If you love baking, here’s a great giveaway for you! The Cupcake Company, based in Letchworth, is very kindly giving away a host of baking goodies to the lucky winner. This fab prize includes: oven gloves, apron, tea towels, recipe tin, tray and two easy-bake kits.
How to enter
To enter, all you need to do is comment below on this post and tell us your favourite type of cake to bake!
The closing date for this competition is midnight GMT on Friday, 26 May. Full terms and conditions of entry are listed below.
Good luck!
Terms and conditions of entry
- Open to UK residents over 18 years old.
- Only one entry allowed per person.
- This giveaway will run until midnight GMT on Friday, 26 May 2017. Entries submitted after this date will not be eligible to win.
- The winner will be selected at random and notified within seven days of the competition closing.
- The prize is as stated in the competition and cannot be substituted.
- The winner’s name may be announced on the Mums Off Duty website and related social media channels.
359 comments
Favourite cake to bake is an orange sponge with white chocolate icing 😀🍰
Yum! Thank you for entering Jo!
Got to be carrot cake.
Thanks for entering Hannah, good luck!
Cupcakes with swirly colourful icing
Mmm! Good luck!
I can’t choose one! My favourite cakes to bake are lemon and poppyseed and a chocolate ganache cake. 😀
Ha! Both sound delicious. Good luck!
Jumbo muffins. I found a great recipe online which seems to work really well every time I’ve baked it, resulting in huge coffee shop type muffins.
Wow, these sound amazing!
Chocolate cake
Chocolate is always good. Thanks for entering!
Lemon drizzle cake is my favourite
A classic! Good luck.
Raspberry vanilla cupcakes or classic brownies. Way too difficult to chose just one.
I know, too many to choose from! Good luck Sarah!
Lemon drizzle cake with plenty of drizzle
Delish! Thank for entering, good luck Justine.
I love to bake double baked new your cheesecake!
Mmm! Good luck, thanks for entering Ruth.
My favourite cake to bake is a Chocolate sponge
Chocolate is my fave too. Good luck Steph!
I love to bake a bakewell tart to enjoy with homemade custard!
My mum used to make homemade custard but I’ve never tried it. Maybe I should! Thanks for entering Tracy.
I love to make a simple lemon drizzle
Yum! Good luck Catherine.
I love a traditional victoria sponge
Such a classic! Thanks for entering Kim.
I love fruit scones
Yes! I haven’t made them in years though. Thanks for entering Jean, good luck.
A Victoria sponge for sure. Lots of cream and jam 😃
Classic! Good luck in the giveaway Nicole.
I like to bake victoria sponge cakes
Thanks for entering, good luck.
Carrot cake!
Good luck Liz, thanks for entering!
Baileys Cheesecake<3
Yum! Good luck.
I love baking a good Victoria Sponge with Jam and Cream, then i love adding fondant icing and creating something special for somebody.
Sounds good! Thanks for entering.
I absolutely love baking pineapple upside down cake! not only it it super sweet and moist, it’s really fun when you turn it out from the pan!
Wow that sounds amazing, and tasty! Good luck.
It has to be carrot cake every time! delicious!
Good luck Katherine!
I love to bake a Greek yoghurt chocolate cake with chocolate yoghurt ganache. It’s so moist and light and using coconut oil makes it tastes even better!
Yes, coconut oil is amazing! Good luck!
Chocolate cake, a good moist gooey one.
Love chocolate! Thanks for entering.
I love to bake chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream as it tastes so much better than shop bought ones
Good luck Shelly!
victoria sponge
Good luck Karim.
My favourite is a vanilla & strawberry cheesecake! My ultimate guilty pleasure.
Don’t feel guilty! Good luck!
Jamie Oliver’s carrot cake, can’t recommend it highly enough
Thanks for entering Diana.
A good old fashioned victoria sponge or lemon drizzle.
Good luck Debbie!
It has to be a Victoria sponge cake.
I love to bake cupcakes in different flavours with different fillings & toppings 🙂 x
A simple Victoria Sponge
I love baking with the kids. Our favourite cake to bake is a chocolate and vanilla marble cake.
