Kirkland’s Starry Nights Catering & Gourmet Cakes, which recently appeared on The Food Network, took second place in the big car cake part of the “Cake Challenge!”

As “chef-testants” on the series, Starry Nights competed against three other bakeries to create a demolition derby-themed cake. Starry Nights Catering, owned and managed by Executive Chef Matt Jones, is no newcomer to food TV. Back in 2007, he appeared on The Travel Channel’s “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations” when it filmed its Pacific Northwest episode.

For this challenge, Starry Nights pastry chefs Heather Freier and Paul Quinn created two separate cakes themed after a demolition derby. One cake is a super-sized demo derby car, and the other is a smaller remote controlled cake car to compete in an actual cake demolition derby.

Starry Nights Catering & Events is located in Kirkland. For information, call 425-284-2479.