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Baking and Street Market Inspiration in Taupo, New Zealand

November 29, 2011 By 4 Comments

On a recent trip to my parents home in Taupo, New Zealand, my mother took me to the most wonderful market. The Taupo Riverside Market is a weekly market held every Saturday morning. With a focus on bread, arts and crafts, free-range eggs, baking, second hand goods, Murray’s second hand books, clothing, carvings, Hugh’s hand made furniture, honey, flowers, coffee beans, photographs, natural beauty products… and so much more! A… Continue reading

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Matriarch & vegetable inspires winning cake recipe

May 20, 2011 By 1 Comment

We are thrilled to bring you the second of our winners in our ‘Creative Writing Competition’.  We loved this entry by Cecille Sia in the ‘Best Cake Recipe’ category.  Cecille is one of our international cake friends and customer! She is from Manila in the Philippines, she grew up here and says that her Grandparents were hugely influential in her life.  To us this story encapsulates what baking

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Folk Artist Julie Arkell inspires winning cake!

May 5, 2011 By 3 Comments

We are delighted to share with you the overall winning entry from our ‘Creative Writing Competition’. Lindy was very impressed with the presentation of Rhu Srand’s entry, the detail in the story, and how Rhu was inspired to create this beautiful, and different, cake.   We admired Rhu’s attention to detail eg: the stitching , the research that went into the design, the ‘tweeking’ of the cake recipe… Continue reading

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Write & Win: Winners Announced

April 7, 2011 By 3 Comments

We are delighted to announce the winners of our Write & Win: Creative Writing Competition…

 

Overall Winner:

Rhu Strand

Best Cake Recipe Category:

Winner: Cecille Sia

Runner-Up: Tracey

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Autumn leaf mini cake class

November 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment

We are now well and truly into winter, but during the last few sunny days of autumn we ran a very successful autumn leaf inspired mini cake class and I just wanted to share with you some of the work that the students created.

Students covering and decorating their cakes on our Autumn inspired mini cake class

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