Gosh that’s quite a difficult one to answer as I enjoy making lots of different cakes. One that’s very easy to make and always turns out very well is a chocolate and almond cake.
I love baking a chocolate truffle cake !
I love baking fruit cake, it’s so moist and delicious
I love to make old-fashioned seed cakes or lemon madeira.
My favourite type of cake to bake is fairy cakes
It has to be carrot cake. Love the icing the most!
Coffee & Walnut Cake
christmas cake as its a once a year event and makes the house smell like christmas.
I love all cake but today a chocolate cake for me and my little boy to share 😀
I have a great recipe I use often for a cranberry streusel cake in a ring tin
Hi Val, you have won the competition! Congratulations! I’ve sent you an email with the details. Congrats again!
Wow thanks Natalie
Salted caramel apple cake!
That sounds amazing!
Chocolate cake with chocolate fudge icing
I’m not the most skilled baker, but I really can make an good tangy lemon drizzle cake! 🙂
Thank you x
Coffee cake <3
Lemon Drizzle Cake
Chocolate Fudge Cake
A well drizzled lemon drizzle cake
Victoria sponge cake with jam, buttercream and icing……I could just eat some!
I love making coffee cake. It makes the house smell amazing!
i love baking toffee apple fudge cake
Chocolate fudge cake, well because it’s my favourite to eat! X
It has to be a lovely lemon drizzle mmm!
Carrot cake
Carrot cake. It is the best cake.
Strawberry milkshake cake reminds me of my childhood
Victoria sandwich
Carrot cake.
My favourite cake to bake is coffee and walnut cake!
I love baking my mother in laws Carrot cake recipe. It is amazing!
Has to be lemon and poppy seed for me.
I love chocolate fudge cake I have to make one every week for my Grandsons.
i’m getting quite good at parkin cake so im loving that
Cherry cake is my favourite and because my kids don’t like cherries, I get to eat it all myself which is really naughty but tastes great.
I love baking Victoria Sponge, I like to decorate it with fresh strawberries.
I love creating new & original recipes. 2 of my family & friend favourites are my Apple Topped Honey & Whisky Drizzle cake which won me a prize with Bramley Apples & my Apple & Orange Marmalade cake
I love to make double chocolate gateau. I learnt to make it at school and has since become make favourite cake to bake.
Banana muffins
Me and my daughter do a fab malteser cake. It is very yummy, and Amber stirs it for me!
Lemon drizzle cake
Chocolate cake
I love making carrot cake
My favourite cake to bake is a Victoria sponge. With 14 hens we always have a good supply of tasty free range eggs! Yum!
Can’t go wrong with a victoria sponge!
Banana and honey spiced loaf x
Baileys rocky road brownies
i love making bakewell tarts
I love to make Milk chocolate cake, my family’s favorite
I love baking banana cakes x
Lemon Drizzle is my favourite bake
brownies!
Lemon drizzle!
love to bake a coffee and walnut cake
Lemon drizzle cake. And the oven gloves you are offering match my apron!
i love citrus or veggie cakes, lemon & courgette is super yummy x
A victoria sponge
I love making a good zesty lemon drizzle
I love a nice Victoria sponge with loads of raspberry jam
Carrot cake, yum!
A simple victoria sponge. I’m still a novice when it comes to baking!
My favourite cake to bake is a lemon drizzle it is so simple and tastes lovely
Carrot cake all the way!!
The best cake ever, the lovely Victoria Sponge
love baking fruit cakes, so at Christmas I am in seventh heaven
I love to make teabread using a family recipe
Banana Cake!
Got a ton of homemade banana cake stocked up in the freezer, so good <3
Definitely love to bake white cake with a whipped cream filling and chunks of strawberries in between the layers. Sometimes if I’m feeling even more indulgent there’s a white chocolate icing to go on too with fresh strawberry decorations. YUM YUM
Chocolate cake with a Nutella filling
Lemon cake is my favourite to bake.
