By Millie Bowman (The Record Review)
The Pound Ridge Partnership organization held a bake-off on the green in Scotts Corners on June 3. Residents in Pound Ridge were encouraged to enter their cakes, cookies or pies, with a chance to win the competition and prizes along with it.
The bake-off took place after the Pound Ridge Color Run, starting at 10:30 a.m. The event provided a junior bakers category for bakers 12 years of age or under who wanted to enter the competition. There was also an adult bakers category, offering the chance to become the grand prize winner and take home a new Cuisinart KitchenAid Mixer.
The Bake-Off committee chair, Karen McInerney, selected members of Pound Ridge organizations and local businesses to be the judges. The panel of judges included Jason Bowman, of BreadsNBakes, Jehan de Noue, chef at Albano Appliances, Yajaira Velez, head baker at The Market at Pound Ridge Square, Liz Larkin, founder of Mrs. Larkins, David Schlack, owner of North Star Restaurant, Kevin Hansan, Pound Ridge town supervisor, Stephanie Bell, principal of Pound Ridge Elementary School, and Sam Dodge, Pound Ridge Fire Department. The event was emceed by Patti D’Agostino.
The judges sampled all of the submissions and rated them on a scale of one to five, based on their taste, texture and appearance. Once all the baked goods were tasted, the volunteers tallied up the votes and the junior, adult and grand prize winners were announced.
Lillian Siders won first place in the junior bakers category for her oink oink cake and was awarded a gift basket courtesy of Booksy Galore. Anya Leist won first place for the adult baker category for her carrot cake, and Erin Trostle was the Bake-Off grand prize winner for her orange sunshine cake.
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