Press Release
Icing on the cake
09 June 2008
Icing on the cake
09 June 2008
Today, on the 50th birthday of Gatwick’s South Terminal, students from Central Sussex College in Crawley are quite literally providing the icing on the cake!
Rising to the challenge, they have spent the last week baking and icing a special birthday cake that they are delivering personally to the South Terminal as part of today’s celebrations.
Matthew Hart (19) from Horsham, Edward Palmer (21), Warren Leggett (19) and Leena Nayee (21) – all from Crawley, are students on the NVQ level 3 professional cookery course. They have made the fruit cake with marzipan and sugar paste decorations under the watchful eye of their tutor Chef Terry Pugh. It took two hours to prepare, three hours to bake and six hours to decorate.
Terry said: “The College is always delighted to work with local industry, and the commissioning of this celebration cake is no exception. The students involved in this project found it an interesting and creative culinary challenge. We hope that the cake is enjoyed by those celebrating the 50th birthday of Gatwick’s South Terminal.”
Over the past 50 years Gatwick has worked closely with local businesses and the local community. Commissioning the cake from the students at Central Sussex College is a great link back to 9 June 1958.
On that day, after opening South Terminal HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh moved on to Crawley where the Queen opened the new technical college, now Central Sussex College, and planted some trees in Queen’s Square.
