Well,
it’s been a week since the Great Roath Bake Off and we’ve just
about recovered from our cake hangovers! Just about ;-)
The other entries worth mentioning
for taste were a lovely fruit cake (which turned the heads of even
those judges who are not fruit cake fans!), a chocolate and peanut
butter cake and some rather tasty cake pops.
The
Savoury category followed the cakes and the breads and pies entered
here were of equal standard to that of the cakes. The winner was
quite possibly one of the nicest pork pies the judges had ever
tasted. Baked by Bill Ward, the pastry was well cooked, light and crispy and the filling
beautifully seasoned. The other entry that rated highly in this
category was a lovely olive, sundried tomato and harrissa bread.
The
two other categories were the professional bake, which Nato & Co Portuguese won
with their tasty Portuguese Tarts and the under 16’s which was won
by lovely Molly Spivey with her White chocolate, pomegranate and
raspberry cake. We hope Molly keeps baking, there may be a job for
her in the future with The Cakehouse!
We had another wonderful day at the Bake Off and credit must go to Wayne for organising the whole thing. Here’s to even bigger and better things next year!
We loved working with our fellow judges too and it was great to catch up with the familiar faces of Nikki (Your Last Mouthful) and Matt of Roath.net. It was also great to meet Sue Charles & Owain Wyn Evans, Dave Brookes, Dave Owens and Sharon Mills. We hope to see you again soon.
Next up for us judging wise is ‘Loaf
in Roath’ on 5th May....watch this space for details; we can’t
wait :-)