Grinnell Hy-Vee’s Heather Krumm takes the cake

​   Heather Krumm, one of the Grinnell Hy-Vee cake designers, has won the Hy-Vee Extreme Cake Challenge. Her winning design was of a black wedding-style cake with red trim and bright yellow candles with red flames that looked lit. “I did a celebration design,” said Heather. “I used black to make it look like the candles are glowing.” Heather advanced to the final round after finishing in third place in the semi-final round in late November. She was going against cake designers from across Hy’Vee’s eight-state region. She received 1,798 votes in the finals on Hy-Vee’s Facebook page, making her this year’s winner. Heather has worked at Hy-Vee since 2011 and is a self-taught cake designer. She received $1,000 for her winning design.