Star Bakery on the road!

We've been a bit busy recently so haven't been able to attend many events and although we'd normally try and attend a few Christmas fairs the truth is we're so busy with others orders we just can't get out and about as much as we used to!

I thought I'd let you all know about a few of our events this month where you can come along and buy CAKE nom nom nom:

Hucknall Wedding Fayre - if you're getting married or know someone who has yet to book their wedding cupcakes then tell them to come along and say hello when we attend the Hucknall Wedding Fayre this weekend. All of the details are on our Facebook page and don't forget, we'll have some tasting samples on hand....

The Elms Michealmas market - this is our first time attending what seems like a really fantastic family day out at The Elms school Christmas market. We'll have lots of Christmas themed goodies to sell on the day as well as being able to take bookings for Christmas orders.

Ladies in the Living Room - another first for us and for the Living Room in Nottingham. A fun filled night of Christmas themed shopping where the goodie bag you receive will be worth more than the ticket price! Tickets are selling fast and we'll have a large booth filled with cake displays as well as our new mini cupcakes for you to buy on the night.

We hope to see you at one of our events and its worth mentioning that we're getting pretty booked up for December so please let me know if you need anything - I'd hate to turn away any last minute orders :)

I shall call him.....Mini Me.

We've had these little fellas on our menu for a while now but in case you hadn't seen them yet I'd like to introduce you to our 'cupcake minis' a two bite version of our standard size cuppies.

Our minis cost £1 and are available to our in multiples of 24 (it may sound like a lot but I dare you not to eat less than 3 in one go!).

Cake Britain - yummy cake locally!

View Cake Britain in a larger map

I get a lot of email enquiries asking if I can send my cakes through the post, the simple answer being no. I suppose I could but can you imagine the mess they'd be in when they reached their destination? Yummy as it might be.

Baking, babies and beyond

Hello everybody! Long time no post, but now we're back with a vengeance after what seems like an eternity of baking and babies :)

So if you hadn't already gathered I've gone from mum-of-one to mum-of-two, here's a little peek of Milo who was born on 21st July.

More baking fun at home!

I love cake. That's a given.

But I love cake MORE when it's fun and you can't get more fun than funfetti cake! Whilst you can't buy funfetti cake in the UK (boo) I'm sure a lot of people have dabbled with colours/sprinkles in cake so I thought you'd like to see my efforts after a fun filled baking session with my son.

We decided to make a simple one layer cake as we just wanted to feed the family. I came across this blog a little while back and decided to give the listed 'White Cake' recipe a go. When you see a US recipe that calls for 'shortening' then you can use Trex which is available in most UK supermarkets now but if you don't have any to hand then just substitute for butter.

The recipe is really straight forward and produces a nice moist white cake. My advice would be to make sure you have some strong coloured sprinkles to add to your cake as the classic hundreds and thousands or pastel sprinkles will just get lost in your cake. I happened to have some really bright sugar strands to hand and they produced a really nice effect in the cake and completely melt away so no crunchy pieces in your cake!
I topped this cake with a really basic chocolate buttercream and my son generously sprinkled on the decorations! I hope you like our efforts.

Baking fun in the school holidays

Here at Star Bakery we love to find an excuse to bake - and the school holidays is the perfect one. I love baking with my son for two reasons:

1. He loves to make (and consume) anything we make together and especially likes an excuse to get messy in the kitchen!
2. It's a cheap way to pass the time and have some proper one-on-one fun with my boy :)

Quick update and hello!

As mentioned in my previous blog post we are no longer able to fit in any orders until after 1st October 2010 but I thought you still might like to see what we've been up to behind the scenes as cake is never far from our minds...

You can see all our latest work here and find out all our latest news by becoming a fan of ours on Facebook.

Normal blog posts will resume again in September so in the meantime please don't hesitate to drop me line at liana@starbakery.co.uk or leave a comment on this blog and I can get back to you.

Hope you're all having a great summer so far and I leave you with some images from a few weddings I have baked for recently - hope you like them!

These are a few of my favourite things

Hello my lovely blog readers! Thank you so much for bearing with me over the last few weeks of 'no posts', although I am still pretty swamped with all things cake related I thought it might be nice if I post a few pics from recent cakes that I thought you might like. They may not be accompanied by much chat from me, but hey who doesn't like to ogle cake??

UPDATE: The posts on this blog might slow up a little while we enter our busy season but don't forget we are no longer taking on orders between 1st July and 30th September. All existing bookings are of course being fulfilled but do get in touch if you have any cake queries outside of these dates. We'll do our best to get back to you but our current email waiting time is 5 workings days so bare that in mind!