Design and Technologies
Year 10 Cake Decorating Competition
To celebrate the return to onsite learning after a theory focussed, challenging and unusual Term 2 and 3, the Year 10 Food Technology classes have been rewarded with cooking, recipe investigation, 'practivities' and exciting taste test challenges for the remainder of the year!
This year also coincides with the 40th Anniversary of the 'Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake' book!' A generation of Australian children have grown up with the cakes from the 'Australian Women’s Weekly'. From the 'Duck Cake' with its beak made of potato chips, to the jelly-filled 'Pool Cake', the beauty of 'Dolly Varden' and popcorn filled 'Train Cake', there are decades of treasured memories on every page!
To honour this iconic moment in Australia’s baking history, both Year 10 Food Technology classes were set the challenge of baking, decorating and presenting their chosen cake design for judging by our esteemed cake judge, Ms Sue Dempster - Level Leader: Year 10 and, of course fabulous prizes to boot!
First Prize was the '40th Anniversary Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book' (2020 hard copy release), a tea towel and a spatula.
Second Prize was a tea towel and spatula (I am sure you are detecting a pattern)....and finally, for all the girls hard work and efforts, all participants joyfully received…a spatula!!
The feelings in the air were of excitement, joy and slight trepidation: would the cake collapse or stay standing? The kitchen was abuzz with the electric beaters, scents of rich warm vanilla cakes and the sweet sugar of the Vienna Buttercream frosting!!
Congratulations
1st Place
Kate Moore and Olivia Njari - Pink Spring Cake with handmade glossy meringues and fresh flowers and Olivia Cleary and Chelsea Endean - Ariel “The Little Mermaid” Dolly Varden cake.
2nd Place
Erin Carroll and Alice Merchant - Stove and Kitchen design cake and Lily Greenfield and Chelsea Bazzani - Bright Ladybug, hand shaped cake.
I am incredibly proud of the girls' commitment, creativity and exuberance regarding this task and how they have handled this year overall. As a teacher it has been a humbling and incredibly affirming feeling and I couldn’t ask for anything more! A huge thank you to all of my fabulous Year 10 cooks!
Alana Wright
Food Technology Teacher
Student Reflections - Cake Decorating Competition
This task was very enjoyable as it gave us freedom and a chance to use our creativity. After being in lock down for so long it was great to be back in the kitchen with all my class mates designing our cakes. May the best person win!
Maddison Torpey
Year 10
All the Year 10 students involved in Food Technology this year got to participate in a cake decorating competition when we returned back onsite. We all had the freedom to choose a cake from the original 'Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake' book. There were a variety of cakes from Barbie dresses, numbers, animals and shapes.
Overall it was a very fun activity and unleashed our inner creativity with planning, cooking and designing our cakes.
Natasha Wain
Year 10
The cake task was an enjoyable experience where we could be creative and design updated versions of the 'Woman’s Weekly' cakes. It was exciting to look at the different designs that others had made and the friendly competition made the overall competition very entertaining.
Mikayla Burke
Year 10
This task allowed us to be independent and use our prior knowledge to bake and create the cake. We were able to be creative and make our own version of a classic cake.
Abbey Hempel
Year 10