Is yours good enough for the mayoral menu?

Contestants in the Nosh pavlova competition this Friday will have to whip up a well-dressed dessert to impress self-confessed foodie Mayor Hardaker.

Mayor Hardaker is judging the inaugural competition alongside Vanilla café owner and food writer Sarah Turpitt and Nosh store manager David Donoghue.

The competition is an opportunity for Hamiltonians to show off their baking skills in a fun event in the lead up to Christmas.

People can enter their pav in one of three categories:

• Overall
• Best dressed
• Children - up to the age of 15 years.

There is also a special People’s Choice award – from 5.30 to 6.30pm shoppers at Nosh can taste and rate the pavs for themselves with the favoured one receiving a $200 Nosh hamper.

The winner of the Overall and Best Dressed categories each receives one $300 Nosh Dosh Voucher.

The runner up in each category receives a $100 Nosh hamper.

The winner of the kids’ category receives $100 Nosh Dosh, $100 Nosh Hamper and cookbooks for kids. The runner up in the category gets a $100 Nosh Christmas Hamper.

To register email your full name, address and telephone number to pavlova@noshfoodmarket.com by Wednesday 14 December 2011.