Canberra bakers, pre-heat your oven - the PANDSI Cake-off is back, with a cake theme a little closer to home.
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The 2016 PANDSI cake-off saw all 107 cakes from the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cakes cookbook in one room, with crowds of around 1500 streaming through Hyatt Hotel Canberra to catch a glimpse.
This year, the cake theme is Canberra, and the creations of all 70 selected participants will be included in a cookbook later this year.
Registrations for bakers open on March 8, and PANDSI president Christine Spicer encouraged locals to get creative when it came to showing off the nation's capital in cake form.
"As long as it represents Canberra in some way, then we'd love to have it involved," Ms Spicer said.
PANDSI held a mini cake-off in November to get the creative juices flowing around Canberra-themed cakes - entries included a Raiders jersey, Moosehead cupcakes, a magpie swooping a helmet and a Canberra bus shelter.
"Someone did a rubbish bin with RIP on it for the Private Bin, and a hot air balloon with Smarties," Ms Spicer said.
"People might just say, 'I'm gonna do a cake that's just made out of local ingredients', so that could be a good way around it if you're not much of a cake modeller, a good way to still be involved."
At the registration, participants just need to suggest the Canberra-themed cake they'd like to make. Numbers are capped at 70 people, with those who participated last year or who have supported PANDSI getting preference.
All of the selected cakes will then go on display at Hyatt Hotel Canberra on May 13.
"We learnt a lot from last year and this year we're going to ticket the event. We're hoping that will at least give us some idea and allow us to plan a little more," Ms Spicer said.
"And at least if people miss out they can get the cookbook to be part of it."
The event is again a fundraiser for PANDSI, a support group for Canberra families suffering from post- and ante-natal maternal depression. Cakes will be auctioned off and businesses can also sponsor cakes, with the entry raising the most money securing the cover of the cookbook.
"It's all cake and it's all fun, but a big bit of it is reducing the stigma around peri-natal mental health issues," Ms Spicer.
"I hope Canberra gets behind it. Last year people were so generous with their time and the effort they put into all their cakes. I'm hoping we get that again."
Registrations open March 8 at pandsi.org/cake-off-2017.html.