Summer Newsletter 2022

9511 SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2022 FOOD TECHNOLOGY Follow us @_HomeTech During the first half of the summer term the Year 10 Food Class and the Food Technology leaders had a visit from two local cake makers involved in the Bolton food festival’s ‘Great Bolton Bake Off’ competition. The food festival happens every year in August and as part of this year’s activities they are holding a ‘Bake Off’ with local schools invited to take part in two different competitions, the first to design a cupcake recipe and the second to create a celebration cake based on the theme of the Queen’s Jubilee. The competition wants to unleash the inner creativity of Bolton’s primary/secondary school pupils and the organisers are looking for the craziest and most imaginative cake designs around. From five- tiered, jewelled masterpieces to 3D cake scenes they want a cake to be amazing. Th ey have teamed up with two internationally recognised creative cake designers – Rosie Cake Diva and Kaykes. The ladies visited us to share their top tips and give advice about the competition before they act as our head judges when choosing the winning designs. Kaykes will also bring the winning Jubilee Cake design to life in time for the Food and Drink Festival! Ro ise Dummer Aka Rosie Cake Diva has become one of the world’s best known cake artists. She is now a presenter, a compere and a star of the Channel 4 and Netflix award-winning series ‘Extreme Cake Makers’. Rosie’s creations have appeared on BBC’s Graham Norton Show and even at Buckingham Palace with some of her oversized cake-creations taking centre stage at the Bolton Food and Drink Festival. Rosie’s favourite project was a life- sized Santa and Nurse cake for Royal Bolton Hospital and the NHS. Kay Gajra Kaykes is a Bolton-born mother and cake artist who has been designing cakes for the past 8 years as Kaykes. Kay is self-taught, has a flair for sculpted cakes and airbrushing/hand colouring, with a passion and love of art and realism that Kay aims to re-create in each piece that is produced in her studio. Kaykes is now a multi-award winning cake maker and has had the honour to be featured in such magazines as Cake Masters, Cake International, Cake and Craft, Wedding Cakes and many more. With spread features in ‘Cake’ an Australian cake magazine. Roi se and Kay delivered a workshop to our students explaining the different steps that they went through in the design, planning and making of their cakes giving tips on ways to add interest into designs. The y talked about the different types of elements that they would be looking for and assured our students that the challenge was going to be a part of the winning design that Kaykes would be making. All students currently on the Food rotation this term have had the opportunity to create a design in class that will be submitted for the competition. We wish them all luck and look forward to seeing the winning designs in August BAKE OFF!