COMPETITOR

Sweet Perfection

HEAD COOK: Diane Roark

COMPETITION: World Dessert Championship

Diane Roark has been competing yearly since 2017 at the World Food Championships. She has six top ten finishes, five of them being in the top 5, and three rare perfect scores. She’s a best-selling author and mother of five adult children. She is a native of Mobile, Alabama. Diane and her husband have called Arkansas home for the past 16 years. She has been working as a Sam's/Walmart Super Chef since 2017. Diane spends her week selling her baked goods. Her memoir, Heartaches to Blessings, tells the intensely riveting story of how Diane grew up with an alcoholic mother, and how she has a special needs son who underwent seventeen brain surgeries and died twice in her arms. The story doesn’t end in heartache. Diane shares the raw details and blessings each year she competed at the World Food Championships, WFC. Heartaches to Blessings is about finding God’s blessings amid difficult circumstances. It’s about how one woman ultimately found God’s love in the journey of forgiveness, healing, hope, and joy. Diane is on a mission to help change the world with her cookbook, The Cookbook To Help Change The World. In her book, Diane has provided you with quick and easy five-ingredient recipes to get your meals on the table faster, so you spend more time bonding with your family and less time cooking for them. Her cookbook, Dessert Champ Creamy Obsessions, Recipe Hacks, and Tips For All Levels of Baking, is for all levels of bakers. Inside are recipes for those who like to bake from scratch and those looking for easy no-bake alternatives with the same delicious flavors. Also, includes competition secrets.