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SLCC Edible Books Contest

Find information about current and past Edible Books Contests, which are hosted by the SLCC Libraries.
Thanks to everyone for the beautiful entries and the fun afternoon!

Congratulations to the 2018 winners:

  • Most Artistic: “The Little Prince” by Mila Beaujon
  • Most Edible: “If You Give a Wild Animal Food...” by Steffani Ouimette
  • Most Humorous: “Jurassic Park” by Anthony Webster
  • Most Literary: “Inkheart” by Sadie Holbrook
  • People’s Choice: “The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear” by Brontë Mock

Thanks to the 2018 judges:

  • Rob Adamson (Visual Art & Design Faculty)
  • Aimee Alitzer (Community Culinary Judge, Flourish Bakery)
  • Melissa Helquist (English Faculty & Director of the Community Writing Center)
  • Suzanne Mozdy (Associate Dean, Mathematics)
  • Nathan Williams (Student Senate, Central Region)

And a special thanks to Chef Cynthia Alberts for encouraging many of the contestants to enter, safely transporting most of the entries to the library, and helping cut and serve the cake with some of her students!

If you missed this year's event, we plan to repeat it next year. Check out the photos below for a sampling of our entries.

2018 Winners and some of the Entries

Very Hungry Caterpillar

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

tortoise and hare cake

Aesop's Fables: The Tortoise and the Hare

Don Quixote cake

Don Quixote

Peter pan cake

Never Grow Up: Peter Pan

Dr Seuss cake

Dr Seuss 1st Birthday

Dr Suess cake green eggs and ham

Dr. Seuss One Fish, Two Fish, Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs & Ham

Cookie pancake mouse cake

If You Give a Wild Animal Food (Mouse/cookie, Pig/pancake, Moose/muffin)

WINNER! Most Edible

Cat in the hat braille book cake

Cat in the Hat (Book title in Braille)

Turtle cake

I'll Follow the Moon

Harry potter cake

Harry Potter

Cake that looks like a book

Inkheart

Troll and rainbow cake

Trolls

mouse and strawberry on a cake

The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear

WINNER! People's Choice

spider on cake

Charlotte's Web

tree bark cake

The Giving Tree

fish on cake

Rainbow Fish

star wars themed cake

Star Wars

dinosaur on cake

Inspired by Jurassic Park