Sugar shock! Cake competition at Life Science

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27/09-11 kl. 10:27 Campus / Life Science / cake / cake competition

Café Væksthuset, the student-run café at the Faculty of Life Science, held its third annual cake competition on Monday 26 September. Five teams joined the competition and had created some beautiful and tasty cakes for the event. There were prizes for the three best cakes.

The lucky judges for the event were two members of the Café's student board and the café's cook. The cakes were assessed on looks, aroma, texture, taste and overall appearance.

Last year’s first place winner tried to repeat last year’s big success, but this time with a totally new cake: A fine chocolate mousse with crunchy nuts with a thin layer of jelly made from the juice of sea buckthorn. It was decorated with sea buckthorn berries and chocolate-coated leaves from the same plant. Even though it was very nice this cake didn’t go the whole way, and instead ended up as number two.

The winners this year were four landscape architect students who had made six blackberry and raspberries pies with sweet cream and liquorice powder on top. The four winning girls each won a voucher worth ten cups of coffee at the café. The winning cake will be made and sold in the café.

This fall the greenhouse café, Café Væksthuset, will round off its fourth summer season. It opened early in 2007 as part of the Faculty's 150 year’s anniversary. It has, from the beginning, been operated by students from the Faculty of Life Science.

Text and photos by Allan Højgaard Jensen

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