Being the competitive lot we are, last year (after a particularly nice chocolate biscuit cake was brought in by one of the girls), we put out an internal challenge to a ‘McCann Bake- Off’. You mean we challenged people to show off their peacock feathers by baking a cake? You bet we did, and boy did they rise to the bait.

Above: Fanny Cradock and her Jonnie show us how it’s done.

This year we decided to do it again and our friends in Easy Food Magazine heard about  it and have kindly offered to sponsor 1st prize and be our impartial judges. So we’ve set a deadline for submissions, Friday 5th February - to be judged over lunchtime. All in the name of a bit of ‘Friday Fun’, and the competitive streaks are already beginning to surface - and that’s just the boys. We’ll try to raffle off entries for charity at the end (more on this later).

But even though its just in time for any Lent promises that people might be making with regard to giving up the goodies, it looks like we might have a lot of calories to get rid of that day. After all boys, you gotta think of your summer bikini’s and as they say ‘A minute on the lips- forever on the hips’.

The rules are simple: Entries must fit into one of these categories:
1. Cake   2. Cookie   3. Pie   4. Bread.

It’s gotta be made by their own fair hand, and entrants must submit their recipes. So, Mr. Kipling – keep an eye on our ‘exceedingly good blog’ for the ’McCann Erickson 2010 Bake Off Winner’.