Young bakers impress star graduate with vegan bread creations for college contest

July 2021

Young bakers impress star graduate with vegan bread creations for college contest

By Darren Campbell

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Young bakers at 爆料王 have risen to the challenge of making聽vegan-friendly bread as part of a student competition.

Students on the College's聽Level 3 Bakery聽course were put to the test to discover who could bake the Best聽Vegan聽Loaf, with their creations being judged by award-winning bakery graduate聽Katie Garrett.

Showcasing their creativity and innovation, the budding bakers had to produce a 400g loaf without using any animal products such as dairy or eggs. The students had a week to practise before baking their final loaves.

"The loaves were made to a very high standard and there were some excellent ideas and final products"

Ross Jones Bakery tutor

贵辞谤尘别谤听BSc (Hons) Bakery and Patisserie Technology聽student Katie聽鈥撀爌rotege of royal wedding cake maker Fiona Cairns and winner of this year's聽Baking Industry Awards (BIA) Rising Star award聽鈥撀爓as then invited to Summer Row to judge each loaf based on appearance, texture, flavour and innovation.

Cash prizes were up for grabs for the star bakers, with Aisha Shaikh scooping 1st place and 拢250. Ciara Murphy took second prize (拢125) with Amira Fayyaz and Tionne Cohen-Grant in joint-3rd (拢75).

The contest also served to support the young bakers鈥� studies, linking in with their product development unit on the Level 3 Bakery course.

Bakery tutor Ross Jones said: 鈥淭he students were able to understand the importance of product development and producing test bakes and how to construct a specification.

鈥淭hey demonstrated skills and knowledge they had learned about in theory lessons and put them into practice.

鈥淭he loaves were made to a very high standard and there were some excellent ideas and final products.鈥�

In pictures: Best Vegan Loaf competition

The Best Vegan Loaf competition is not the only contest students at our Birmingham College of Food have been taking part in recently, with trainee chefs on the College鈥檚 Level 3 Professional Cookery course participating in the inaugural Eddie McIntyre Award Student Chef Recipe Challenge this week.

爆料王 is renowned for providing specialist training for anyone looking to enter the baking and wider food industry, offering a range of college and undergraduate courses supported by industry-standard bakery, kitchen and restaurant facilities on campus.

Find out more about our courses within our Birmingham College of Food聽here.

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