Sweet deal: Sault girl wins cake after winning design contest hosted by local baker

Seven-year-old Adia Ingram, who hosts online drawing tutorials, received a vanilla chocolate chip cake with pink frosting made by Jeannette Orazietti of Sugar

Seven-year-old Adia Ingram of Sault Ste. Marie recently received a fresh, sweet and colourful cake for herself and her family after submitting a winning design in a cake design contest for children hosted by local baker Jeannette Orazietti.

Orazietti is the owner/operator of Sugar, a popular downtown bakery.

“We received an email from Jeannette telling Adia that she had won her age category. Adia was beyond thrilled and we invited a handful of her friends and her sister’s friends to come over and enjoy the cake she had won,” said Adia’s mother, Danae Ingram.

Ingram is the Project Manager of Village Media’s Content Studio.

“We love Sugar and go there regularly to buy teacher gifts and Christmas cookies and we follow Jeannette’s Instagram accounts,” Ingram said. “When she announced the contest, I knew my girls would love to enter. Adia had created a few different designs before we submitted the winner and we spent a lot of time trying to decide on her favorite. It was pink with green vines and lots of little bugs.”

“I felt really happy!” Adia said. SooToday. “I didn’t know if I was going to win, so it was a nice surprise. We had a movie night to watch the new Descendants movie and we all had a part of it.

“Sometimes my mother buys me cake mixes and I make them myself, except for the parts that need to be baked. My favourite thing to bake is brownies,” says Adia, who loves to draw and paint.

“It was really rewarding for me to see the look on her face when she came to pick him up,” said baker Jeannette Orazietti.

The cake designed by Adia and baked by Orazietti had pink frosting and was covered with images of butterflies, a bumblebee and green vines.

It had vanilla and chocolate chip filling.

“It was pretty cool to be able to take this little 2D sketch that Adia did and turn it into a 3D cake. I love that she put so much emphasis on the details of the greenery, the vines and the leaves. With the little people she attached to it, it was really cute. It felt like something my daughter would have drawn when she was little,” Orazietti said.

“When we received the email announcing her win, Adia felt a lot of pride and excitement, but it also created something really special between her and her sister Blythe. Blythe (who is nine) immediately mirrored the same excitement and congratulated Adia, telling her how proud she was. They are sisters like any other and they have their moments, but we always talk about being a team and cheering each other on, so it was really cool to see her instantly celebrate with Adia,” Ingram said.

Baker Orazietti posted a series of Instagram Stories while she was making the cake and Adia enjoyed watching it take shape.

“She didn’t see the finished cake until she got to the bakery and she just fell in love with it. It was a really fun experience all around,” Ingram said.

“Adia loves all things arts and crafts. She makes a lot of YouTube videos and then creates her own characters from them. Her room is decorated with several of these drawings. She also recently made her own drawing tutorial with her dad and shared it with her class before school let out for the summer,” Ingram added.

“I decided to have a cake-making contest for kids because I’m always trying to inspire creativity in kids. When I was in high school, art wasn’t really promoted as a career. I try to get kids interested in art at a young age so they know that it can actually be a career when they’re older, besides just having fun,” Orazietti said.

Noting that there are several cooking and baking shows on television that parents and their children enjoy watching, Orazietti shared on social media that she is hosting a cake design competition for two age groups.

These age groups were 6 to 10 years old and 11 to 14 years old.

Adia was the winner in her age category.

Orazietti announced the contest in May, gave the young artists/contestants plenty of time to perfect their designs, chose the winners in June and presented them with their winning cakes in July.

Orazietti said he received about 20 applications.

This summer marked Orazietti’s first cake design contest, with the baker saying she now plans to host one for Sault youth every year.

Sugar opened at 765 Queen St. E. Unit 203 in 2023 and grew out of the original Jeannette’s Custom Cakes which was based out of Orazietti’s home for several years.

“For me, it’s much more than baking,” Orazietti said of his profession and business.

“That’s how it started, but now it’s become a community engagement. We love donating to small teams and helping other businesses. The title of business owner is a great title that I’m very, very proud of. Seeing what we’ve done since day one and seeing what we have now is a great feeling.”

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