A Four Nations Cake featuring a Welsh cake base left Dame Mary Berry speechless as she proclaimed: "It's not something I've seen before". The cake to celebrate the Queen's 70-year reign was made by Susan Gardner from Scotland as part of the one-off BBC show The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking .
Susan is among the contendors baking a cake for the Queen to celebrate the royal occasion and the winning cake will ultimately be chosen by Dame Mary and a selection of other judges, including Masterchef: The Professionals star Monica Galetti and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
Retired sales manager Susan was inspired by her mother to bake and only started the hobby a couple of years ago. For Susan, a big fan of judge Monica, has created a cake to celebrate all four corners of the UK. The 65-year-old's cake consists of Scottish berries, English rhubarb, Irish butter cream and, of course, Welsh cakes as the base.
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TV viewers will see how Dame Mary is left speechless at the quality of the cake, calling it "so original". She says on the show, which is screened on Thursday, May 12: "I can just imagine our Queen tucking into the pudding."
Dame Mary, 87, said that she got involved in the project as she thought that it was "a simply wonderful idea". She told the BBC: "Jubilees are very special, people are going to come together, have street parties and come together for the occasion as families and communities."
Susan is comnpeting alongside four other contestants in a bid for her cake to be made for the Queen and the winner will be revealed at the end of the programme. The four other finalists are:
* Shabnam, who lives in north London and works part-time at her husband’s skincare clinic while also catering for friends and family parties as a hobby.
* Sam, a 32-year-old lawyer from Warwickshire, who began baking at the age of seven with her grandmother, who taught her all the traditional baking methods.
* Copywriter Jemma, 31, from Southport, also began baking as a child but started experimenting again when she got her own home four years ago.
* Composer and oboeist Kathryn, 29, who lives in Oxfordshire and describes herself as a “‘chuck everything in kind of cook”.
They are seen battling it out in the kitchens of the iconic London store, Fortnum & Mason, to impress the judges. The winning recipe will then go down in history, among the likes of the Victoria Sponge and Coronation Chicken.
The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking is on BBC One on Thursday, May 12 at 8pm
