BBC One is following the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as enthusiastic home bakers entered a national competition to find a brand-new recipe to mark the occasion. The one-hour celebratory special – The Jubilee Pudding: 70 Years in the Baking transmits on Thursday, 12th May at 8pm on BBC One, and charts Fortum & Mason’s competition as it celebrates our Monarch’s 70 years on the throne by finding an original and celebratory cake, tart or pudding fit for The Queen.

Following in the footsteps of the Coronation Chicken and the Victoria Sponge, this winning recipe will go down in history and become part of the British food story. Up and down the country on Jubilee weekend the winning recipe will be recreated at street parties, family events, community gatherings and Big Jubilee Lunches as the centrepiece to the nation’s celebrations as the Platinum Pudding