Raising Awareness Week 2022 - CRY Great Cake Bake

A huge thank you to the 34 supporters who took part in the CRY Great Cake Bake 2022

The 11th CRY Great Cake Bake took place on Friday 25th November, as part of Raising Awareness Week. We are so grateful to all of our wonderful supporters who took part and baked for CRY in their local communities.

It has been great to hear about people’s events and receive photos of the incredible cakes and bakes created; and it’s clear that supporters worked extremely hard on some really technical and original designs. They all looked delicious.

This year we were lucky enough to have the support of three bakers who have appeared on the Great British Bake Off; Chigs Parmar, Freya Cox, and Valerie Stones formed a fantastic panel of judges for this year’s competitions.

The competition categories were ‘Best Cake Design’ and ‘Most Imaginative Bake’. After careful consideration, the expert bakers have awarded:

1st Place for Best Cake Design and Most Imaginative Bake – Three tiered 80s sweets themed cake from Katie Gosling’s cake bake.

“It’s challenging to build a 3 tier cake, each tier of this cake is decorated with various designs using buttercream imaginatively. The use of 80s sweet treats is a real trip back in time… A really well thought out design.” (Valerie Stones)

“You can see there are various different techniques used and I absolutely love the bright colours, super imaginative” (Freya Cox).

It has been great to hear about the different ways in which our supporters have raised awareness of CRY in their local areas, workplaces and with friends and family during the year’s Great Cake Bake. However, CRY staff have come to a decision on this year’s winner for Most Awareness Raised and 1st place goes to Nicola Merriman.

Nicola worked hard to produce a wonderful array of treats for her event. Nicola spread the word about her Cake Bake to family, friends and others in her community too.

A fantastic £9,970.65 was raised this year, by 34 supporters who registered for the event. We are so appreciative to every single person who contributed to this fantastic fundraising total.