement, White Wedding and Anniversary Cakes

20. Best Learning Experience

This category is to identify and congratulate any baking knowledge resource center that delivers real value and skills in an accessible and impactful way.

21. Cake Crush

The cake world is full of fabulous, creative and fascinating people. Pick your celebrity cake crush, the baker that has made good use of social media

22. Cake Brand Ambassador

The baker that has taken their craft all over the world and best symbolizes the industry in skill, presentation and personality

23. Best Novelty Cake

Any cake that has been carved or sculpted and is not the regular geometric shape. A baker who used their imagination and pushed the boundaries of convention.

24. Best Traditional Cake

This is for cakes with a cultural or traditional twist, depicting any cultural group and relatable to specific ethnicities anywhere in the world

25. Best Cake Show

Exhibitions, Seminars, Showcases are a great way of bringing talented cake artists from all over the country together in the name of showing amazing cakes! They are usually based on a theme or a platform set up by an individual or group/company to hold a specific themed event and can be nominated for their overall visual impact and organizational prowess. To be decided by social media votes

26. Best In Show

The overall, ultimate BEST IN SHOWCASE from November 2023 to date. To recognize the outstanding talent, creativity and courage needed to create a show-stopping piece. Whether it was made for an exhibition or a PR stunt, this category features show pieces that push the boundaries of edible art in a huge way

27. Double Duty

This category is to recognize and celebrate a baker who also has
a full time job practicing a different profession

28. Cake of the Year

Which cake blew your mind this year?

29. Next Rated Baker

This award celebrates the one baker who others need to look out for. A star that is set to shine brighter based on originality of their designs

30. Best Content Creator

This award recognizes the creative works of social media content creators who motivate, inspire, teach, entertain and have impacted positively on Bakers

31. Best Role Model

Who is your hero/mentor. Who motivates you the most in this business?

32. Top Baker Ten: 

This category celebrates young bakers who seeks to showcase their creative skills and become a leading brand in the industry. This category will be decided by a panel of Judges during a friendly online contest.

33. Baker Of The Year

An award celebrating the person who most inspires and is ready to support upcoming bakers, that is always ready to provide solutions and responds to messages with positive or constructive feedback, who makes you remember that your skill is worth something. The individual that has dedicated his or her life to promoting the profession through multiple platforms

MERIT AWARD

Award segment of 3 categories conferred on merit for outstanding cake tutors, vendors and entrepreneurs. No voting involved.

Presented in collaboration with leading industry blog, Cake Vendors Connect.