Raspberry & chocolate
chocolate cake
My favourite cake to bake is apple cinnamon cake/muffins. It’s easy and i can’t mess it up (i’m trying to improve, but not a great baker!), plus with apple in it, i feel like i’m being a little bit healthy..kind of
Favourite cake to bake is normally a moist sugar free banana cake – as a sort of bread pudding texture
Chocolate cake
Courgette an Lime cake, it’s far more zingier than a carrot cake.
i love baking chocolate cakes – just for the taste
Welsh girl here, so got to be bara brith!
I love baking a good old Victoria Sponge!
love making cupcakes and eating them straight from the oven 🙂
I love to back chocolate and vanilla marble cup akes
carrot cake
lemon drizze cake
Coffee and Walnut cake
I love baking princess cupcakes with my daughter
The good old Victoria Sponge with fresh cream and a dusting of icing sugar.
Gluten free Victoria sponge cake for a special family treat. Our family has many Coeliac sufferers so there is nothing nicer for them then a fresh slice of gluten free cake now and again.
Victoria sponge love it
Has to be lemon drizzle 🙂
Apple pie with custard 😍😍😍
Lemon Drizzle Cake
I love making lemon drizzle cake
Loving making a homemade carrot cake x
Chocolate sponge
I love making red velvet cakes and cupcakes
My favourite cake to bake has to be coffee cake with its butter icing inside and on top and decorated with walnuts.
This is a fantastic prize thank you! The only cake I’ve ever been able to successfully bake is a Victoria sponge! We are mainly a cupcake and cookie house. My daughter has recently caught to baking bug and always seems to be in the kitchen at the moment (mainly covering it flour)
Lemon Drizzle – Mmmm
Salted caramel cupcakes with salted caramel butter icing. Yum!
Victoria Sponge. Thankyou for the competition x
Victoria Sponge, with buttercream filling
Chocolate cake because it’s my sons favourite so he likes to help me bake
Chocolate fudge cake.
Victoria sponge
My favourite cake to make is ginger cake.
coffee cake is my fave
A deliciously moist coconut cup cake with a cream cheese topping, gorgeous!!
Nutella cupcakes with lovely Nutella buttercream
It has to be my cherry and amaretto chocolate brownies, they always seem to go down well!
I love baking red velvet cupcakes or chocolate brownies!
chocolate chip cookies
Definitely coffee- yummy, with chocolate topping!
Pineapple upside down cake
I love making fruit cake – it reminds me of baking with my Mum and Grandma when I was little!
Lemon drizzle cake. Simple to make and tasty.
A big Farmhouse cake
My favourite is ginger cake
Cup cakes as you can have so many varieties and different types of toppings
Victoria sponge
Fruit Cake, so easy
My fave is coffee cake with plenty of buttercream icing 🙂
Victoria sponge, so satisfying getting an even rise.
Carrot cake!
Lemon drizzle
Banana and Walnut cake
MARBLE CAKE
A moist banana cake! There isn’t enough of it around in my opinion!!!
chocolate and guiness cake!
its got to be a coffee and walnut cake!!
Banana and chocolate cake is my go too because it’s so simple to throw together! If I’m making an effort than my fave to make is a decadent chocolate cake!
Red velvet!
Victoria Sponge for me.
I like baking clotted shortbread
Lemon drizzle!
Carrot cake!
carrot cake of course
has to be Victoria sponge, then let the kids decorate the top
chocolate cake
Carrot cake – mostly because it’s my favourite type of cake to eat 😉
Chocolate with a little coffee.
Brownies are my fave if that counts as a cake. Otherwise Victoria Sponge
My favourite cake to bake is a Hummingbird Cake – easy but delicious and the whole family enjoy it!
Carrot cake…mmm (even if it’s hard work grating all the carrots!)
carrot cake
Coffee and Walnut cake is my favourite to bake…..and eat!
Cheesecake I just love the strawberry one
Victoria sponge, filled with dream topping and strawberries from the garden
Chocolate chip with vanilla icing.
