“The top two layers are chocolate with alternate chocolate and cherry filling and butter cream icing while the bottom is an apple-filled white cake- it’s something for everyone,” said Finnegan, who added red ornaments and cartoon characters for decoration.

Kari Litchfield of Franklin created a hand-beaded cake with white chocolate ganoche. “I learned that ganoche tends to bubble,” she said, “but that doesn’t affect the taste and I’ve added two secret ingredients to give mine a surprise.”

A select team of campus judges based their results on taste, as well as appearance:

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137 points Jennifer Wiggins The Gift cake
127 points Aaron Brown Red Flowers
123 points Kari Litchfield Green Beads
114 points Leisha Andrews Greek
112 points Belinda Bryson Spring Flowers
111 points Gabe Finnegan Charlie Brown
94 points Angelia Calangan Purple Flowers	photo not available
Phil Weast, Dean of Student Services & one of the judges

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