'We went from home baking to winning TV show'
Two amateur bakers from the UK, Dusica Roberts and Verity Malinowska, have won an international baking competition titled 'Bake Master Battles' on the Canadian Food Network. The pair, who started their business in a home kitchen, successfully created a zombie-themed cake sculpture to secure the win.
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Two bakers have won an international TV show with their cakes [Bake Master Battles] Two baker friends who started making cakes in their home kitchen have now won an international TV competition.
Dusica Roberts, from Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, and Verity Malinowska from Plymouth, took part in the TV series Bake Master Battles, a show on the Canadian Food Network.
The pair said winning the Halloween-themed episode, where they baked a zombie cake sculpture, was a "surreal" and "exciting" experience, as first reported by Burnham-on-Sea.com.
"As a child, you don't think, 'I'm going to make cakes when I'm older and go on international television'," Roberts said.
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Roberts was a chef before she had children and then decided to bake for them in her home kitchen.
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