Sweet rivalry plays out in Food Network’s ‘Sugar Dome’

Revenge is sweet, but so is victory for the diverse experts who create the most stunning works of food art in “Sugar Dome,” a new competitive reality series premiering Sunday, Nov. 25, on Food Network. Each episode finds three teams composed of artists from different disciplines competing to create breathtaking works with an edible component. On each team, cake designers, sugar artists and/or chocolatiers collaborate with a third partner ranging from a graffiti artist to a muralist to a pyrotechnics expert, with their results judged by cake designer Paulette Goto, pastry chef Pichet Ong and a third rotating guest judge.

“When I was told about the premise, I was so excited because this really has not been done before,” Goto says. “Yes, there have been the standard pastry and cake competitions on TV, but this is not like anything you’ve

•What kind of “twists”do the teams have to tackle?

One twist on an episode was they had to make something move. It kind of blew my mind how much thought and work the producers had put into the show in terms of making sure that each twist in each episode related in some way to the theme of that episode.

•What got you started baking?

My mom is a paranoid schizophrenic hoarder, and she would hoard food as well, so I sort of had to scavenge for my own survival. I was 9 years old when I made my first loaf of bread,