Sweet ending to food festival

Date published: 26 March 2019

Three local bakers are celebrating after winning prizes in this month’s Rochdale Food & Drink Festival cake competition.

Festival organisers staged the annual competition, this time encouraging people to come up with a ‘natural history adventure’ themed cake, inspired by the Rochdale visit of the world famous Dippy the Dinosaur from February to June next year.

There were two categories: adults and under 13’s, judged on taste, presentation and creativity by festival chef Andrew Nutter and local cake guru Natasha Brown. 

Lesley Anderson, from Rochdale, was awarded first prize - a gourmet dinner for two at Nutters Restaurant. Runner-up was Jenna Clarke, 14, from Norden, who won afternoon tea for two at Brown’s Cakes.

Winner of the under-13’s category was 11-year-old Tilly Richmond from Heywood who collected a voucher for afternoon tea at Nutters Restaurant with her family, plus a signed cookery book from the man himself.

Judge Natasha Brown, who also produced her own dinosaur themed creation said: “We had a lot of fun trying the cakes and the winners came up with some imaginative and tasty creations, well done everyone!”