This week has been none stop!! Not all cakey, some family stuff, some experimental stuff!! I will have 2 new cakes to share over the weekend, but thought I’d share the wedding cake samples I made for a lovely couple I met with last weekend!
They are having an Art Deco themed wedding later in the year and wanted to reflect their theme in their cake! 
So far so good!! Another post whoo hoo!!!
You may remember at Christmas I sold some sweeties and gingerbread houses as gifts, and they went down really well. The feed back has been great. One of the lovely ladies who bought LOADS asked if I sold sweets regularly or just for Christmas etc, which got me thinking!! Would people be interested in purchasing home made sweets at other times of the year? Would they be considered a good gift for birthday etc?
So, I’ve been doing my homework! I plan to have some on offer for Valentines day (the Baileys Marshmallows I made yesterday would be perfect!) and maybe progressing it from there! And in the spirit of research I sort of accidentally purchased a book from Amazon with gourmet marshmallow recipes!!! So watch this space, there could be more fluffy, mallowy goodness to come!!!!!
So, despite all my good intentions this poor little blog has been neglected for over a month!!!! So as the title says New Year, New Start!!!!
January always gets people thinking about what the year will bring, and what you want it to bring!! I’m no different!! I’ve been thinking a lot about ways in which I want the business to go, and how to get it there!! I’m pretty clear on the where, but no so much on the how at the moment!! I know the New Year is going to bring lots of exciting challenges, and I’m looking forward to them and to getting to work with some wonderful people!!
I’ve worked on a plan to update this blog at least once a week! It may be more, if I have something I just can’t wait to share, but at a minimum it’ll be once a week!! There, I’ve said it out loud, now I’ve just gotta stick to it!! I’m going to add a button to my newly revamped website, so all the wonderful people that visit there can come on over here and have a nosey at what I’ve been up to!
Ok, so enough rambling, the first order of 2012 went out today!!! A really pretty pink cupcake tower for a Christening!!! The cupcakes were all boxed individually and tied with pink ribbon. I’d forgotten how long that can take to do! Hope you like the pictures!!!
Can you believe there are only 42 sleeps left until Christmas???? How did that happen!!!! I’ve finally got myself in gear and have published Angel Cakes Christmas Goodies and all the details can be found here on our Facebook Page.
If you would like to place an order for any of the items, please drop me a line at beckie@angelcakesessex.co.uk, by the 8th December.
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I’m a ‘blog hopper’ I can spend hours ‘hopping’ from one blog to another!! I constantly find new ones to add to my ever growing list of bookmarks, lifestyle blogs, wedding blogs, cakey blogs, paper craft blogs, and they all have one thing in common PRETTY!!! Between them and my new www.pinterest.com addiction, my inspirational to do list is HUGE!!!
At the top of my list are button bouquets! I love them; I love the vintage feel, and the quirkiness of them. I decided I wanted to try and recreate them in Sugar! So after browsing the web for hours looking at button and broach moulds, I settled on one of each and waited eagerly for them to arrive!!
Just in case you haven’t seen button bouquets before, here are a couple of the ones I’ve found on Pinterest
Ivory Button Bouquet Repinned from Bouquets by Jessica Williams
Claret and Ivory repinned from inspiration and ideas by Natasha Dawson
Aqua and peach repinned from Goin to the Chapel by Victoria Chapman
The blog is looking a bit empty and sad so I thought I’d post some pictures of the wedding fayre we did in September at the Brentwood Centre.
It was the biggest fayre I’d done to date and I had no idea what to expect, were we going to be run off our feet? Would people like my cakes? Would the stand look how I wanted it to? Would we have enough cake samples?
But, I have to say all the stress, sleepless nights, worry and aching fingers were so worth it! We had an absolute ball! We got to meet lots of lovely brides and talk about their ideas for their cakes, some fabulous suppliers, and to put some faces to names!
I think we gave out over 200 cake samples, and even more postcards! (Don’t forget if you took a postcard there is 10% off the price of your cake with the card if you book by the end of Feb 2012!!) We’ve had some email inquiries already and are steadily filling the diary for next year!
It’s so much fun sitting down with a bride and desiging the perfect cake for her (and Hubby to-be’s) special day!!!
I love my job
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After spending FAR too many hours reading everyone else’s adventures in blog land, I’ve finally joined in!!
I hope to share my cakey adventures, my cakey inspiration, and aspirations!! I’ll also be sharing the goings on of my new venture, The Event Angels.
Angel Cakes Essex 