Have you been practicing your whipping, rolling, beating, flaming, drizzling, melting, pounding, kneading, tasting and spooning? Better get started if you want to be ready for SWEET!

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If you haven’t already heard, on Sunday October 18th Gay and Lesbian Community Services are hosting the SWEET Bake Off and High Tea to celebrate our 35th birthday!

It’s our birthday and we challenge you to a bake off! All individuals and community groups are invited to enter our bake off competition for a chance to win some great prizes. These include vouchers for Upper Crust Cooking Classes to expand your culinary prowess.

We know you have all been waiting for an excuse to get creative in the kitchen. So this Pride, SWEET will satisfy the cravings of all you cooks and cake lovers.

Whether you’re already a ganache guru or have sweet decorating dreams, there’s a category to suit you. Enter your creation in Best Decorated Cake, Most Erotic Cake or Best Tasting Sweet Baked Good. All entries will also have the chance to be judged Best In Show.

Community groups and organisations are invited to represent themselves in a cake! Will we being seeing a red ribbon cake from WAAC? A pair of dancing shoes from OUTdance? A racquet cake from Loton Park? Or a rainbow cake from Freedom Centre?

Whether you’re baking or not you can look forward to a great celebration on the afternoon of the 18th .
We will be dressed for high tea, sipping champagne cocktails, eating cake and listening to the very talented David Gray and Rebecca Daniels crooning away. David is in the upcoming Pride festival musical, Bare, and Rebecca is one of the new regulars gigging at Ellington’s Jazz Club.

The bake off proceedings will be hosted by Ms Mabel – Past house mistress at the Sisters of Ovarian Latte, Miss Fox Trot 68 , Sponge winner 1999 Perth Royal Show, guardian/ettiquette coach to wayward youth Miss Lucy and most recent host of Lady to Laddette!

Entries will be judged by the SWEET panel including which includes Pride Patron Mr Mark Reid. Winning entries from the competition will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. All other cakes and baked goods will be sold off to raise money for GLCS services.

Proudly sponsored by the Court Hotel and OUTinPerth, SWEET will be held on Sunday October 18th, 2pm at the Court. All competition entries must be received between 1.30pm and 2.30pm for judging. There is a $5 fee for entering the bake off competition. Entry to the event is by gold coin donation to GLCS. For more information about SWEET, full registration details, online registration and inspiration go to the GLCS website www.glcs.org.au

Nadine Toussaint
GLCS Chairperson

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