bake off 2012 // letizia cup Posted by Helena

My competition cake - the Battenburg.

Ahh, that time of the year where everyone bakes three cakes in a day to bring to someone's house so everyone there can judge them on their cakes. Sounds awful right? Nahhh, the bake off is always fun, but I feel a little baked out now! I also came crashing down after the world's biggest sugar high. Eating that much sugar is just like having a hangover, except you skip the fun-woozy-drunk bit and just go straight to the feeling-awful-and-needing-lots-of-water bit.

I came second after Craig who must have won some serious points for the "originality" category (one that I failed to remember because I would've come up with something a little more inventive than a lemon and lime tart) with his apple pie baked into a cake.


Seth's Battenburg


Craig's Battenburg

CITRUS

Seth's 3 layer lemon cake


Craig's orange white chocolate pecan cheesecake


My lemon and lime tart (that did win overall in the "taste" category)

FREESTYLE

Seth's chocolate sheet cake


Craig's apple surprise cake (aka has a baked apple pie inside)


My s'mores cupcakes - biscuit base, chocolate cake with a peanut butter filling and marshmallow/meringue icing