After winning the young section of the World Marmalade Awards, and World Jampionships, I decided to top it off with a trio and entered the World Bread Awards ....and I won!
My bread was called "Me and my sister: what boys and girls are made of"
In my face I put garlic, olives and herbs and made a snail to put on the top.
In my sister's face I put raisins, currants and cinnamon and topped it with plaits and bows.
I used a basic bread recipe and added in the flavours I thought would be tasty. I also made an Indian sizzling sun bread which had very special spicy flavours in. My brother entered two other breads and my sister entered a rabbit bread.
I went to the World Bread Awards ceremony on 7 October 2014 at St John's, Hyde Park. The atmosphere was nice because all the people were happy. I was able to talk to lots of interesting people who have promised me opportunities to see bakers at work. The food was really tasty. I especially liked the sunflower bread from "Flour Power".
There were lots of food experts and celebrities there including the Baker Brothers, Francis Quinn, Emmanuel Hadjiandreou and Stephen Hallam.
At the ceremony I met the Baker Brothers who I have seen on TV. Tom Herbert sat down with me and we created a special sourdough recipe called "St John's" as the awards ceremony as at St John's, Hyde Park. He also offered me the chance to go to help in his bakery. Tom gave me a Hobbs Bakery dough scraper which will be great for bread making.
I talked for a long time to Emmanuel Hadjiandreou because we have been trying out recipes in his book "Making Bread Together". Me and my brother have both made Emmanuel's Black Forest chocolate stollen bread. My brother entered a chocolate stollen bread inspired by his book. I have also tried his giraffe bread recipe.
At the awards I also met Fiona Hamilton-Fairley from the Kids Cookery School and found out about her charity that helps young people to cook and I hope to visit her soon.
I also talked to Stephen Hallam, from The Olde Pork Pie Shoppe in Melton Mowbray who has also invited me to learn how to make pork pies.
I have always dreamt of having a Kitchenaid so was very excited that I won that as one of my prizes, along with a slate trophy and some lovely "Merangz". I even had the choice of colour of the Kitchenaid and chose electric blue.
My dream is to write a children's cookery book using all the skills in bread, cake, pastry, jam and marmalade making that I have learnt over the last few years to get other children cooking. If anyone reading my blog can help me to make this happen, please let me know!
I would like to thank all these people for helping me with my bread making so far: Dan Lepard, Emmanuel Hadjiandreou Baker Mike and (at the Cake and Bake Show) Richard Bertinet.
At the end of the evening, all the winners had their photo taken. It was an amazing evening I will never forget. Thank you to Tiptree and all at the World Bread Awards.
