The Katherine Times’ tradition of entering a cake in the Bloke v Sheila’s competition at the show has taken a slight turn this year.
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With no hope of placing against Katherine’s baking masterchefs, we created a competition of our own.
Who’s cake is the best?
Vote below.
Chloe Follett, sales
After being informed the theme is the Katherine Show, ideas come flooding into my head. A ferris wheel, horses, carnival games, stalls… all kinds of creative cakes. So I jumped on pintrest and searched the best I could for awesome cakes! Then it hit me! The croc in Woolworths from the ‘98 flood. “Genius idea Chloe”, I thought.
I quickly gathered my things and raced off to Woolworths for supplies, the short 10 minute break I told the girls I’d be, ended up an hour dodging tourists going from shop to shop trying to find something to create the Woolworths deli. My brilliant idea was short lived and I’d searched the whole complex to only find a toy croc way oversized. Time to rethink.
So I go back to the drawing board to start again. Well this is when Roxanne decided it was now time to kick it up a notch and make it a competition. Bring it, Brittany! Things were about to get serious.
So off I went again to get my supplies only return with some Paddle Pop sticks. My hope in this competition is slowly dying and I need to think of a great idea quick!
It’s Wednesday night and I had errands to run before returning home. I get home late and pass out without even thinking about the cake due tomorrow. This isn’t going to end well..
It’s 7am and my alarm goes off. “Oh no”, I think. Due date and I have completely forgotten. This is when I decided the competition is more important than work and I took the morning off. “Your time to shine, Chlo,” I power posed.
It was a case of the reality TV show ‘Nailed It’ really…My brilliant vision of a flooded bridge turned out to be, well a disaster. 10/10 if the theme was the Flood Disaster.
But anyway i’ll keep my head held high and I have hope in the public that the ‘Jesus Loves Nachos’ will save my cake and make me a winner.
Roxanne Fitzgerald, reporter
Its the battle of the sexes. Blokes vs sheilas in a baking competition.
I had big shoes to fill, and grand ideas beyond my abilities.
My predecessor, Lydia Lynch had placed an impressive third last year in the same competition.
Somehow, she had managed to put together a replica of Nitmiluk. A masterpiece to say the least.
My competitive streak had kicked in, and someone in the office had decided to add to the pressure with an in-house competition.
Bring it on. I was far more likely to win against Chloe than the masterful entrants at the show.
Left right up to the last minute, late on Wednesday night with only hours until my creation had to be assembled, ingredients were thrown into bowls haphazardly.
Edges were burnt, flour wasn’t sifted.
Luckily icing covers all flaws.
The end result was not at all what I first set out to make.
But, I personally think this cake is the epitome of Katherine.
Not only does it represent flood mitigation, tying in with the Show’s theme ‘20 years on from the flood’, but it also represents all of the work and construction that has taken place in this small town, and all of the work yet to be completed.