Dolgellau Craft Fair Saturday October 22nd 2011

It was really nice to get together with a bunch of girls, hire out a hall and throw a craft market. Pauline came with her cards, Nia and Lesley with their lovely jewellery. Cross stitch from Llinos. Soaps, lotions and essential oils from Kathy and Gemma. Not forgetting Bekki and her stall in aid of the British Heart Foundation. We had a lot of fun and hopefully the people that popped in to see us liked it, too.

Half of our table was our other business 'Siop Gardd' and the other half was 'Patti's Cupcakes' Here are some pictures of the cakes we sold:

And finally, our very popular, extra buttery, Welsh cakes!

Girly Cupcakes

It's kind of scary when you get an order for cupcakes from the wife of the Health Inspector (the man that inspected my kitchen, no less) who also happens to work in Trading Standards and the cakes are going to be eaten in the Trading Standards office because two people have birthdays! No pressure, then!!!

Although we have, as anyone handling food for public consumption does, a rigorous regime in our kitchen as per Health & Safety guidelines it was still scary and I won't feel okay until they give me some feedback -- if they do, that is. We always eat a couple of cakes out of each batch as a sort of quality control (well, that's our excuse, anyway)

The theme was 'girly' cupcakes and these are photos of the cupcakes we made:

Cupcakes at the Farmers Market

It's been awhile since we got the chance to take cupcakes to a farmers market as pretty much all markets already have someone doing cake and we can never get a look in. But patience won out at the farmers market we started attending three months ago (we had been selling things from our other business - Siop Gardd.) Noticing that the other cake stalls were not exactly regular in attending, we took the plunge and asked if we might bring cupcakes to the next one. Luckily the organizer said yes and Stefan I made up a couple of boxes to see how they would go.

We debated over which nozzle to use for decorating. I favoured the 3M but Stefan finds the 1A easier to use and I must say on DC Cupcakes (our favourite cupcake show) they tend to use this one. However, they use a cream cheese icing which gives a lovely effect to the cake and with buttercream icing we find it doesn't look as effective.

Nevertheless, the cupcakes turned out lovely and sold really well, too. They looked fab and tasted great, and as I keep telling everyone, Welsh butter definitely makes the best cakes!!! Here are a few photos of our cakes boxed up and ready to go.

We made vanilla and strawberry cupcakes. Some of the vanilla cupcakes were decorated with coconut and cherries, others with edible flowers. The strawberry cupcakes were dusted with edible glitter and topped with an edible fondant strawberry.

The chocolate cupcakes were made using Cadbury's Bournville cocoa. It makes a delicious, rich icing, too.