Be a "record baker" with BBC Radio Gloucestershire!
Children In Need
BE A "RECORD BAKER" WITH BBC RADIO GLOUCESTERSHIRE!
For this year's BBC Children In Need appeal, BBC Radio Gloucestershire is hoping to break a Guinness World Record for the longest line of cakes, but we need your help to it. If you would like to be involved in the record attempt, please read on.
THE WORLD RECORD
At the moment the World Record for the Longest Line of Cakes stands at 607 metres and is held by a town in Columbia. To beat the record, we're aiming for more than 14,500 cupcakes. It's quite a challenge, but WE CAN DO IT.
THE RULES FOR THE ATTEMPT ARE PRETTY STRICT
- We need the cupcakes to be the same
- - The cakes must contain traditional ingredients in the correct proportions (so please stick to the official recipe!)
- The cupcakes must be in a continuous line (but it doesn't have to be straight)
- There can't be any gaps between the cupcakes
GETTING YOUR CAKES TO US
There are a number of options for getting your World Record Breaking cupcakes to us:
On Thursday, 13 November you can drop them off at one of our EIGHT Collection Points around Gloucestershire (listed below - please check the opening times for each Collection Point)
On Friday, 14 November from 0800-1300 you can bring your cakes to Gloucestershire Airport, GL51 6SR.
Click here for the Google Map directions.
When you drop your cakes off please make a donation to Children In Need. We’re trying to make as much money as possible for this great charity.
THE "OFFICAL" CUPCAKE RECIPE
We need the cupcakes to be the same - so please stick to the recipe! (although you can do your own decoration!)
(This makes a batch of 12 cupcakes, but we'd love you to make as many batches as you can, as we need A LOT of cupcakes).
INGREDIENTS
For the cupcakes
110g/4oz butter or margarine, softened at room temperature
110g/4oz caster sugar
2 free-range eggs, lightly beaten
1 tsp vanilla extract
110g/4oz self-raising flour
1-2 tbsp milk
For the icing (you can decorate the cupcakes in your own style, but here’s a simple idea!)
110g/4oz icing sugar
2 dessert spoons of warm water
6 glacé cherries (halved)
SIZE
Please use a muffin tray with base of cupcakes approx. 5cm
PREPARATION METHOD
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and line a 12-hole muffin tin with paper cases. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale. Beat in the eggs a little at a time and stir in the vanilla extract. Fold in the flour using a large metal spoon, adding a little milk until the mixture is of a dropping consistency. Spoon the mixture into the paper cases until they're half full. Bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes, or until golden-brown on top, and a skewer inserted into one of the cakes comes out clean. Set aside to cool for 10 minutes, then remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.
Making the icing
Mix the icing sugar and 2 dessert spoons of warm water together. If the mix won’t absorb all of the icing sugar, add more warm water gradually. The icing mix needs to be stiff and not run off the cakes. If it’s too runny then add more icing sugar gradually. When the cakes have cooled spoon 1 teaspoon of icing on to each cake and smooth with the back of the spoon. Put ½ a cherry on top of each cake.
Stay safe
Please follow this Food Safety Advice when making your cupcakes
Wash your hands before preparing food
Make sure the surfaces, bowls, utensils and equipment are clean
Make sure the cakes are thoroughly cooked
Storage and Transportation
Please keep your cakes in a cool, dry place. When you deliver your cakes to a collection point it’s really important that you bring your cakes in a sealed box. It could be an old ice cream tub, or a box sealed with cling film. Please remember WE CANNOT RETURN ANY BOXES
ON THE DAY
BBC Radio Gloucestershire will try to break the record on Friday, 14 November, at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton, GL51 6SR.
You are welcome to come and watch the record attempt the official measuring will be at 16.30. You can park in the main Airport car park: Google Map link here
You are welcome to come along for the Official Record Attempt at 1630 - simply come to the main terminal building at Gloucestershire Airport.
After the attempt the cakes must be donated for general consumption so we’d love you to come and pick up some cupcakes at the end of the day.
You’ll be able to pick up some cupcakes between 1700-1800 from Gloucestershire Airport on Friday.
The event will be filmed, photographed and broadcast on BBC Radio Gloucestershire.
Please note we cannot return any boxes that the cakes are delivered in!
Please note we cannot guarantee the cakes won’t contain traces of nuts. They will contain eggs, milk and gluten.
WHAT IS BBC CHILDREN IN NEED?
BBC Children in Need exists to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.
FIND OUT MORE
http://www.bbc.co.uk/childreninneed
DONATE
Creating the World’s Longest Line of Cakes is a big challenge and it's all in aid of BBC Children In Need. We want to raise as much money as we can for this great cause.
You can make a donation to Children in Need when you drop of your cakes at our Collection Points on Thursday, 13 November or at Gloucestershire Airport.
You can also donate online:
Click here to donate.
COLLECTION POINTS
Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury Town Hall, High Street, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 5AL.
Collection: 0800-1700 (Thursday)
Stroud
Stratford Park Leisure Centre, Stratford Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4AF.
Collection: 0800-1800 (Thursday)
Cotswolds
Bourton Leisure Centre, Station Road, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, GL54 2BD.
Collection: 0800-1800 (Thursday)
New Brewery Arts Centre, Theatre Building, Cirencester, GL7 1JL.
Collection: 0830-1800 (Thursday)
Forest Of Dean
Cinderford Belle Vue Centre, 6 Belle Vue Road, Cinderford, Gloucestershire, GL14 2AB.
Collection: 0800-1700 (Thursday)
Gloucester
BBC Radio Gloucestershire, London Road, Gloucester, GL1 1SW.
Collection: 0800-1800 (Thursday)
Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL51 6SR.
Collection: 0800-1800 (Thursday)
Collection: 0800-1300 (Friday)
Cheltenham
Leisure @ Leisure Centre, Tommy Taylors Lane, Cheltenham, GL50 4RN.
Collection: 0800-1700 (Thursday)
Cheltenham Town Hall
Imperial Square
Cheltenham
GL50 1SQ
Collection 1000-1700 (Thursday)
