13/02/2010 Alternative Press Fair CAKES

I did a food stand at The Alternative Press fair this weekend. It's been a while since I've done a one off event and this one was savoury as well as sweet! Everything I made was vegetarian or vegan. I had the full run of the kitchen at St Aloysius social club near Euston.



The sweet clockwise from top left: Victoria sponge cake, gluten free dark chocolate brownie, vegan apple and mincemeat slices, vegan carrot cake, lemon and almond cake and Welsh cinnamon cake (see below). I made this from a recipe in English Food my Jane Grigson. There are many, many things I want to make from this book as there are so many regional and national deserts that have probably been forgotten by all but a few.



Savoury: Roast butternut squash, chickpea and feta pasties, onion bhaji, raita and mango chutney in a cumin flatbread (all hand made), and (below) vegan roast beetroot and red onion with houmous in a handmade cumin flatbread.

Cake stall signage

27/07/2008 First cake stall at Colombia Road

Eleanor, Claire and I had been offered the opportunity to run this stall by our friend James who works on the coffee stall opposite. We were very excited. Below you can see the urban background to the stall.



In the photo below you can see the inspired 'CAKE STALL' sign.
I think we made about thirty quid each!

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.