Channel 4 may still be working on their new series of Bake Off, but members of our Parkhead Resource Centre for adults with learning disabilities showed how quickly they could arrange their own competition this week.
When everyone decided, quite spontaneously, to hold a “Cake Off”, ingredients were soon assembled and members organised into two competing teams, led by support workers Christina Richards and Jonathan Bell.
Team JB made a chocolate sponge cake covered in glitter and butter cream, while team CR made caramel sponge with chocolate caramel icing, topped with salted caramel chunks.
Support worker, Simon Cochrane (dubbed rather unkindly ‘Fats Hollywood’) was appointed to award the teams marks out of ten for presentation and taste.
Team CR scored 5/10 for presentation and 10/10 for their salted caramel deliciousness! Team JB received 7/10 for presentation and 8/10 for taste for their chocolate cake – though they were lucky not to be disqualified for turning off team CR’s oven and hiding their ingredients!
In the end, both teams scored 15/20 – because, as Christina said, “Everyone is a winner at Parkhead!”