London: Caroline Velik spent more than a decade trying to devise the perfect breakfast – and now has a world title to prove she made it.

Velik, a Melbourne food stylist, has just won the top prize for a specialty dish at the World Porridge Making Championship in Scotland after taking on contestants from 14 countries.

The victory came after she added her mother’s rum banana recipe to a new dish she devised with oatmeal to create what she calls the porridge jaffle.

Velik emerged from the championship, held each year in Carrbridge in the Scottish Highlands, with two honours because her jaffle won the top prize in the specialty category and her traditional porridge won silver.

“I was actually really pleased with that,” she said modestly.

The gold went to technology consultant Sven Seljom

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