We race (electronically) and the loser has to bake a cake to feed the
office.
Why? Because we like cake.
Who? Everyone in the office. No one gets out of it. When? 1st
Monday of the month. The rules: you make the cake yourself, without any
help. You can't 'repeat' a cake. Your cake will be judged on presentation,
difficulty and taste, and marked out of 10 by each colleague. When you have
baked 3 cakes, you are out of the competition for 1 year.
Surprise Wedding Cake by George.
We know that George is somewhat an “expert” baker, so we all had fairly
high expectations for this cake. However, we were still all stunned when George
brought in this masterpiece of a cake. The cake was a vision with buttercream
roses along the top and side of the cake (which were pink and sparkly much to
Katie’s delight) and it was smothered in a smooth chocolate ganache. However, this
cake, which was already very impressive, held a surprise. When George cut into
the cake, we saw that the inside of the cake itself was a square pattern of
raspberry and chocolate sponge. We all had one question… How did she do it?!
This was not an easy cake, it involved creating two mixes, one with
chocolate one with raspberry sponge, baking them and then cooling them in the fridge,
THEN baking two more of each and doing this again. Then it got technical,
George had to use a PROTRACTOR from Andrew’s old school kit, to cut out circles
of the sponge of each cake, swap them over and stack them up, using jam to
stick the pieces together. It was then covered in chocolate ganache and left to
cool, with the final touch of the flowers, which were piped with buttercream
and edible glitter.
The Verdict:
Needless to say, we were all impressed. This was like nothing Cake
Monday had ever seen. Andrew was particularly pleased with how “engineering
concepts” had been used to build the cake. Sidonie said she would expect it
only from a professional cake shop. The cake was deemed a “winner” and “the
best cake yet”. The cake received a record breaking three 10/10 scores and we
had 2 mini Simon Cowells with guest judges in Oscar and Isaac (George’s two
boys) who agreed that it looked really good and their Mum had worked very hard.
Well done George who goes straight to the very top of the leader board with 9.4/10.
Surprise Wedding Cake Average Score:
9.4
Next time: Hearts were racing
when we were finding out who will bake next month’s cake, no one wanted to
follow George… but it was about time for Callum, who hasn’t baked a cake since
he joined. We all fear he will turn up with a pie.