Brilliant Bake Offs

As you know, at The Cakehouse we LOVE cake! So imagine our delight when we were asked to judge not one, but two bake offs!

Fired up with thoughts of moist cakes filled and topped with juicy jams and sweet icing, we headed to the Coffi House on Wellfield Road for the Roath Bake Off. The event was organised by local socialite Wayne Courtney, and what a feast he arranged!

The selection was varied and the standard high - how do you decide between spinach and goats cheese muffins, fruit tarts, pies, red velvet cakes and classic victoria sponge?!

Well, after tasting and deliberating (and tasting some more!) we gave each of the entries a mark for taste, presentation and originality, then finally we found a winner.
　
Kate Lloyd-Hughes's Earl Grey Chocolate Fudge Cake was creative and delicious, with an unusual combination of flavours that complimented each other beautifully in a light and moist sponge. There were also prizes for Lisa Watts with her Sticky Toffee Walnut Tart and Stefanie Lehman who baked a Pineapple Praline Creme Torte as well as a special award for 6 year old Silas - his chocolate covered Weird Cake which was green inside!

And thanks to all the bakers involved the bar has now been set for 1st April.

That's when we'll be judging the Spring Cake Off, and we hope you'll be involved too. All you need to do is pick up an entry form at The Milkwood Gallery or the Coffi House, and decide what to bake. Then at 2pm on 1st April bring your cake creation to The Milkwood Gallery.

We can't guarentee you'll win, but we can guarentee it will be a great afternoon - it may even be the tastiest event you'll visit this Spring!


Thank you to www.roathcardiff.net and @craftycakes on Twitter for providing us with pictures of the Roath Bake Off

That February Feeling...

It has been a funny few months for The Cakehouse.

Throughout November we had a weekly stall, online orders and then we put an offer on a shop at the end of the month.

Sadly, that was rejected in early December and the rest of the month went by in a blur (don't worry; we still had time to bake! Think rich fruit cakes with royal icing, moist chocolate gateaux with white chocolate snow flakes and golden brown waffles drizzled with syrup).

Then we had the January blues - too tired to write beautiful blogs, too sleepy to shop hunt. Thank goodness for apple and cinnamon loaves and slices of banana and chocolate cake to keep us going.

But now it's February and we've got that Friday feeling most days of the week! People have been contacting us to buy our cakes online, an invitation to a blog party resulted in complimentary comments from people in the know, and we've been asked to judge the Roath Bake Off.

So, it's a busy time, but an exciting one. And with March just around the corner, we'll certainly be springing into next month.