A Marana cake decorator made her mother’s story front-page news
Judy Boren, left, holds up the cake her daughter, Jalene Stradling, made to win first place in the Beyond the Image award in the Kroger Cake Challenge. Stradling works as a cake decorator at the Fry’s Supermarket at 11350 W. Tangerine Rd in Marana, Ariz. on August 26, 2026. The theme was to showcase a hero and Stradling chose to honor her mother with a newspaper article.
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Jalen Stradling, a cake decorator at the Fry’s Food Store in Gladden Farms, created a winning newspaper cake while representing the Fry’s division at the National Kroger Cake Challenge in Cincinnati earlier this month.
Jalen Stradling, a cake decorator at the Fry’s Food Store in Gladden Farms, created a winning newspaper cake while representing the Fry’s division at the National Kroger Cake Challenge in Cincinnati earlier this month.
From a distance, Jalene Stradling’s cake looked like a stack of newspapers tied together wit…
