At the LBP AGM on Friday 9th February, we were joined by Tim Loughton MP and Great British Bake Off Star Baker, Janusz Domagala who kindly judged the LBP Charity Bake Off.

Tim's first task was to tuck his tie away to avoid trailing it into the bakes and then both judges expertly sliced the bakes and loaded their plates ready to sample each and every entry.

Commencing with the very impressive Kids entries, they sampled Teddy Bear Cookies through to Carrot and Courgette Flat Cake and were amazed with the hidden surprise in the Rainbow Smartie Cake. Finally selecting the following winners:

Kids Category:

Winner - Tia-May age 14 yrs from Fizz Creations for her Bobble Hat Cake.

With the prize collected by Lawrence Boon MD of Fizz Creations

Runner-Up - Isla age 11yrs from Priavo Security for her Nutella Stuffed Cookies.

With Isla's proud Mum Michele Goering pictured with Janusz.

Then it was onto the Savory category with a variety of delicious bakes to sample including various favoured loafs, Sausage Pies and Chilli Con Carne Cake. Both Judges immediately agreed the following results:

Savoury Category:

Winner - Andie & Emily from Auctioneer's Kitchen for their Black Pudding & Pork Scotch Eggs, with eggs cooked to perfection. 

Michael Simmons from Shoreham Vehicle Auction collected their award from Janusz, but we later caught up with Andie & Emily to hear they will be opening to the general public from 1st March 2024.

Runner-Up - Andrew Goodchild from Paula Rosa Manhattan for his flavourful Chilli & Cheese Lactose Free Loaf.

Finally the judges moved onto the Sweet category which was full to the brim of amazing gateaux,  cup cakes and tray bakes. There was Red Velvet 20th Anniversary Cake from HR Smart, a Logo'd Fizz Creations spectacular and even a bouquet of cupcake flowers. What a difficult category to decide! The judges did their best to select from all types of cakes but were finally split between two entries:

Sweet Category:

Winner - Marie MacBain from Paula Rosa Manhattan tipped the scales with her amazing showstopper Triple Chocolate/Vanilla Cake with Oreo Buttercream Filling.

Lee Golby collected the trophy from Janusz but we later caught up with Marie pictured above with Andrew.

Runner-Up - Riina Mcloughlin from 

Sussex Transport provided a perfectly baked Black Forest Gateau, merely pipped to the post by the complexity of Marie's showstopper.

When the judging was over we thanked our judges for their meticulous job and were assured dinner would now need to be a lite bite for both of them. 

We would like to thank the AGM attendees who sampled the cakes and gave handsomely towards the pot. In total this event raised £540 for Electric Storm Youth and all leftover cakes were taken back to treat those attending Electric Storm Youth's youth event the following day.

LBP would like to thank:

• Tim Loughton and Janusz Domagala for judging
• Sussex Transport and Little Concepts for supplying the baking trophies 
• Fizz Creations for providing gift bags to give to all the kids who entered
• Everyone who entered for all their wonderful hard work
• All donators.

It was an enjoyable day for a great cause as we say goodbye to Electric Storm Youth.