Brown’s Handcrafted Cakes wins national baking award

Robin Mountain, Natasha Brown and Claudia Winkleman

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Brown’s Handcrafted Cakes, owned by Natasha Brown, in St. Mary’s Gate, Rochdale, has been crowned the nation’s Celebration Cake Business of the Year at the Baking Industry Awards 2015.

The achievement was recognised last night in front of more than 800 industry guests at a gala awards ceremony at London’s Park Lane Hilton, as Natasha was presented with the award by television presenter and star of BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, Claudia Winkleman, and Robin Mountain, Managing Director of Renshaw, the award sponsors.

To win the prize, a team from Brown’s Handcrafted Cakes had to work together to make a cake based on the 1970s Studio 54 Disco in New York which had been chosen as the theme for the whole awards evening.

Natasha Brown said: “Studio 54 was fascinating - a nightclub for the rich and famous enjoying music, dancing and debauchery, so we depicted Andy Warhol painting the entrance, with a dusting of dollar bills, while performing on-stage are Village People – four dancing to their hit, YMCA, and two on Harley Davidsons.”

The cake also featured two girls in 70s costumes dancing the night away, John Travolta striking his Saturday Night Fever pose in his famous white suit and, with dawn rising on a backdrop of marzipan skyscrapers, the man in the moon appearing in the sky.