A few blog posts ago I wrote about the Christchurch food festival & mentioned the bake weekend. We had a few minutes spare in between our copious amount of trips to the tip, we've been sorting out the garden in our spare time lately, we decided to pop in and see what yummy goodies we could fill our tummies with. I'm really sorry that it's another post to make you all hungry, if you're really keen on being hungry Rosie blogged about the Sunday if you fancy having a little nosey at that too! We headed down mid afternoon, after the judging had happened and I was quite sad to have missed the demonstration from Kirsti at Claridges on how to make perfect macarons. We had a little wonder through the tents and browsed all the stalls, we decided to grab a quick smoothie although Dan didn't quite realised what he'd signed himself in for, having to pedal to blend the smoothie- what an awesome idea I'm thinking they'd be even better for summer cocktail partys! I was pretty impressed by all the entries for the bake competition this year, especially the circus tent, although dare I say I reckon I could definitely give them a run for their money- I might have to enter next year?! The picture of one cupcake was a gorgeous strawberry and champagne cupcake from Fox's cupcake co , I have never ever had a cupcake quite so spectacular- the sponge was lighter than a feather and the buttercream was incredibly light but full of flavour, absolutely heaven (I feel like I'm cheating on lulubelles by saying this).
We then bundled back in the car with bags filled with goodies and headed home for a doggy walk (there were loads of dogs at the bake sale but ours is no where near good enough to resist cakes) and a BBQ, we decided got some lovely butchers sausages and chicken fillets which we marinated in sweet chilli before chucking them over the coals. I also made almost health puddings for everyone, layers of strawberry, banana and sugar free marshmallow, they were so yummy!
What've you been up to lately?
xo