The World Pasty Championships will return to the Eden Project next March with new entry classes and a grand Oggy Oscars party, the Cornish attraction has announced.
The first-ever event of its kind was staged at the Eden Bakery this March and was hailed a great success. More than 100 competitors took part in the day-long celebration of Cornwall's most famous dish.
The competition, backed by the Cornish Pasty Association, saw amateur and professional bakers compete by baking traditional Cornish pasties or variations on the classic recipe.
While the traditional pasties had to stick to a strict set of guidelines, the open categories received entries such as wild rabbit, peas and lemon zest, and smoked fish topped with parsley and saffron.
In addition to the established classes, next year the championships will pit small, medium and large companies against each other with a new contest for bakeries under their own names. A children's class is also being devised.
The event will again take place on the Saturday before St Piran's Day, the traditional celebration of the national day of Cornwall.
In the coming weeks, Eden will announce full entry categories for the World Pasty Championships 2013 on its website www.edenproject.com.
Tony Trenerry, senior sous chef at the Eden Project, said: "The first-ever World Pasty Championships was great fun and a brilliant success, attracting entries from Cornwall, other parts of the UK and from as far afield as the USA.
"Thousands of people flocked in for the day and since then we have listened to feedback to try to make next year's event better and bigger still.
"As well as introducing a new class for companies to compete and a children's class, we are going to throw an Oggy Oscars party after the winners' trophies have been handed out to round off what we are confident will be another brilliant celebration of the pasty and the baking skills involved in making a good one."
Mark Muncey, chairman of the Cornish Pasty Association, said: "The first championships worked very well last year. This is a properly run and well-judged competition which we are happy to support. It's also a lot of fun.
"We suggested the new class so that companies can compete and we will be encouraging our members to have a go. Who wouldn't want to be crowned World Pasty Champion?"
The first-ever event of its kind was staged at the Eden Bakery this March and was hailed a great success. More than 100 competitors took part in the day-long celebration of Cornwall's most famous dish.
The competition, backed by the Cornish Pasty Association, saw amateur and professional bakers compete by baking traditional Cornish pasties or variations on the classic recipe.
While the traditional pasties had to stick to a strict set of guidelines, the open categories received entries such as wild rabbit, peas and lemon zest, and smoked fish topped with parsley and saffron.
In addition to the established classes, next year the championships will pit small, medium and large companies against each other with a new contest for bakeries under their own names. A children's class is also being devised.
The event will again take place on the Saturday before St Piran's Day, the traditional celebration of the national day of Cornwall.
In the coming weeks, Eden will announce full entry categories for the World Pasty Championships 2013 on its website www.edenproject.com.
Tony Trenerry, senior sous chef at the Eden Project, said: "The first-ever World Pasty Championships was great fun and a brilliant success, attracting entries from Cornwall, other parts of the UK and from as far afield as the USA.
"Thousands of people flocked in for the day and since then we have listened to feedback to try to make next year's event better and bigger still.
"As well as introducing a new class for companies to compete and a children's class, we are going to throw an Oggy Oscars party after the winners' trophies have been handed out to round off what we are confident will be another brilliant celebration of the pasty and the baking skills involved in making a good one."
Mark Muncey, chairman of the Cornish Pasty Association, said: "The first championships worked very well last year. This is a properly run and well-judged competition which we are happy to support. It's also a lot of fun.
"We suggested the new class so that companies can compete and we will be encouraging our members to have a go. Who wouldn't want to be crowned World Pasty Champion?"
