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The Jenkins Bakery is celebrating National Cup Cake Week. The event is organised by the British Baker magazine and website. To mark the occasion, the Llanelli-based bakery has produced special cup cakes which will be on sale all this week and next week. The Scarlets had a helping hand to launch National Cup Cake Week from rugby stars Jacobie Adriaanse and Frazier Climo. The players from the Llanelli Scarlets rugby region thought the cup cakes looked delicious. The Cup Cake Week special cakes include - COOKIE MONSTER CUP CAKE Our top quality sponge topped with various flavoured frostings, covered in coloured vermicelli and decorated with chocolate Maltesers for eyes and a small shortbread biscuit for a mouth, a great one for children. ROCKY ROAD CUP CAKE Our top quality chocolate sponge, topped with various flavoured frostings, decorated with mini marshmallows, small chocolate balls and scattered with milk chocolate. About National Cupcake Week This event is brought to yo...

Two talented cake-makers from the Jenkins Bakery have won a place in the National Cup Cakes finals. Cake department manager Sarah Williams and trainee Alex Cowell were picked out of 350 entries nationwide for a place in the finals. The event is organised by the British Baker magazine and website. The ‘live’ finals will take place at the National Exhibition centre (NEC) in Birmingham in November. Jenkins Bakery operations director Russell Jenkins said: “It’s already been very successful year for us in terms of awards, but we are delighted with this latest success. “We believe in competing against the very best in the baking and cake-making industry. Competitions like this one help our staff hone their skills to a very sharp level. We wish Sarah and Alex all the very best in the heat of the kitchen in the finals.” There were four categories in the competition: ‘Classic’, ‘Themed’, ‘Free-from’ and ‘Made with Alcohol’. The judges whittled down the entries, based on recipe, appearance, in...

The Jenkins Bakery is celebrating National Cup Cake Week. The event is organised by the British Baker magazine and website. To mark the occasion, the Llanelli-based bakery has produced four special cup cakes which will be on sale all this week and next week. They are -  COOKIE MONSTER CUP CAKE – 95p Our top quality sponge topped with various flavoured frostings, covered in coloured vermicelli and decorated with chocolate Maltesers for eyes and a small shortbread biscuit for a mouth, a great one for children. 99 CUP CAKE – 95p Our top quality sponge topped with vanilla and chocolate frosting and decorated with a chocolate flake. BLACK FOREST CUP CAKE – 95p Our top quality chocolate sponge, topped with swirls of vanilla and chocolate frosting to give a marbled effect and decorated with a cherry. ROCKY ROAD CUP CAKE – 95p Our top quality chocolate sponge, topped with various flavoured frostings, decorated with mini marshmallows, small chocolate balls a...