Local baker competing in popular contest

Châteauguay resident Heidi Crux loves to bake cakes. With a little encouragement from family and friends, she decided to enter an international online competition that will crown “The Greatest Baker”. Thanks to the votes she has earned thus far, Ms. Crux is paving her way to the semi-finals. Designing cakes is first and foremost about doing something she loves. “With the pandemic, I have been working from home with a lot of time on my hands, so I just kept baking and designing cakes to keep me busy. I never dreamed I would enter a contest,” she recounted. Her family and friends were so sure of her culinary and artistic talent that they convinced her to enter “The Greatest Baker” competition. It’s an online contest that awards the grand prize winner $10,000, an article in Bake From Scratch magazine and a chance to spend a day with the President of StuffPuffs, a company that makes chocolate-filled marshmallow desserts. Because this is an online contest and participants can enter from all over the world, judges cannot actually taste the culinary works of art. It’s more a like a popularity contest where people can visit the website and vote on a daily basis. To date, the Châteauguay resident has made it into the top 5 of the 43 participants in her group. If she can reach first place and hold on to the lead until Friday, she will move on to the semifinals. “It has been overwhelming receiving the support of friends and family and even strangers who have been voting every day in order for me to advance,” Crux admitted. “At this point, because of them, I need to see this through to the end regardless if I win or not. I can’t thank all of them enough!” To vote for Heidi Crux. (Translation Amanda Bennett)