Sunday 7 April 2013

The Cake and Bake Show

We attended The Cake and Bake Show on Friday, which took place at Manchester Central. Famous bakers such as Mich Turner, Paul Hollywood and Eric Lanlard were all there along with many of the Great British Bake Off contestants. It was like walking in to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, we now know just how Charlie felt as it was like a cake filled dream world.

Disney Villain Cake

We picked up lots of hints and tips and saw some amazing cake creations that we hope to recreate at Kiss Me Cake Bakery. One of our favourite cakes of the day was Mich Turner's demonstration of her raspberry and rose cake, a beautiful vanilla sponge cake iced with raspberry and rose flavoured buttercream roses. Unfortunately we didn't manage to get a taste so that's definitely one we will be trying to recreate soon. 
At the end of the day we were able to put our cake decorating skills to the test by decorating gingerbread hearts in the Gingerbread garden and then we sampled some delicious chocolate brownies. Fantastic!

 




We've taken lots of inspiring ideas away with us to make Kiss Me Cake even better and hopefully next year we will be able to display our own cakes at such a fantastic event...maybe we will see you there?
 

A rather orange Paul Hollywood!