Rochester Cherry Competition Victory!!

Wednesday 8 February 2012

Brrrr....its absolutely freezing here in the UK! Literally! My laptop weather gadget is telling me its -5 outside!! Ouch!!


This cold weather makes me looks forward to the spring and think about past summers...a couple of years ago my friend Rachel from House of Pinheiro invited me to spend the weekend with her in Rochester and it just so happened that the city was holding its annual summer pinic and were hosting a charity Cherry dessert competition!! Even back then when we didnt know eachother that well Rach knew about my love of cherries and of course we had to enter!! The only rule of the competition was that they needed to use fresh local Kent grown cherries...I made a Cherry Clafoutis and Rach made a fanastic Brazilian dessert. We were so excited about the weekend that we even sewed our own fun cherry aprons especially for the occasion!! We were rushing to make them the morning of the picnic and didn't quite finish them on time...


It was a wonderful day! The sun was shining! Lots of people and stalls and some extremely good contenders for the dessert competition!

The big oval one is Rachel's Brazilian masterpiece
Mine was D...cherry clafouti
Stiff competition
After alot of tastings, the scores were in and the Head Judge, Chris from Topes restaurant in Rochester announced the winner...



and hey presto Rachel's Brazilian delight won 1st Prize!! Wooohooooo!!!! We were soooo happy!! She won a supercute cherry dessert platter, a three course dinner for two at a local 2 AA rosette restaurant and the opportunity to make the desserts in the restaurant kitchen and for the dessert to be served in the menu for the evening...what an honour!!

One our way home with the winning platter outside the restaurant we had dinner
Our finished aprons!
Making the winning dessert in the restaurant kitchen
Rach with Head Chef, Chris
At the restaurant
Winning dessert on the menu with Rach's name!

The final presentation of the dessert...its no surprise they sold out right!
We even featured in the local newspaper!!


You can find Rachel's take on the day here.  Oh summer fun!! Please hurry and bring me sunshine!!

Cherry Lane xoxo

24 comments:

  1. What an exciting day for you both.Your cherry clafouti looks really yum too. Love your aprons :)

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  2. Loved the aprons and this is such a nice thing to have happened :)

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    1. Thanks Purvi! It was so cool to have won!!

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  3. Wow! It's just like I'm watching a contest on TLC.
    You're looking cute. Congrats.
    Now I know your name it's Kiran right? Yes I clicked the newspaper cutting. :)

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    1. haha!! Thanks so much... Yep now you know! lolxx

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  4. How cute are those aprons! I need Rachel to make me some that famous dessert of hers.

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    1. Mella, I'm waiting for the drinks and baking party invite !

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    2. oh yeah that dessert is AMAZING!! Its so different too...you will never have tasted anything like it before! xx

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  5. These desserts look all delicious... Nice photos! :)

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    1. Thanks Alex! All the desserts were sooo delicious!!

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  6. we had such a blast that day. we should enter again this year.. how about asking ideas on the blog?? xx

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    1. ahh, we could also have the tutorial of the cherry aprons ! and a new design for this year ,how fun would be that !

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    2. yeah it was SUCH a fun day!!! We def have to enter again this year! Cherry apron tutorial is such a great idea!! I will get thinking of a new design and keep an eye out for a fun fabric!! Ohhhh I'm so looking forward to it already!!xx

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  7. Great....the desserts look yummylicious...

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    1. haha! They were so good...it was just so lovely because everyone had really made a big effort in all their desserts and they were all such a high standard!!

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  8. awww such a cute lovely post :) :) loved reading it all :)

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    1. ah thanks Namita! I'm so glad you enjoyed reading! Thats what we bloggers hope for :-) xx

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  9. awwwww..the aprons are cute! everything looks great!
    maybe you have time to check my new post :)

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  10. Fun stuff!! Everything looks sooo... good! I wish I had a little bit of everything! -5 thats really cold! I'll stop complaining about my 30 degree weather! Hope your staying warm indoors!!!

    http://swbeautifullife.blogspot.com

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    1. Are you talking C or F? I was talking C lol which is around 23F ok this is reply is sounding really boring now lol! all the desserts were so yum! I was getting stuffed just from tasting! lol

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  11. The desserts look SO GOOD! and good job on the aprons! You guys did great :-)

    xoxo Aisha

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