Bengaluru trio win cake-sculpting title in Australia

A jallikattu bull and its tamer, shaped in cake and chocolate, earned Bengaluru’s Anna Austin, Arati Mirji and Samie Ramachandran the World’s Best Extreme Cake Sculptors title in Queensland.

The trio represented India at the International Cake Show Australia 2026, hosted by the Australian Cake Artists Decorators Association. They placed first ahead of teams from Australia, Japan and Taiwan with their response to the Adventure theme.

The team had 12 hours across two days to build the roughly 1.5-metre sculpture, which had to contain at least two-thirds edible material. Austin worked on the faces and legs; Ramachandran made the bodies; and Mirji handled details including bells, flowers and colour.

They used about 60 kg of modelling chocolate, 20 kg of white-chocolate ganache, and around 15 kg each of rice crispies and marshmallows. The colder weather made the chocolate set faster than expected, so the team altered its second-day plan and used paint rollers rather than airbrushes. They finished with 30 minutes left.