Arabic version: كاكمانتل يضع حكايات فريمانتل على مائدة الحلوى

According to ABC News, Cakemantle invited people to explore and taste Fremantle through sponge cake, jelly and icing during Fremantle Design Week. Designers Loren Holmes and Rosie Halsmith created the event, asking bakers to make edible works and explain why they chose their subject.

Sixteen entrants, including professional designers and local residents, produced cakes inspired by the port city. Their creations included interpretations of Monument Hill, the Wallenius Wilhelmsen car carrier ship and the old Roundhouse prison. Other entries considered Fremantle across time, including the rocky bar removed at the river mouth to create the harbour and a future city shaped by changing sea levels.

A family entry referred to the former morgue at Bathers Beach, using two small white figures on a slab beneath a pitched canopy. Another cake recreated terrazzo tiles made at a Fremantle factory by Italian immigrants Giuseppe and Anna Scolaro, using cheesecake, jelly, cake and local bush ingredients.

Executive chef Blaze Young, landscape architect Scott Lang and UWA dean of design Sarah McGann judged the entries on taste, idea and execution. Third place went to Fremantle Doctor, a human-form rendering of the afternoon sea breeze. The Scolaro Terrazzo tiles creation was second.

Erin Coates won with a reimagining of the former limestone rock bar at the mouth of the Derbarl Yerrigan/Swan River. Judges praised its taste, with Mr Young saying the flavour pushed it “over the edge”. Ms Holmes said the quick sale of baking and tasting tickets gave organisers hope that Cakemantle could return to the Fremantle Design Week calendar next year.