KINGSTON, N.Y. — A Kingston woman who began her culinary path at Ulster County BOCES will have the chance to showcase her baking talents as a contestant on “Summer Baking Championship,” on the Food Network and Discovery+.
Anrika Martin, the owner of Di Sweet Spot by One N Only Cakes, will be one of 10 contestants competing in a series of summer-themed challenges to earn the little of “summer baking champion” and a prize purse of $25,000.
“It was kind of a surreal experience,” Martin said of the competition, which was filmed at the end of January. “It was an amazing experience, and I am so proud of myself for going forward in it.
“It’s something I will never forget,” she said.
Each week throughout the competition, contestants will participate in two challenges. In the “pre-heat challenge,” challengers compete for an advantage in the “main heat” elimination challenge.
To move on in the competition, bakers must impress judges Duff Goldman, Carla Hall, and Damaris Phillips in a series of summer-themed baking challenges that, according to the Food Network, featured “the flavors, ingredients, and celebrations of the season.”
A graduate of the Johnson & Wales University baking and pastry arts program, Martin got her first culinary job at the Sagamore Resort in Bolton Landing. From there, she said, she traveled up and down the East Coast as a pastry cook, an executive pastry chef, and as a research and development pastry chef in Queens, before returning to Kingston, where she opened her own business baking custom cake creations, “One N Only Cakes.”
Martin recently rebranded her business as “Di Sweet Spot by One N Only Cakes,” in order to more accurately reflect the breadth of her offerings, which are inspired by her Caribbean heritage. They include a plethora of desserts, including pies, tarts, and scones, and in the coming weeks, Martin plans to launch her “mobile store,” a dessert trailer that will be available for weddings and other events.
She said she believes her professional experiences helped her do as well as she did on the show, although, under the rules of the competition, Martin is not allowed to say how she fared against the other contestants.
She did say, though, that the judges dubbed her the “flavor queen.”
“I’m going to take that and hold it forever,” she said.
While throughout the competition Martin said she was called on to make a variety of desserts — in the show’s first pre-heat, competitors were tasked with creating a dozen doughnuts that look like water floaties with an added three-dimensional decorated element — she is most passionate about baking cakes.
“I really do love making cakes,” she said. “There’s something about making a cake and decorating it that is very therapeutic to me.
“I just put my headphones on, play some Broadway musicals, and I’m just in the zone,” she said.
“Summer Baking Championship” premieres on the Food Network at 9 p.m. Monday, May 15, with two back-to-back episodes. Episodes can also be streamed on Discovery+.be, available to stream on discovery+.
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