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Are you ready to crumble?
The final of the inaugural Crumble Rumble competition got heated at Ashton Court as groups of Year 5 children from six Bristol primary schools vied to make the most delectable dessert.
The last round of the bake-off began with the children picking fruit from trees on the estate, before they got ready to crumble in the mansion’s kitchens.
Some would say it was a recipe for disaster letting 20 children bake competitively, but luckily they had considerable help from the chefs who work there.
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After a chaotic hour’s work, the young competitors took a quick trip to the orchard and a visit to see the deer, by which time the crumbles were crisping up, ready to be tasted by judge Charlie James, head chef at the River Cottage Canteen restaurant on Whiteladies Road.
All the crumbles were highly commended, but when it boiled down to it the winners were clearly Hillcrest Primary School.
Their recipe will now be sold in the cafes at Ashton Court and Blaise Castle, and for their troubles the winning team also won a trip to Bristol Zoo.
Although this year’s tournament has now come to a close, the Crumble Rumble is by no means over.
The participating children have already planted fruit trees at home and in their school grounds so they can harvest the fruit to use in next year’s edition.
The bake-off was part of the education programme One Tree Per Child, which was co-founded by Olivia Newton-John. It initiated in Australia but began in Bristol in 2015 and has since then successfully planted over one tree for every primary school child in the city.
Since its success here, the charity has planted trees everywhere from Australia to Kenya and South Sudan, with Jamaica and the USA next on the list.
Over the next four years the team aim to plant 6,000 trees per year, working with reception aged children starting at school.
