A CUDWORTH cake maker scored a maximum break at this year’s World Snooker Championships at the Crucible.

Melanie Leanard was asked by organisers to make a birthday cake to celebrate the 30th year of the competition being held in Sheffield.

With just a week’s notice she came up with a snooker table sponge cake almost three feet long. It took 12 hours to make and comprised three dozen eggs and four and a half pounds of flour, margarine and sugar, a kilo of raspberry jam and two kilos of butter cream.

Melanie, of Melanie’s Cakes, had to use specially coloured icing for the table, balls and pockets and hand made the lettering.

She had to make the cake at her home instead of at her shop because she wouldn’t have been able to get it down the stairs.

Melanie was asked to make the cake by the chef of a hotel next to the Crucible after doing a few wedding cakes for events at the hotel.

She said: “It was awkward because of the size of it to actually get it through a door and into a car. People ask for cakes that big and don’t realise you they are too big for a work top - but I managed, just.

“Because it is in Sheffield you forget it is a world tournament and I was chuffed to bits to be asked. “When I dropped it off Dennis Taylor came over and asked if he could have a piece then but I told him he had to wait.”