Chocolate cake of course
I’ve always liked pineapple upside down cake as It was the first one I learned.
A like to make a lemon drizzle cake best of all
Delia’s flapjack with extra syrup for gorgeous gooey-ness – easy peasy and never goes wrong!
A chocolate sandwich sponge cake with vanilla buttercream filling
Dead simple but I love Banana cake, it;s morish and squidgy! yummy x
I make some yummy vegan vanilla cupcakes, even non vegans love them.
Coffee and Walnut – a family favourite!
Red velvet cake!
Chocolate cake
A chocolate peppermint cake it’s yummy and dear late mum loved it when I baked it for her
A Beetroot and chocolate loaf
Lemon Drizzle
As I always have browning bananas, its got to be banana cake with a banana butter cream or custard
Butterfly cakes filled with homemade rasperry jam and whipped cream and sprinkled with a dusting of icing sugar. Lovely with a pot of tea.
I adore coconut sponge. It’s so yummy. Or my second choice is a custard tart.
My favorite cake to bake is carrot cake 😍😍😍
Love to bake fruit tea cake and anything to do with chocolate! lol
Fairy cakes.
chocolate cake
Lemon drizzle cake
chocolate chip cake!
fudge cake there more chocolate the better x
Love making my children the hedgehog cake – chocolate sponge, chocolate icing and either flakes or matchmakers as the spikes!
I absolutely adore rhubarb, orange, ginger and almond cake. Yum!
Rhubarb Crumble Cake.
Salted caramel cupcakes are my favourite – although anything with buttercream icing makes me swoon. Great contest.
Mini red velvet cupcakes with vanilla buttercream! I can make over 100 in one go!
Coffee and Brandy cake with fresh cream
Chocolate fudge cake is my all time favourite to bake.
Double Chocolate Fudge Cake With Smarties On-Top 😉
I love a good victoria sponge
I can’t choose between lemon drizzle or apple/rhubarb crumble cake, both are family favourites
I love making a carrot cake but my family’s favourite is the chocolate fudge cake I make
Mine is a chocolate cake… so I can lick the bowl haha!
I love making a Victoria Sponge
For me it has to be a chocolate cake love baking them and enjoying eating them too
My favourite cake to bake is Lemon Drizzle cake as it’s always a winner with my family and friends.
Salted Caramel Mmmmmm
The classic Victoria Sponge!
I’m rather partial to a coffee and walnut cake! Would you like a slice?
Chocolate Cake
I love making a what resembles a Victoria Sponge, I am improving though 🙂
My favourite cake to bake is a plant based banana and amaretto cake. Yum!
Carrot Cake
Banana cake
Mine is a boiled fruit cake but no one else will eat it, so a Victoria sandwich is the 2nd fave to bake
Lemon drizzle cake
Mine is chocolate cake
I love to bake a pumpkin spice loaf.
I love baking Carrot Cake with sultanas in
Fresh Cream Sponge topped with strawberries.
Lemon Cheesecake
Lemon drizzle, the drizzlier the better 🙂
Lemon drizzle cake xx
A piñata cake stuffed full of sweeties!! Yum
Love coffee and walnut cake, might have to put it into cupcakes with walnut on the top, yummy!
I love to bake either carrot cake or a chocolate Guiness cake – both delicious and moist!
Syrup sponge, I’m not the best baker
red velvet cake
A chocolate devil cake!
Triple chocolate fudge brownie cake
Carrot cake
Chocolate olive oil cake. Yum!
Mine is Grandma’s rough fruit cake. She taught me to make it in the 1950’s when money was very tight. The recipe was very flexible and depended on what she had in her cupboard and what she could afford to buy that day. Nowadays my recipe is more consistent 🙂
victoria sponge cake
coffee cake is my absolute favourite to make and eat!
Battenberg cake. Nostalgic, pink and square.
Carrot Cake
To make has to be a strawberries & cream type – usually victoria sponge, although cupcakes can be a dream. Eating on the other hand… definitely triple chocolate!
