As part of our jubilee celebrations each home within the Halcyon group has been challenged to bake a celebration cake. There is a prize for the best design, and we have worked hard to make sure that we are in with a chance.

The cake challenge got us all very excited, there are some quite prolific bakers amongst us here and they jumped at the chance to put their creative heads on come up with a design befitting of such an auspicious occasion.

First, we discussed the cake and decided to bake a vanilla sponge to suit all tastes and to colour it to make a rainbow. We discussed the design at some length and finally agreed to create our version of the St Edward’s Crown.

The St Edward's Crown is the centrepiece of the crown jewels, it is named after Saint Edward the Confessor, and it has been traditionally used to crown English and British monarchs at their coronations since the 13th century. The original crown was a holy relic kept at Westminster Abbey, Edward's burial place, until the regalia was either sold or melted down when Parliament abolished the monarchy in 1649, during the English Civil War.

The present version of St Edward's Crown was made for Charles II in 1661. It is solid gold, 30 centimetres (12 in) tall, weighs 2.23 kilograms (4.9 lb), and is decorated with 444 precious and semi-precious stones.

After 1689, it was not used to crown a monarch for over 200 years, however in 1911, the tradition was revived by George V, and the crown has been used to crown all subsequent monarchs.

When not in use, St Edward's Crown is on public display in the Jewel House at the Tower of London.

Our kitchen team have worked hard to help us turn our cake dreams into reality, sadly our cake does not contain any precious stones, but it is beautiful and will definitely taste better than the original. Our cakes will be posted on our Facebook page to allow people to vote for their favourite. Keep your fingers crossed for us.