Have your recipe using Fairtrade ingredients published! Publishers DK have teamed up with the Fairtrade Foundation to produce The Fairtrade Baking Book.  

Baking products

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Fairtrade products ideal for baking are coffee, cocoa and chocolate, dried fruits (sultanas, apricots, dates, mango, pineapple and banana), fresh fruits (bananas, pineapple, mango, oranges and lemons), brazil and cashew nuts, peanuts and peanut butter, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, nutmeg, vanilla, sugars, honey, and jams.  Send us your original baking recipe (for a cake, bread, pie, tart, baked pudding, biscuits or savoury dish) using as many Fairtrade products as possible (for more information on Fairtrade products click here). 

How to enter

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The recipe should have a maximum of 15 ingredients, and method should be under 200 words long.

Send your recipe along with your name, address, postcode and daytime telephone number to: Fairtrade Baking Competition,c/o Dawn Henderson, Dorling Kindersley, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL.  Or email your entry to Dawn.Henderson@uk.dk.com

The best recipes, chosen by three judges including a celebrity chef, will be published in The Fairtrade Baking Book by Dorling Kindersley in Spring 2010.

The closing date is the 30th of April 2009.

Prizes

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All winners will get their receipe published in The Fairtrade Baking Book.  In addition all winners will be entered into a prize draw.

Terms and conditions

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1.No purchase necessary to enter the competition.

2. This competition is open to all UK residents aged 13 or over, with the exception of employees of the Promoter, their families, agents and anyone else connected with this promotion.  By entering this competition you will be deemed to have read and understood these terms and conditions and be bound by them.

3. The closing date for receipt of entries is 30th April 2009.

4.The Promoter accepts no responsibility for any entries that are incomplete, illegible or fail to reach the Promoter by the relevant closing date. Proof of posting or sending is not proof of receipt. Entries via agents or third parties are invalid. Entries become the property of the Promoter and are not returned.

5.Only one entry allowed per person. No entrant may win more than one prize.

6.To enter, create an original baking recipe using a maximum of 15 ingredients (of which as many as possible should be Fairtrade ingredients) and containing a method of no longer than 200 words. Your recipe must be your own original work and be clearly written. Fill in your personal details on the entry form and send your recipe and completed form to the Promoter at the address stated on the form. Entries that are illegible or not in accordance with these rules will be disqualified.

7.All correctly completed entries will be forwarded to a judging panel made up of a celebrity chef and a panel of experts. The best recipes will be chosen by the judges on the basis of fulfilling the Fairtrade conditions set out in condition 6 and the taste of the end result.

8.The best recipes selected will be published in The Fairtrade Baking Book, due to be published by Dorling Kindersley in February 2010.  Every entrant whose recipe is published will receive a copy of The Fairtrade Baking Book, and will automatically be entered into a prize draw which will take place in February 2010.  The entrants whose recipes are selected for publication will be notified by email or post by 31st August 2009. 

9.Three winners will be drawn. The first prize winner will receive a red KitchenAid Artisan Mixer, the second prize winner will receive a Fairtrade hamper worth £150, and the third prize winner will receive £100 worth of Dorling Kindersley books of their choice.

10.Prizes are subject to availability. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, the Promoter reserves the right (a) to substitute alternative prizes of equivalent or greater value and (b) in exceptional circumstances to amend or foreclose the promotion without notice. No correspondence will be entered into.

11.Prizes must be taken as offered, cannot be exchanged for a cash equivalent and are not transferable.

12.The winners will be notified by email or post within one month of the date of the prize draw. If a winner's prize is unclaimed after this time, it will lapse and the Promoter reserves the right to offer the unclaimed prize to a substitute winner selected in accordance with these rules.

13.By entering this competition, each entrant hereby confirms and warrants that the recipe is his or her own original work, and has never been published before anywhere else.  If the recipe is published, the entrant further grants a perpetual, exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide licence to Dorling Kindersley to publish his/her recipe in all editions of The Fairtrade Baking Book, and the marketing, sale and distribution thereof, and will enter into any confirmatory documents required by Dorling Kindersley to effect this licence.

14.Entrants will keep Dorling Kindersley Limited harmless from any claims in relation to their recipe that their recipe infringes the personal proprietary right of any other person.

15.To obtain details of the entrants whose recipes have been published in The Fairtrade Baking Book or the winners of the competition, please email dawn.henderson@uk.dk.com stating the name of the competition in the subject heading within two months after the date of the prize draw.

16.The decision of the judges is final and binding for any situation, including any not covered in these terms and conditions, and correspondence will not be entered into. 

17.The Promoter will use any data submitted by entrants only for the purposes of running the competition, unless otherwise stated in the entry details. By entering this competition, all entrants consent to the use of their personal data by the Promoter for the purposes of the administration of this competition and any other purposes to which the entrant has consented.

18.The winners agree to take part in reasonable post-competition publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity. 

19The Promoter is Dorling Kindersley Limited of 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL.