Time is running out to find the UK’s best cupcake (deadline 8 July), so enter our Cupcake Week competition, sponsored by Puratos, now! A panel of independent judges awaits your entries:

l Baking guru Dan Lepard is The Guardian’s bakery writer, blogger and author of several well-respected books on baking. A past British Baker columnist, he has acted as a consultant to many bakeries and works with Bakehouse.

l Mich Turner is founder of London’s multi-award-winning-Little Venice Cake Company and author of three cake books. She has been a consultant to Marks & Spencer and has a line of celebration cakes in Sainsbury’s.

l Fiona Burrell is author of Leith’s Baking Bible from Leith’s School of Food and Wine, and is a regular columnist in British Baker.

All details can be found at www.bakeryinfo.co.uk or send your recipes and images to cupcakes@william-reed.co.uk