People queues out the doors of a room at the Budock Vean Hotel last week as they tried to get a taste of the cakes baked for Mawnan Save The Children's busiest coffee morning ever.

Cakes were delivered by land and sea as more than 200 people turned up for a slice of the delicious creations, which were the stars of the charity shop's first ever charity bake-off.

Bakers from local businesses worked hard to deliver cakes from Trebah Garden Café, Glendurgan Tea Room, Fat Apples Café of Porthallow, Cornish Maid Café, the Waymarker, the Meudon Hotel, Trengilly Wartha and the Budock Vean itself, helping to raise almost £1,200 for the children’s charity.

Twenty-two year old Hector Jourdan from Fat Apples’ Café brought his coffee and walnut cake by boat from Porthallow to the quay at the bottom of the Budock Vean’s garden, and won a joint-second prize with the Trengilly Wartha’s blue-tiered toy-box creation.

But sixteen year old Hannah Barlow took the top prize with a chocolate and Oreo cake, which won over judges Paula and Adrian Roberts.

Dr Paula Roberts, of Mawnan, Constantine and Treverva Save the Children, said: "Due to the kindness of the management at the Budock Vean Hotel we have been able to have a spring coffee morning her for many years, but this year it's been more successful than ever."

She added: "It was perfect, absolutely superb, the best we've ever done. All the stall holders are telling me they have doubled what they usually take."

She thanked the supporters of Save the Children, and the Budock Vean, as well as the hotel's marketing manager Nicky Miller. whose idea the bake off originally was.