The Family Christmas Cake Competition

This year we started a new family competition to be named Cake Master. The idea started last year when I made a Christmas cake for the first time, and my Dad threw down the gauntlet!

Here's last year's cake, a simple snowflake design, from a Nigella Lawson recipe:


This year, five of us took part but mysteriously my Dad declined to participate - afraid of the competition I think!

Here are the entries, from top to bottom: my cake this year (winner of 'Best Tasting'); my niece's star cake; my sister's snowflake cake; my sister-in-law's holly cake (winner of 'Best Decorated' and overall award of Cake Master!); my brother-in-law's traditional kitsch cake (winner of 'Junior Cake Master', even though he's in his fifties!!).

Really good fun, and next year we're planning on doing a Yule Log. Better start thinking!