Calling all bakers

Make a mean birthday cake?


Fairway is sponsoring a Best Birthday Cake in Brooklyn Contest in June and is looking for both professional and non-professional bakers to participate. 


You can sign up here by May 20 to compete, no fee required.


The best birthday cake we ever had was a rainbow cake, so if you make something like that, you'd have our vote.


Not that we're voting - the creations will be judged by Sarah Black, bakery director for Fairway, Matt Lewis from Baked on Van Brunt Street, and Lauri Ditunno from "Cake Alchemy." Winners get a prize, as well as, of course, bragging rights. 


It all goes down on June 11 at 5 pm in the waterfront park behind Ikea in Red Hook. So you have plenty of time to get baking.