Enjoying baking conditions - The Jewish Chronicle

It was hardly nouvelle cuisine. But Leeds' Great Jewish Bake Off certainly whetted the appetites of the judges.

Based loosely on BBC's The Great British Bake Off, the 11 contestants made biscuits, hamantashen

(in honour of Purim) and, to finish, chocolate cake.

King David School pupil Daniel Sacks, 15, was "a bit shocked" to win the biscuits round. "I don't really bake much at home, if at all," he confessed. "But the idea of a bake off was really exciting."

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