It depends on the judge for one but it also has to do with the category. If its in the wedding cake competition that your allowed to use dummys as long as it can be recreated in cake. If your doing a sculpted category, you have to make sure that most of the cake is cake carved. If you do the entire thing out of RKT then you will be disqualified or told that it wont even be considered.
I did a sculpted cake last year and used some RKT for the head and arms and one of the comments from the judges is that I used too much RKT that it should of been more cake.
But from the competition I usually enter in, they usually have the same judges every year and they tend to have a certain way they judge. You tend to notice after a few years of entering what a particular judge seems to like and dislike. I know in the wedding cake one, they seem to like to keep the classic look with just updated techinques. Hope that helps!
I did a sculpted cake last year and used some RKT for the head and arms and one of the comments from the judges is that I used too much RKT that it should of been more cake.
But from the competition I usually enter in, they usually have the same judges every year and they tend to have a certain way they judge. You tend to notice after a few years of entering what a particular judge seems to like and dislike. I know in the wedding cake one, they seem to like to keep the classic look with just updated techinques. Hope that helps!
