Winning Ways

On the day I was born my Nana came to visit me in hospital. As I lay there sleeping she turned to my mum and said "she has a determined mouth that one" and how right she was!

Determination is definitely a strong characteristic of mine, and that can manifest itself in a competitive streak - I want to be the best at everything I do.

And we firmly believe that at The Cakehouse too. We always use the best ingredients and our cakes are baked to perfection.

But that doesn't mean we don't want other people to do well too!!

So we were over the moon when we were asked to judge the Spring Bake Off in Roath yesterday.

The competition, organised by the wonderful Wayne, was held at Milkwood Gallery where people gathered from right across Cardiff to enjoy the warm weather, the marvellous music and of course the cake creations.

The standard was high, but after tasting, nibbling and munching our way through the entries with our fellow judges (Nicky from Your Last Mouthful, Christian from Loves the 'Diff, T.J. Crows and social media writer Allan Beaton) we eventually found our winners.

In 3rd place was Gareth's Victoria Sandwich, cleverly disguised as an albino hedgehog. Our next runner up was Daniel who baked a lemon and poppy seed cake, which was a favourite with several on the judging panel. But the overall winner was an Easter Celebration Cake, made by Ann who said she'd only been baking for about a year.

And it wasn't just the bakers who were in winning ways on this sunny Sunday - our Cakehouse competition also came to an end. We promised to give away a cake to one lucky winner as soon as we reached 1000 followers on Twitter, and that happened yesterday. So congratulations to @FannyIngabout (or Jane as she's really called!) who'll be receiving her prize too - a first class cake from The Cakehouse.