Let them beat cake: Eaters take on icy challenge at Dover bakery

By Logan B. Anderson
Posted 10/5/21

DOVER – Two Canadians came to Delaware to conquer a frigid challenge – an ice cream cake from Tiffanee & Co. Bakery in Dover.

On Tuesday afternoon, food influencers and YouTubers …

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Let them beat cake: Eaters take on icy challenge at Dover bakery

ScottEats, left, and Joel Hansen, right, take on an ice cream cake challenge at Tiffanee & Co. Bakery in Dover.
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DOVER  — Two Canadians came to Delaware to conquer a frigid challenge — an ice cream cake from Tiffanee & Co. Bakery in Dover.

On Tuesday afternoon, food influencers and YouTubers Joel Hansen and Scott Watkins sidled up to a 16-and-a-half-pound chocolate, vanilla and strawberry confection colossus made of alternating layers of cake and ice cream covered in a whipped icing.

Their goal was to eat the entire cake in less than 40 minutes.

Mr. Hansen and Mr. Watkins recently set out on a food tour of the U.S. and chose the Shoppes of Hamlet bakery as one of their stops. Next they are headed to Connecticut to take on a sandwich. They film their culinary adventures for their YouTube channels — YouTube.com/Scott Eats and YouTube.com/Joel Hansen.

“There is no real strategy for something like this. It’s a cake and you eat it,” Mr. Hansen said.

When asked how they would deal with the inevitable ice cream headache, the two replied that they would “power through it.”

Mr. Watkins offered that he’d try not to let the frozen parts of the cake spend a lot of time on the roof of his mouth.

Before they began their mission, the pair surrounded themselves with bottles and cups of water to aid them in the cake’s consumption.

At about 3 p.m. on Tuesday, the Canadian cake crushers set a timer and started their attack.

The YouTubers survived their challenge. Armed with spoons and napkins, Mr. Hansen and Mr. Watkins defeated the ice cream cake in 21 and a half minutes.

Tiffanee Blackwell, co-owner of Tiffanee & Co. Bakery, is no stranger to cake trials, as she was a contestant on Food Network’s “Cake Wars.”

The bakery, which she owns with her husband James, recently opened at the shopping center on the corner of McKee and Walker roads. She formerly had a bakery in downtown Dover.

“We love it here. There is a lot of traffic and great parking,” Ms. Blackwell said.

When the YouTube creators reached out and proposed their cake challenge idea, Ms. Blackwell thought it would be a good opportunity to showcase her store.

“A lot of people don’t know that we make specialty cakes,” Ms. Blackwell said.

Along with ice cream cakes, she’s made turtle-shaped and Rubik’s Cube-shaped cakes.

“People come in and think we just do cupcakes. We can do any kind of cake you want,” Ms. Blackwell said.

The Dover-based store ships their confections near and far, added Ms. Blackwell.

Along with cookies, pumpkin bread, cupcakes and other human desserts, Tiffanee & Co. even offers dog treats.

Ms. Blackwell is happy to be back in her own bakery. During the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, she had to take a job working for someone else.

“I had to get a regular job. I was a bakery department manager in a grocery store,” she said. “I’m not really sure if I would have survived that.”

Tiffanee & Co. Bakery is open Monday through Saturday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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