THE fourth Great Abergavenny Bake Off proved to be a sweet success today with entries that included a suspended three-tiered cake to a seaside theme.

A total of 57 budding bakers battled it out for the title of best celebration cake, cupcake, traditional bakes and junior bakers in two age categories.

The event returned due to popular demand and was held at the Cricket Club, Avenue Road, in aid of Cancer Research UK and Sarcoma UK.

Judging the categories were Simon King, of 1861 Restaurant, Odette Phillips of For the Love of Cakes, Andi Silcox of Cake and Jam Designs, Emmeline Vieregge of Emmeline’s Homebaking and Jan Howells of the Victorian Tea Rooms.

Organiser Helen Maloney said the afternoon of family fun was a great success.

She said: “There were 57 entries, of those 26 were junior entries and the standard was incredibly high again this year.”

The winners of the categories are; celebration cakes Sarah Neil with a three-tiered caked entitled ‘happy 18th Carmen’: traditional bakes was awarded to Peter Grayer for his chocolate layer cake; best cupcake was Julia Skelton for her carrot-flavoured cupcakes; junior baker aged seven years and under was Tom King for his Lightening McQueen cake and junior baker aged between eight to 12 was Mollie Preece for her ‘snorkelling at the seaside’-themed cake.

“The judges had a tough task in deciding the winners, especially in the junior categories. They were really impressed with the entries,” she added.

“The bakers certainly put a lot of thought and effort into making them and take it very seriously.”

As well as the cake competition, activities included cake baking demonstrations, a silent auction, children’s workshops, bouncy castles and a performance by the Abergavenny Sing With Us Choir.

Visitors to the event also enjoyed over 200 cream teas.

Ms Maloney said the event was organised by herself and a group of friends from Abergavenny. They are Helen Brown, Kate Baylis, Lucie Doyle, Kate Edmunds, Kate Williams and Michelle Barker.

The amount raised from the event is not yet known.