Lemon drizzel cake is my favourite to bake.
Apple Cake is our favourite
Lemon drizzle is my favourite!
I love to make a Guinness chocolate cake.. its so rich and moist and the whole family loves it!
strawberry and cream cupcakes
Salted caramel cake, absolutely wonderful on its own, or with cream as a dessert!
I love making a classic Victoria sponge
beetroot brownies 🙂 YUUUUMMMM
Cupcakes with buttercream (lots) on the top
Any cake with chocolate x
Coffee cake! Yum
Has to be a colourful rainbow cake
I love making an Apple cake, its great served hot or cold, problem is it never lasts very long in the house xxxx
carrot cake using carrots grown on my allotment 🙂
I like making a Victoria Sponge or a Lemon Drizzle cake.
lemon drizzle cake
Oh now thats hard mmmmm (10 mins later) my favourite cake to bake has to be a triple chocolate fudgecake
victoria sponge
Love Carrot Cake.
apple turnovers
Chocolate cake but it’s never as good as my Nan’s 😀
Black forest cupcakes.. yum!!
Carrot cake 🙂
chocolate fudgecake
My Favourite cake to bake is Lemon Drizzle cake.
Victoria sponge cake is my favourite
I love baking a classic lemon drizzle!
My favourite is my chocolate orange almond cake, both dairy and gluten free, yet yummy
Victoria sponge with a raspberry jam filling
Cheese cake is my favourite
Love Carrot cake
Caraway seed cake 🙂
Red Velvet cupcakes
Chocolate and beetroot
I love to bake lemon drizzle cake🍰🍰
I love to make double choc chip coffee cake
Chocolate cupcake are my favourite
My Gluten-free, vegan, Cherry and Almond Cake.
Chocolate fudge cake x
Marble Cake 🙂
I love baking coffee and walnut cake or lemon drizzle
I love baking all the time! My favourite is either brownies or lemon madeira
Carrot cake! Great giveaway! 💜 Thanks so much! 😊
coffee cake delicious always a favourite
Good old chocolate cake
My favourite cake to bake (and eat!) is lemon drizzle
LIke to make banana Loaf with walnuts so easy and great way to use up ripe Bananas less food waste
Red velvet cake
victoria sponge
Victoria sponge
Victoria Sponge or chocolate orange cupcakes – I can’t decide
i bake alot of muffins and lately have been baking breakfast muffins for my tribe to walk to school with as none of them eat proper breakfast, ive made blueberry muffins and chocolate and lemon etc although i make a lot of muffins my actual favourite cake is chocolate, anything chocolate and im in my glory. (self confessed chocaholic) but i dont actually bake chocolate cake i always cheat and buy it.
Chocolate Fudge Cake
I like baking vanilla spongecake with chocolate fudge icing
Double chocolate muffins are my favourite to bake.
My current favourite is a courgette and lime cake! Perfect for summer and a glut of courgettes!
For me its a Victoria Sponge
Chocolate cake 🙂
Some nice Welsh Cakes
Our favourite treat to bake,
Is a great big chocolate cake!!!!!!
Chocolate cake.
Victoria sponge
carrot and walnut cake with cinnamon frosting, its yummy!
I love baking brownies or a sponge cake for the kids to decorate 🙂
Pineapple upside down cake,a good old classic that’s perfect for this time of year,scrummy!!!!! and so Moorish.
Dark chocolate, Pear and walnut cake is my favourite to bake-it doesn’t last long mind! 🙂
Carrot cake is my favourite!
Don’t know if they’re really a “cake” as such but I love baking peanut butter brownies!
I love to bake a fruit cake
I really enjoy baking a nice Victoria sandwich looks so lovely when it done and it usually tastes nice
I have a carrot cake in the oven right now but generally prefer making chocolate cake.
strawberry cheese cake
cup cakes
Gluten free lemon drizzle cake xx
carrot cake
A Victoria sponge
I love making succulent carrot cake with sultanas, walnuts and cream cheese frosting, almost perfected!
Love baking fairy cakes with the kiddies