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First Annual Great Sunflower Bake Off a Resounding Success
THE FIRST ANNUAL GREAT SUNFLOWER BAKE OFF IN CELEBRATION OF THE SUN- FLOWER FUND’S 20TH BIRTHDAY WAS A RESOUNDING SUCCESS, WITH 100 ENTRIES COMING IN FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
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Enthusiastic bakers submitted their most Davids and she wins a signed copy of Siba creative sunflower cakes for judging by Mtongana’s cookbook Welcome To My Table. celeb judges Justine Drake and Lameez The Sunflower Fund, partnered by DKMS, Abrahams. Entries included some profeswould like to congratulate all the lucky winsionally baked creations as well as some ners and extend a huge thanks to all entrants interesting novice and kids’ creations and their supporters for helping us celebrate - but all were equally well-received by 20 years of impact, as well as to raise funds organisations who were surprised with to continue their life-saving work through this a confectionary gift as part of the pay it great initiative. Funds raised from the event forward entry mechanic that formed part will enable The Sunflower Fund to create of the campaign. awareness and education about blood stem
With a coveted Kitchen Aid Artisan mixer cell donation, recruit more blood stem cell amongst the R50 000 worth of prizes up donors, grow the patient support fund and for grabs, 10 finalists were selected in maintain a registry of committed donors. each category, who participated in a hotly This, in turn, means greater hope of cure contested public voting period. The winning for patients who are diagnosed with lifecake, with 165 public votes won it all for threatening blood diseases and who are in Olivia Barrett from La Lucia. need of a blood stem cell transplant from a Winners in the various categories are: matching unrelated donor.
Kids
1st: Olivia Barrett (La Lucia, KZN) For more information on The Sunflower Fund partnered by DKMS 2nd: Ava Monteiro (Somerset West, WC) or how to register as a blood stem cell donor, please visit www. 3rd: Faraaz Meer (Vryheid, KZN) sunflowerfund.org or call 0800 12 10 82.
Novice
1st: Vaishali Rajoo (Benoni, Gauteng) 2nd: Amy Lawrence (Pinelands, WC) 3rd: Jolieta Kruger (Somerset West, WC)
Intermediate
1st: Kayla Joubert (Vereeniging, Gauteng) 2nd: Amy Lawrence (Pinelands, WC) 3rd: Chantel Theunissen (Edgemead, WC)
Advanced
1st: Kayla Joubert (Vereeniging, Gauteng) 2nd: Ashleigh Freeks (Mitchells Plein, WC) 3rd: Chantel Theunissen (Edgemead, WC)
The judges’ choice winner was Raushan
