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Cafés and bakeries in Warkworth are going head-to-head to earn bragging rights for the town’s most popular scone.
On the first Saturday of each month, Café Savan, Chocolate Brown Café, Let it Brew (the old Corner Café), Ginger Café, The Oaks Café, Picnix Bakery & Café, Riverview Café and Warkworth Bakehouse will bake scones for the public to taste and vote on.
Warkworth artist and potter Rick Urban, from Of Hand & Heart Gallery, came up with the idea after devouring and trying to recreate what he considers is possibly the world’s best savoury scone.
“The baker at a charming café in Paeroa told me some of her ingredients and, having never baked a scone in my life, I came home and Googled how to do it,” he says.
Only sparrows would eat his first attempts, but by his fifth try he was sharing them with friends and customers.
Rick canvassed local bakeries and cafes and found eight wanting to participate in the bake-off and secured One Warkworth Business Association support.
The inaugural bake-off will be from 9am to noon on Saturday, July 6. Posters and voting slips will be dotted around Warkworth, with a map of participating cafés and bakeries and instructions on how to cast a vote for your favourite scone.
