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Bobby Goldsmith Bake-off
07/06/10 13:37 Categories:
Media/Events
Gaycakes went along to one of the
big events of the Sydney Gay scene yesterday - the BGF Bake-off.
Based very much on a traditional fete baking competition but with
some added glamour, the event is a light hearted way of raising
funds for the Bobby Goldsmith Foundation. There is a huge range of
entries - some are joke entries and some are taken very seriously
but overall it is a very fun event.
The Bake Off judging panel, which comprised of executive chef of Longrain restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne Martin Boetz, Channel Ten’s Ready, Steady Cook presenter Peter Everett and iconic Sydney drag queen Claire de Lune, took each entry through a gruelling testing process based on taste, presentation and degree of difficulty.
After the prizes are awarded the cakes are auctioned off to raise funds. Our entry raised $1200. As our cake was a faux cake we included a $300 voucher for a real cake within the auction package presented together with a champagne package. We left before all the cakes were auctioned but they seemed to be well on their way to reaching their $45,000 target.
The Bake Off judging panel, which comprised of executive chef of Longrain restaurants in Sydney and Melbourne Martin Boetz, Channel Ten’s Ready, Steady Cook presenter Peter Everett and iconic Sydney drag queen Claire de Lune, took each entry through a gruelling testing process based on taste, presentation and degree of difficulty.
After the prizes are awarded the cakes are auctioned off to raise funds. Our entry raised $1200. As our cake was a faux cake we included a $300 voucher for a real cake within the auction package presented together with a champagne package. We left before all the cakes were auctioned but they seemed to be well on their way to reaching their $45,000 target.
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The SGLBA cake shown here was a fake cake. It was to be displayed in an area of heavy traffic in a bar and there for an extended period of time. So....we created a fake cake. It looked and cut exactly like the real thing and when the speeches were over we were able to bring out real slices of cake for everyone to taste. It was a time critical event and so we wouldn't have had time to slice and present the cake otherwise.
A wedding is a more relaxed affair and so using a fake cake isn't usually for time or presentation constraints.
A small wedding only really needs a small cake but adding a fake tier can increase the impact of the wedding cake dramatically. A plain design to a tier means that the cost would be the fraction of a real cake layer. Adding elaborate decoration may alter the savings that you make but it will always be cheaper than the real thing.
Need a fake cake for a photo-shoot or filming event or production? Let us know....if it gives us the right exposure then we can often work out a deal that suits everyone. If not then our prices are very reasonable !
Contact us