Flair for baking impresses judges

The Great Kiwi Home and Living Show’s inaugural Great Southern Cakeoff attracted more than 50 entries at the weekend. Rebecca Fox talks to winner Maya Turner about her creation.

IT took 12 hours, 2kg of raspberries, 12 eggs and a litre of cream to make, but Maya Turner’s triple chocolate raspberry cake won the hearts of the judges at the Great Southern Bakeoff at the weekend.

Judges Kevin Gilbert and Annabel Langbein raved about the cake, which was topped with white chocolatecovered raspberries, especially its balance between filling and icing.

Turner (23) said the chocolate cake was made of four individual cakes stacked together with raspberry coulis and chocolate mousse layers in between.

She makes the cake regularly but had ‘‘never done this raspberry and mousse version before’’.

Turner, who is the deputy head of the Locals programme at the University of Otago, can turn her hand to baking anything from cakes and cupcakes to biscuits.

The Great Kiwi Home Show was run by Allied Press, owner of the Otago Daily

Times, in partnership with Dunedin Venues.