Having your cake and judging it too

PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH
PHOTO: PETER MCINTOSH
University catering manager and baking judge Gary McNeill samples an artistic chocolate mousse cake at this year's Otago University Students' Association Great Bake-Off yesterday.

Thirty carefully crafted entries were displayed in the main common room of the Union Hall, and judged on presentation and taste.

The entries - which included a cake covered in daisies and a cake made to look like a face - were judged by Mr McNeill, OUSA president Caitlin Barlow-Groome, and executive chef of the university's production kitchen Charlie Mancey.

OUSA recreation co-ordinator Laurence Potter said students preferred to take the large cakes home to their flats, but if any were left over they would be sold to generate money for the Sophie Elliott Foundation.

There were cash prizes for "best in show'' savouries, small goods, and cakes, and another prize for "students' choice''.

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