Big win for talented young baker
Lydia Horne, 20, put her baking skills to the test in a prestigious competition and came out on top, not once but twice.
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LYDIA Horne has mixed, whizzed and iced her way to the top of the baking charts placing first in the Queensland leg of the LA Judge Awards.
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The 20-year-old baker from Sheldon followed her Queensland win with second place at the National titles in Sydney in May.
Ms Horne said she was always drawn to food but didn’t know she wanted to be a baker until she worked at a popular Redlands bakery.
“After always being around Mum who would be baking, I knew I loved food and making people happy,” she said.
“The school I went to (Faith Lutheran College) offered work experience to see what career path we would be interested in after school.
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“I first tried working alongside the chef’s at Sirromet - not for me - then tested my skills as baker and pastry chef at Banjos Bakery in Cleveland and knew that was the career for me.”
The competition was the first of what Ms Horne said will be “many”, and the proof of her talents really are in the pudding.
“We made light rye square loaves, baguettes, Vienna’s, plaits, rolls, cobs, tank loaves, an exhibition piece which was displayed at the awards night along with the decorative plaque that represented our workplace,” she said.
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“The plaque is a skilled piece to create, with 90 minutes on the clock the plaque is made from white, green, yellow and red dough to reflect what you do at your workplace.
“It is a very hard competition, with time limits on the tests, new machinery and on our last speech we are only given approximately 38 hours to prepare, even between all our baking, tests and dinners we had each night.”
Ms Horne who makes a “mean chocolate mud cake” currently works at Creative Crusts in Belmont said making people happy with her food was the best part.
“To create something that people can enjoy is very rewarding.”
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