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Our November meeting is where our annual tradition of donating fruit cakes (which is in its 31st year) will take place. Anyone who is donating fruit cakes is asked to bring them along.
For those donating fruit cakes but won’t make the meeting please contact Caroline on 087 2642307 who will arrange for them to be collected.
As well as a display of fruit cakes we will have Christmas themed refreshments on the night and you will have the chance to win a hamper in our annual raffle. Donations this year will be going to the Cork Alzheimers Foundation.
We will also be decorating Christmas themed biscuits and displaying them on a tree.
Any donations for spot prizes on the night will be gratefully received.
If you are donating Christmas cakes this year please note the following:
See you on 24th November.
Our October meeting was a lovely way to spend an evening at this autumnal time of the year with our biggest audience in attendance so far.
We had a Halloween theme (with a hint of Christmas) and the new Committee had gone all out in decorating themselves and the hall.
Our own Chairperson (Cakes by Caroline B) demonstrated how to cover both a square cake and a round cake in sugarpaste with straight neat edges as well as demonstrating how to create a Christmas tree in 3 different ways with or without a mould.
We then elevated them by hand painting to add depth of colour and a 3d appearance as well as adding Christmas baubles. Interestingly we preferred the handmade version with the baubles rather than the mould version.
As always there was a cuppa, refreshments, hints, tips, tricks and plenty of cake chat.
Thank you to all who came for the evening.
Our September meeting was the first meeting to kick off a new year of sugarcrafting (as our year runs from September to September). Once the administration side of our AGM was covered we enjoyed a fab demonstration from Izabella of Funky Cakes Sugarcraft who showed us how to create a 3d pumpkin, taking us through how to create fabulous eyes as well as plenty of tips and tricks.
As usual there was plenty of cake chat, refreshments and an opportunity to meet like minded people of all ages.
We also had a selection of fab Halloween giveaways from Stuff 4 Cakes including blood splat spray, edible slime, edible blood and neon food colouring that went down a treat.
We are looking forward to an exciting new year with plenty of demo’s, and workshops in the planning including a much requested Introduction to Sugarcraft.
Our June meeting was our last club night before the summer and we enjoyed a lovely evening creating marble effect biscuits with royal icing and making the most gorgeous butterflies with a technique that can be used for any image.
Sarah took us through the correct consistencies to use for each, how to make your own piping bag and lots of other tips and tricks along the way and as always there was plenty of tea and chat.
We will definitely come back to royal icing again as there was so much to cover we ran out of time before we could get to using piping nozzles.
Thank you also to Stuff 4 Cakes for sponsoring our club night giveaways.
We will see you back in September. Enjoy the summer.
Our May meeting was a great success with a record turn out of members and guests on such a glorious evening.
Our own President and Chair demonstrated how to make a hot air balloon with sugarpaste and the evening flowed with plenty of cake chat on techniques and tips.
There is always something to learn on these evenings even for the seasoned cake maker.
Thank you to everyone who came along.
Our April Meeting was all about the trend of Lambeth style cakes and we were delighted to have Lisa Hackett from Sugarcoated by Lisa demonstrating for us.
Lisa gave us lots of great hints and tips on consistency of buttercream, how best to add colour, which nozzles to use and how to add a fab finishing touch in an easy, effective way.
It was a lovely evening with great chat, shared hints and tips. A huge thank you to Lisa.
Our March meeting covered all things Communion from fabric effect flowers and freehand crosses, church windows and characters with cutters. We also covered making Communion characters using the ‘appliqué’ technique as well as book spines with wafer paper pages.
A huge thank you to Stuff 4 Cakes and Lilly’s Caketoppers for the Communion themed giveaways.
Thanks to those who came to our February Club meeting, there was a great vibe to the evening and it was lovely to welcome new faces.
Our cake pops came out a treat and many have decided to make their own for upcoming celebrations. We look forward to seeing the pictures.
Thanks also to Stuff 4 Cakes who sent us some fab cake pop related giveaways. Our members and guests were delighted with the goodies. Below is a snapshot of some of the pictures taken on the evening.
Thank you to all who came to our January meeting we had a lovely evening introducing ourselves to the process of making cupcake bouquets with some great results.
Thank you to Jinny’s Cakes Bakes & Decorations who sponsored our giveaway prize on the night which was won by Gwen Treacy.
Below is just a small snapshot of some of the pictures taken during the evening.
