Celebrity Baking Experience with Mel Giedroyc

Put on your chef’s hats and get ready for a thrilling head-to-head baking showdown! Nine pairs will go whisk-to-whisk, creating two different types of iced cakes. Not only will you showcase your baking skills, but you’ll also get to taste and critique a delicious variety of sweet creations.  
 
•    For two people 
•    Get your bake on and go up against a maximum of nine other pairs
•    You’ll start the experience with champagne and nibbles where you’ll meet your fellow participants
•    The Cookery School chef will give you a tutorial on baking techniques
•    Mel will arrive at 5pm whilst you’re baking two different iced cakes of your choice
•    Mel and the Cookery School chef will move from pair to pair keeping a watchful eye as you make your treats, from Devonshire cream cake to Swiss roles or Victoria sponge
•    After you’ve finished baking, you’ll enjoy more champagne as well as tregothnan tea and ozone coffee, Mel and the chef will taste the cakes and provide their feedback and hopefully there will be no soggy bottoms!
•    Venue: Cookery School at Little Portland Street, off Regents Street
•    Timing: 4pm – 8pm 
•    Date to be agreed with all parties - likely to not take place sooner than January 2026

Attendees will be welcomed to the Cookery School with champagne and nibbles before the baking begins. Participating pairs will have the chance to meet each other and settle in before the baking kicks off.

The professional pastry chef will give a short talk on cake-making techniques, sharing expert tips on baking cakes. To start, the chef will demonstrate how to make a faultless fatless sponge and a classic Victoria sponge. Each pair will select, in advance, the two types of cakes they’d like to bake. Given the limited time, all cakes (except for the 8” fatless sponge and lemon drizzle loaf) will be made as cupcakes to ensure they bake and cool quickly before icing. 

While the cakes are in the oven, attendees will prepare toppings. Once the cakes have been iced, everyone will gather around the Cookery School table with Mel to indulge in a tasting session, sampling all the delicious creations. 

Finally, Mel and our chefs will give their feedback accordingly! The delightful day will end with more champagne, tea, coffee and of course more cake! All guests will also take home a cake each.

Supported by Cookery School & donated by Mel Giedroyc

Terms and Conditions: The event will last for 4 hours total. date agreed prior to the event, but this may need to change based on Mel Giedroyc schedule. Mel will only be there for a duration of 3 hours from 5pm – 8pm. Choice of the following cakes available to confirmed prior to event: fatless sponge: Devonshire cream cake topped with chocolate ganache, Buch noel filled with chestnut cream and topped with chocolate ganache, Swiss roll filled with jam – traditional one. Victoria sponge: plain Victoria sponge cupcakes topped with a flavoured butter cream, lemon drizzle – half size cake because of baking time or lemon drizzle cup cakes, sticky toffee pudding. cakes raised with baking powder: carrot cake, honey spice cake, devil’s food cake. image for reference only.