Lotte’s ‘the icing on the cake’ for village Bake Off

EXCITEMENT and support is growing for the Great Worminghall Bake Off , which today announced that celebrity baker, Lottie Duncan, is to judge the competition. Lotte is well known in the food and baking community both locally and nationally and is patron of the hugely successful annual Thame Food Festival.

Lotte Duncan with BBC Radio presenter, Ken Bruce, at the Thame Food Festival 2013

Lotte will be joined by fellow foodie, Worrminghall’s very own ‘Queen of Cakes,’ Lissie Mead. The two judges will be tasting cakes with themes such as ‘My Holidays’ and ‘Great Britain’.

Lotte said : “I’m thrilled to be asked to judge this event. It’s great to see a small community come together to raise money for local and international causes and at the same time have fun and get to know each other better.”

The event will take place in the Village Hall in a Worminghall on Sunday, February 9, from 3-5pm. Would- be bakers can sign up by visiting the pop-up cafe which runs for another two Saturdays, February 1, and 8, from 10am-12.30pm. Registration is £2 and entrants will receive a copy of the recipes, rules and regulations. Places are limited and on a first come, first served basis. Entry is not restricted to Worminghall residents.

The three categories are as follows:

Under 8s

9-13 years

Adults (14 years +)

Worminghall residents, Kathryn Albany-Ward and Lex Brown, decided to organise the pop up cafe to bring their local community together on a Saturday morning to raise money for their local village hall and the Karibuni charity for Kenyan street children. Kathryn said: “‘Since the shop closed in Worminghall a number of years ago, there has been nowhere in the village to meet friends and for the children of the village to spend pocket money. We hope that holding the cafe and tuck shop will encourage the whole village to get together to raise money for two great causes as well as getting to know each other and, through the Bake Off, have a bit of fun.”

Email worminghallcafe@gmail.com or see www.facebook.com/worminghallcafe for further information.

The Karibuni Trust (UK Charity No. 1044872) aims to raise awareness of children living on the streets and in the slums in areas of urban and rural extreme poverty in Kenya, and to raise money to support projects to meet their needs. The children could be orphans, abandoned children or runaways who must support themselves on the streets by begging, stealing or scavenging. Karibuni also supports projects run by Kenyans and is currently working with a Maua Methodist Hospital to provide care for people living with HIV/AIDS. Further information can be found at www.karibuni.org.uk