For the third consecutive year, Mix and Selecta Chocolates, brands of the Brazilian multinational Duas Rodas that operate in the confectionery and chocolates, sponsor the Cake Awards, the main artistic confectionery event in Brazil.
The award’s mission is to reveal new talents across the country and value the work of professionals working in confectionery and chocolate. With almost five thousand entries, the 2023 edition will take place on March 5th and will be broadcast live, directly from the studio set up on Boulevard JK, in São Paulo.
Considered the Oscar of Brazilian confectionery, the Cake Awards 2023 will reveal the winners of the 12 categories: Children’s Cake, Commemorative Cake, Wedding Cake, Cream Cake, Sculpted Cake, Themed Cake, Decorated Biscuit, Biscuit Composition, Sugar Flower, Modeling , Painting on Cakes and Unpublished Cake.
Unpublished cake
The “Cake of the Year Cake Awards” category is the main prize of the event and therefore will have the special participation of Mix ambassador and pastry chef, Beca Milano. The category has a specific theme, this year it is “Animation Classics”, and cakes made especially for the award. The big winner will receive the trophy directly from the hands of chef Beca Milano and will be automatically invited to be part of the Cake Awards academy, being a judge and presenter at the event.
“More than technique and products, confectionery involves emotion, dreams and memories. And that’s precisely why our partnership with Beca as an ambassador for Mix has been so successful. It represents this enchanted world of colors and flavors that make our lives sweeter. And nobody better than Beca to represent Mix in the delivery of the main prize of the Cake Awards, which is the materialization of all this”, explains the Marketing Manager of Duas Rodas, Luiz Aguiar.
Red Carpet
On the day of the awards (March 5th), starting at 7 pm, guests will be able to follow the sponsors, participants and judges – in real time – as they walk down the red carpet. In addition, you can also check out interviews with some Cake Awards 2022 winners. The event organizers are nationally recognized cake designers Rick Zavala and Luiz Toledo.
Mix and Beca Milano
Highlights of the Brazilian confectionery, Mix and Beca Milano renewed their exclusive partnership and the chef remains as the brand’s ambassador in 2023. transformers, that is, micro and small local entrepreneurs, throughout the country.
The day after the Cake Awards, the Mix ambassador goes straight to Porto Alegre to participate in the SugarCake event, where she will present the lecture “How to surprise in the confectionery”.
With a degree in Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Beca decided to apply all of her chemical knowledge to confectionery. In 2012, she entered the segment with her head and graduated in Pâtisserie and Boulangerie. After that, there were countless courses in the most diverse areas of confectionery until she specialized in sugar and chocolate decoration techniques.
The Mix ambassador, in addition to being a pastry chef, is a judge on the reality show Bake Off Brasil.
About Two Wheels
Present in more than 40 countries, Duas Rodas has been operating for 97 years in the manufacture of flavors and ingredients for the food and beverage industries in Brazil and worldwide. With more than 10,000 customers, the company has a portfolio of around 3,000 items divided into three major markets: Flavors, with aromas, natural extracts, dehydrated products, condiments and additives and integrated solutions; the Food Service, with ice cream, chocolate, confectionery and bakery products, with the Specialitá, Selecta and Mix brands; and Animal Nutrition, with animal nutrition ingredients from the Statera brand.
A Brazilian leader in the manufacture of aromas and products for the food and beverage industry, Duas Rodas was founded by German immigrants in Santa Catarina, where its main headquarters are still operating today.
The company currently has two other factories in Brazil (Sergipe and São Paulo), three in Latin America (Chile, Colombia and Mexico), in addition to seven research and development centers and an Innovation Center. Sustainability is one of the company’s strategies, which have products with international Kosher, Halal, Organic Products and Fair for Life certifications, in addition to FSSC 22000 and SMETA.
