Saturday afternoon, getting sorted: cake boxes, muffin cases, mm-mm.
Baking and icing, mm-hhmm.
Cupcakes finished and starting to fill the cake box... (Little silver sugarballs on top.)
I'm not sure if I took a picture of our kitchen table before we left, but it was piled high with white cake boxes full of baked goodies. Many lovely people dropped off a cake, or three -- and the assortment was beautiful, and turned out to be delicious.
At the party, a very serious 10-year-old wanted to discuss the various merits of the cakes with me. The Chocolate Truffle cake was pronounced 'Very dark. But nice.' - and the Orange Cardamom Sour Cream Cake was 'Really, really good.' That's one sophisticated ten-year-old cake taster, not mincing her words.
We had dark cakes, light cakes, coconut cakes and pink-iced cakes. We had three tiers of cupcakes on a gorgeous stand. There was a strawberry-adorned chocolate beauty. Glossy icing on a tall dark number. A double-decker chocolate cake, with butter cream icing and german cherry jam in the middle. A clown cake. Ring cakes. They all made new friends. Large white boxes were last seen being borne away by happy Kinglake residents full of assorted pieces of cake (the residents - and the boxes, that is!)
Hurrah to the cake bakers, one and all of you!
4 comments:
Congratulations on a successful launch! I can vouch for the lemonade scones in the book being delicious.
I'm so glad it all went so well. I saw a pic of the choccy cakes over at Princess and the Monkey - yummo!
I received an enquiry from someone wanting to buy a chefs hat today too, so thankyou very much!
and hoorah for you, for being such a wonderful community-minded, generous being while you've been having your own hard times. If I lived near by, I'd be baking you my grandma's sponge cake, with jam and cream filling and icing sugar on the top. But I guess I could just sent your long past giveaway!!
Oooh yummy, those cakes look sensational! Congratulations on a great project and a great event!
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