Last year, Clarkson and I embarked on a cake making competition. Needless to say, she won, but here are our two entries: a cake version of my cardboard car made by Clarkson and the Millennium Dome/Canary Wharf at night made by me.

Cakes are notoriously difficult to make well, since not only do you have to follow a recipe carefully, but you can’t just sellotape things together. Everything used needs to be edible in some way and edible things are just not very good for making interesting structures.

My initial plan was to make a teacup cake, but they went badly wrong when my attempt to stack cakes on top of each other failed after a collapse around the edges. Luckily I had Askeys tube things sticking out so I was able to swiftly change the type of cake I was making before the end of the competition.

Here are some other examples of impressive cakes…we clearly have a long way to go before matching their skills:

• I particularly like the the money machine one
• The geekiest cakes ever, including a really good Optimus Prime one
• Horrendous website, but good cakes nonetheless

This years cake making competition is coming up next month and so hopefully my abilities will have improved.