The hunt is underway for this year’s best baker and Plant City’s Crumbles and Cream Kaffeehaus owner Grit Rambusch is hoping to snag the top prize.
The Greatest Baker is an online, public voting competition hosted by celebrity bakers Alice Fervonia and Sophie Faldo, both finalists from past seasons of the Great British Bake Off.
The winner will take home the title, $10,000 in prize money and a two-page feature in “Bake from Scratch” Magazine.
“The money and feature article would be tremendously helpful as I continue to grow my business,” said Rambusch.
Her growing business needs more storage space, a dough sheeter and the ability to take online orders.
Voting opened Monday, Oct. 24 and will continue until Thursday, November 3 at 7 p.m. PDT, when the contest will be narrowed down to the 20 competitors with the most votes. A winner will be selected on December 29.
Anyone who’s visited her bakery, located downtown at 113 South Evers Street, knows that her delicious baked goods, cakes and pastries, created with a German flair, are prize-worthy. Her signature bake is prasselkuchen, a buttery puff pastry with a thin layer of homemade cranberry fruit preserve spread, topped with crunchy but tender vanilla butter crumbles and drizzled with freshly squeezed lemon juice glaze after it comes out of the oven. She’s also taking orders for holiday bakes, including cinnamon rolls with cream cheese topping, apple and cranberry ies, dinner rolls, gingerbread, pumpkin rolls and stollen, which has to rest for weeks before it can be eaten. Yum.
To vote for Rambusch in The Greatest Baker competition, visit https://greatestbaker.com/2022/grit-rambusch. One free vote can be cast every 24 hours. For more information about Crumbles and Cream Kaffeehaus, visit www.crumblesandcream.com.
“It would be quite something to bring the trophy home to Plant City,” said Rambusch.