Bake-Off stand-off

Rivalry is heating up the 20th annual BGF Bake-Off this Sunday with entrants in the fundraiser practising for the 70s Disco Kitchen theme.

Serial winner and professional cake-maker Miss 3-D said she’d been preparing all week, but was tight-lipped on her designs for this year.

Hot on her heels, Sandy Toggs and her team will be running with an orange theme across all the categories. Toggs said their jam and conserve specialist had been preparing since December.

“We’ve all started off with the joy of childhood baking. The first thing I baked was the Big Bird banana bread from my Sesame Street cookbook and it’s been a steady rise to this competition,” she said.

Toggs was also excited about the new kitchen and table crafts category.

“In my more masculine days at an all-boys technical high school I protested the lack of home economics classes by crafting a wooden cake and implements in woodwork,” she said.

Toggs doesn’t see Miss 3-D as competition, rather an example of how to improve her own efforts.

“Miss 3-D is our target for what we’d like to achieve. But whoever thinks they can beat us in jams and preserves – they’re going down this year.”

The Bake-Off is at the Midnight Shift on Sunday 17 June, hosted by Mitzi Macintosh and judged by Todd McKenney, Claire de Lune and Patrick Collins.