Following a recent event that I hosted in Leeds, The Clandestine Cake Club Annual Organiser’s Gathering and meeting the mega passionate Rachel over at Dolly Bakes, I decided to get on board, as I am sure we all did after her fab and informal chat on her passion for these circular & weirdly interesting cakes. After a first and rather successful attempt at my very first Bundt Cake this weekend, thanks to the lovely J
Having just taken a well deserved and much needed holiday, after nearly 3 years without a proper break away previously, I decided now was a good time to take my bike with me and enjoy some slightly more picturesque rides over my latest Cambridge ambles. Having taken the estate car with us, myself and my partner in lycra-clad crime were able to get both bikes safely inside the car for the week and it helped teach me a thing or
After a very busy 12 months or so, with no sign of stopping with Xmas only around 12 weeks away (how did that happen…again?!) I decided it was time for a proper holiday. Not just a break away, which never seems to relax me completely, but a proper holiday, away from work, laptops, television, the normal every day rubbish. I didn’t want to regret having one of those trendy “Staycations” sat on my sofa fe
As some of you know, I am the creator of the Cambridge version of The Clandestine Cake Club, a free national cake swap group, run by a very talented and enthusiastic cakey friend of mine. Last weekend I was thrilled to accept an invitation to the Clandestine Cake Club’s First annual organisers gathering (AOG), hosted in Leeds by Lynn Hill, our fabulous creator of this exciting international cake club as well as the Nati
Following the success of my first cake-based workshop earlier this year, I am thrilled to let you know that I am going to be offering 2 new workshops with The Secluded Tea Party and some very lovely local business women to make these even better than before. Naturally Tea, cake and even cocktails & mocktails are included in these too… even better if you ask me! These 2 events will be ticketed (so book now at just £
This weekend I headed down to the much anticipated Cake & Bake show at Earls Court in London and I was so excited to be rubbing shoulders with Twitter and Blog friends who I haven’t yet met face to face during my last couple of cake-induced years online. I met the team from Great Cake Places, 2 Chicks Egg Whites and the lovely Abigail and her partner from The Cake Nest and I managed to buy myself a gorgeous box of t
Who’d have thought there was a right and wrong way to have Afternoon Tea, that quintessentially English meal? Well, on Saturday 15th September 2012, a sold out table of 20 lovely Secluded Tea Party guests were told what’s what by the UK’s leading etiquette expert, William Hanson. With the third series of period-drama Downton Abbey now back on our screens (and who isn’t engrossed in the wedding plans of Lady Mary & Matthew
If you go down to Ely today… You will be sure of a big surprise… well, I was in shock anyway hehe… If, like me, you like cupcakes and all things good and naughty rolled into one, then you will also be pleased to hear that Ely city centre is finally home to a fabulous new cupcakery to rival the more traditional offerings of Peacocks Tea Room on the riverside : ) Betty Marshmallow opened in February 2012 and i
I am about to say something that I’m very scared of making public, for some unknown reason…. So please be kind to me… I know you will… I have always been a big girl… from school age really to being the chubby Maid of Honour or Bridesmaid (I am ashamed to say I am embarrased when I look back at the last few years especially : ( My weight has always fluctuated, as you can see from the photos IR