Series Two of BBC Great British Bake Off...

Would you like to take part?

BBC2 has commissioned a second series of last summer’s successful series The Great British Bake Off where passionate amateur baking fans will take part in a ‘bake off’, battling it out to be crowned the UK's Best Amateur Baker, 2011. This will be another huge exciting event that will have everyone - young and old - on the edge of their seats. 
Webbe’s Cookery School have been asked to help find keen amateur bakers of all ages to take part beginning in April. You don’t need to have done a cookery course with us or anyone else, just to enjoy baking and believe in your results and have time to film in April if you are chosen (and May and June the further you get in the competition). On the other hand, if you do want to improve your baking we have courses and you are allowed to do them! It would be great to have East Sussex cooks taking part.
The entrants will demonstrate the diversity of baking in the UK today – it will feature everyone from young and funky cupcake decorators, to Jamaican gingerbread and Greek spanakopita bakers, to the more traditional bakers of the British classic, the Victoria sponge.  Each programme will be tackling a different skill. The baking challenges will get progressively more difficult as the series goes on.  
Throughout the series each entrant will have the chance to develop and improve their skills giving the programmes real depth and heart.  The programmes look at each character’s cooking background (cooking for family or learning from your mother is fine), and get to know them and the stories behind their baking.  The expert judges will again be, Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry, who inspect, prod and smell the proffered goods and assess which entrants should move into the next stage of the hunt for the UK’s best amateur baker.
Presenters will anchor the series and chat to the contestants about their baking highlights and disasters as their journey progresses. The ‘bake off’ forms the spine of each show - but through the baking, the presenters will explore and retell the baking history of Britain: visiting local baking landmarks and building up a culinary map of the country by discovering its history.  
If you have any questions or would like to take part, please get in touch with Ruth on 07747 654680.