The great Stratford bake-off is next month at the Well Cafe as owner Hillary Kieft invites brilliant bakers, clever cooks and dexterous decorators to show off their skills at the first Well Cafe Christmas Cake competition.
Hillary says entry is open to all, with a special section for school-aged entrants, and the event will serve as a fundraiser to fill the shelves of the Stratford Community Food Bank in time for Christmas.
"We are inviting people to enter their cakes in the competition for judging. However no-one will take their cake home. Instead they will be auctioned off, with all monies raised going to the foodbank," Hillary says.
Cakes are to be dropped off the day before the competition to give the celebrity judge, whose identity is a secret, time to pick the winners.
On the day, a small market will run alongside the cake event.