Sweet sweet somethings.......and the capricious ice-cream

There's nothing like a competition with a little drama, especially if the main star behaves somewhat erratically and throws up tantrums.
Enter Miss Movenpick, but the Ice-Cream (!) - imported and represented by ISPC, which was the main ingredient of the Dessert category, the final leg of the Seychelles Tourism Academy 2009 Culinary Competition. 
By the time the dishes went to the photographers and the judging panel, some parts of the dishes were beginning to have a mind of their own - offloading a strawberry here, making an unintended creamy pool there.
But luckily the sun was not beating down as hard as in the past two days, and things held up pretty well.
The elaborate creation of Verma Agricole from Le Meridien Fisherman's Cove (below) seduced the eyes and palates of the jury the most and earned her first prize and a trip to Singapore.

Second was Eric Bacco, from Round Island Praslin. 

Yane Ladouceur from Hilton Seychelles 

took third place,

                                                            

leaving Marcus Freminot, from

the Seychelles Tourism Academy

in fourth place,

                                

and Cindy Lepathy from 

Four Seasons Resort in fifth.