Attleboro Students Roll Out the Fondant for Competition

Students at  Attleboro campus say a competition they entered has been anything, but a piece of cake. 

Educational Pathways for Attleboro Youth (EPAY) students Tyree Quinones, Joan Gonsalves and Kalonie Askew along with their advisors, Karen Miller and Sarah Paille, have spent the last four weeks mixing, rolling and decorating practice cakes for the college's fourth annual Cake Show Competition taking place at BCC's Fall River Campus on Saturday, April 9, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Novice bakers, students and professionals will compete during the cake-off. Miller said the kids have worked hard on the various pieces to their Alice in Wonderland-themed masterpiece cake. For Inones, who aspires to be a chef, it is a great opportunity to learn the ins and outs of cake making.

While Inones and his fellow students have had fun making the teapot, a mini Alice and other pieces of the cake, it has not been easy, he said. 

"We had to reconsider our design of the cake a couple of times because some of the pieces were too big or weighed too much," Quinones said. 

The competition is not all about flour and sugar, but it is about being sweet. The competition is held each year to raise funds for SkillsUSA, a non-profit made that helps trains students for technical and trade jobs. The team is part of BCC's EPAY program.

"EPAY is a wonderful opportunity for youths to come in and earn their GED," Miller said.

Gonsalves couldnt' agree more. "I'm an EPAY because I have two kids," Gonsalves said. "There's no way I can be in the high school. With EPAY if I need to go home because of my kids, I can just go home. 

"I'm going to BCC in the fall for Culinary Arts and pastries and I figured this will be a great jump start."