Competition: Your chance to create a dessert fit for a Queen

Next month we’ll be celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the festival of Shavuot. To mark this delicious double whammy, the Jewish News and United Synagogue are launching a competition today to get your ideas for a new delectable dessert with a royal twist to be made by Carmelli Bakery in Golders Green.

The winning dessert will be sold at Carmelli ahead of Shavuot and whoever comes up with it will win a whole box! Enter now by going to www.theus.org.uk/dessert. Entries close on Monday 23 May. Good luck!

As it’s Shavuout, you might like to suggest a patriotically-decorated cheesecake. Or, as the apple is Britain’s national fruit, it would be fitting to go with a cake using Royal Gala apples. Steven Wilson, United Synagogue’s Chief Executive, says: “Whether it’s a Union Flap Jack, an Elizabeth Sponge Cake or another British classic – the choice is yours! We’re after brilliant new ideas to create a dessert fit for the Queen – and who knows, perhaps your dessert will become as well-known and as much-loved as the Victoria Sponge. I can’t wait to taste the winning idea later this month.”

Justin Cohen, deputy editor of the Jewish News, is excited about the prospect of a new product on the shelves at Carmelli. “I love cake!” he says