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Monday, 30 April 2012

Report: Great Brixton Bake Off - in the rain

It was a wet windy day in South London for the Great Brixton Bake Off. About 15 brave stall holders faced the elements with their baking wares, all vying for a chance to win a prize in the competition.

I met some great people on the way around, all happy and smiling despite the weather and it proves that there are excellent local bakers doing great things. 

The winners were:

Cakes: Mahalias Kitchen
Cupcakes: The Carob Pod
Biscuits and Bites: Lillyput
Fruit Pies: Anna Smith Bakes
Bread: Pistachio Rose

The overall winner was Anna Smith Bakes. 

Here's a round up of some of my favourite stalls.

The Carob Pod



The Carob Pod is a Mediterranean Bakery with fabulous Greek Inspired, Cypriot bakes. Not everything was necessarily traditional, but each bake had a twist or could claim an influence in Greek cooking.








Crumbs of Brixton

Crumbs of Brixton delivered excellent biscuits and was a real winner for me in terms of presentation and taste. I loved the combination of flavours and they looked fantastic.

 www.crumbsofbrixton.com





The Pan Dan


The Pan Dan is a small family-run baking business that brings a taste of Malaysian inspired cakes and bakes to London. The infusion of Pandan into the cakes was especially good.

www.thepandanbakery.com




Mahalia's Kitchen



Mahalia's Kitchen presented cakes that were impressive in size, presentation and taste. Winning the Cakes category, Mahlia's Kitchen was also my top pick for cakes on the day.








Lillyput Cakepops & Cupcakes


Lillyput Cakepops and Cupcakes has clever cakes and pops. What I loved about this stall was the presentation of the individual cupcakes in little plastic covered containers. Easy to transport home without damaging the look and presentation.

www.lillyputbakery.co.uk

Thursday, 19 April 2012

The Great Brixton Bake Off

Brixton's on the up! Everywhere you turn, you'll read that Brixton is fast becoming the food destination of choice for South Londoners. At the heart of this revolution is Brixton Village - the new hub of it all with Federation Coffee, the fabulous Breads Etc and Thai favourite Kaosarn, just some of the fantastic food options that everyone is raving about. To celebrate this, Saturday April 28th sees the launch of the Great Brixton Bake Off which promises home baked cakes, bread, biscuits and fruit pies. Stalls by local bakers will be selling their wares and stall holders are all entered into the Bake Off competition.  I have read that there will be special celebrity guest judges (as yet unannounced) who will select the best bakes and present the prizes (sponsored by local department store Morleys). Sadly, I read about this too late and was not able to get myself together to take a stall. Shame!

Head to Station Road in Brixton -  the venue for the weekly market
Saturday, 28th April 2012 from 10am-5pm
Judging takes place at 1pm 
Nearest tube: Brixton

Read more about the Great Brixton Bake Off here
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