2006 Gipsy Moth cake stall

When I moved to London I got a job at The Gipsy Moth in Greenwich. It has a very big beer garden and my boss let me do a cake stall there as part of Car Free Day. They close off the road into Greenwich and there are lots of events in the village.



I made macaroons for the first time, using lemon pastry and putting jam in the base. I love coconut, but they weren't the most popular thing on the stall.



I also make fruit cake to my Grandmas recipe.



On the stall from left to right.
Back row: vegan carrot cake, date flapjack, lemon cake, brownie and my co league Lex's chocolate orange cake.
Front row: macaroons, coconut loaf, fruit loaf, Victoria sponge cake, chocolate death cake, coffee and walnut cake, chocolate buns, chocolate chip cookies, butterfly buns.

2006 First cake stall

My friend Joanne found a street fair in Shoreditch and thought it would be fun to do cake stall together. We had moved to London a few months before and got very excited and baked A LOT of things. The picture above is my cakes invading my flatmates room and below the kitchen.





I made a sign 'The Taste' taken from Purple Rain. Bad name!



We grossly overestimated the amount we would need and who would go to the market. It turned out that we were in a very underprivileged area and we made everything 30p. We sold everything.

Orange, ginger and treacle sponge

I love this picture - floating sponge!
It was cold, and dark and I fancied a pudding, so a little foolishly i decided to make a sponge at about 8pm. Bearing in mind it takes a good few hours to cook, it was well worth the wait. Sponge pudding is extremely economical with this (one litre, i think) pudding only using one egg and 2oz marg.
I have very fond memories of my mum making sponges. Usually treacle or ginger, so I combined the two with a bit of orange. Yum yum yum.