Hungarian confectioner makes edible Holy family figures

Veronika Magyarné Fekete finished second at the Luxembourg Culinary World cup and used 18 kilograms of ingredients to complete her figures.

The young confectioner has been working as a professional for five years only, but she has already taken part in 22 competitions and won a gold medal at the confectioner Olympics, states Blikk. She spent three weeks to create the Holy family.

The reason why she decided to create the scene in Bethlehem was the imminence of Christmas. She used 6 kg of rice paste, 20 pieces of A4 size wafers, 4.5 kg of flower paste, 8 kg modelling paste and a whole lot of marzipan and food coloring.

“I was really excited, as I could choose the theme myself. It was obvious I will make a fully edible model of the Holy family in Bethlehem,”

said Veronika, who worked more than 250 hours on her wonderful composition. Her hard work payed of: she finished second at the Luxembourg Culinary World cup.

“The main focus of the competitions is to show how one can work with the ingredients. It seems I could finally convinve the jury, although I would not expect such an outstanding result when I took a look at other works. I was very happy to learn I finished second, since I am relatively new to this profession,”