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Thursday, December 29, 2011

New Year - New Skills to learn!

New Year - New skills.
We have lots going on in the New Year to take your cupcake decorating skills to the next level, and don't forget if you have been on 4 workshops the 5th one is FREE

Cupcakes the complete story - Wednesday 4th January, Wednesday 1st February
Bake180 kitchen opens up to 2 (max) people for a baking, decorating, sugarcraft making experience, with lunch and cakes included, 10am - 3pm. If you want to know how to make, you will receive the Bake180 recipes to use for both the cupcakes and icing, not to mention how you get your cupcakes with flat tops and all the same size why not book on this workshop! £100 pp You will make 12 cupcakes, ice and decorate them and pick up tricks and tips to try at home.

Beginners cupcake decorating workshop
This is an oppertunityto work with moulds, cutters and plungers to make sugarcraft items to decorate your 12 (pre baked) cupcakes, you will learn how to ice perfect swirls and add your decorations to take home your 12 lovely cupcakes.
Tuesday 10th January 6-8.30pm £40pp, Tuesday 7th February 6-8.30pm, Tuesday 28th February 6-8.30pm

Jungle Animals
Modelling made easy! Why mot come and spend a few hours learning the art and skills of modelling, we will model animals which you can then take home and add to your own cake.Suitable for beginners and those with some experience.
Tuesday 17th January 6-8pm £45pp

Vintage Workshop
Create pretty Vintagestyle cupcakes using a variety of tools and equipment. Make handmade bows, pearls, cameo's, roses and buttons. With tea and cakes served in our vintage crockery. Max group size 8.
Saturday 21st January 10-12.30pm £45pp

Stencilling and Embossing Workshop
The stencilling and embossing workshop is for those that have already attended a cupcake decorating workshop. Make your cupcakes look even more proffessional looking with a number of skills and techniques. You will receive 12 cucpakes to decorate with a number of stencils and embossing materials. There will also be oppertunity to purchase some of these items to practice at home, 2.5hr, £40 pp
Tuesday 24th January 6pm-8.30pm

Chocolate Workshop

A workshop where we use modelling chocolate, decorate chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream, you will also lear how to make beautiful roses 2.5hr, £45 pp
Sunday 29th January 10am-12.30pm

Start your own Cupcake Business
Do you love baking cupcakes so much you wish you could start your own business?
Maybe you don’t know where to start, or you have started but need to develop it further?
Agenda;
• The Recipe: where to start, what to do before you start selling.
• The shopping list: What products do you want to sell / market sector you want to sell to / costing your business correctly.
• Compliance: the important stuff to make sure you are running legally and professionally.
• Self Raising: growing your business, how to be found.
• Promotion: how to promote, the tools you have (includes social media).
• How to retain customers.
• Sinking cupcakes: the pit falls of running your own business.
• Bake180’s learning curve, saving you from making the same mistakes we did.
This course is suitable for anyone who is thinking of starting a business, in the early stages of setting up a business or needing to progress a business further. It’s an open discussion and a really good way to meet like minded people and learn from someone who has gone through the same journey.
10-2pm includes refreshments, lunch and of course cakes!

£80 pp Saturday 4th February 10am-2pm

Valentines Workshop - Sunday 12th February
Rather than giving your loved one a boring box of chocolates how about presenting them with a beautiful box of cupcakes decorated by you? or praps come to the workshop together? Each person will get a box of 6 cupcakes to decorate with hearts, flowers and all things romantic! £30pp or £50 per couple.


Mothers Day workshop - Sunday 18th March

If you would like to give your mom / mum a special gift this Mother's Day why not come to our workshop. You will receive 6 cupcakes ready for you to decorate with pretty handmade flowers you make, bows, hearts etc.You could treat your mom to a morning cupcake decorating together? £25 pp or £45 for two


Baby Themed Cupcake Decorating
This is a workshop especially for anyone wanting, expecting or organising a baby shower! Each person gets a box of 6 cupcakes and we decorate them in all things baby! We will use moulds and cutters to make:
Baby bibs, baby grows, baby blankets, hands, feet, abc, toys etc. £25 per person £45 per couple.

http://www.bake180.co.uk/adult_workshops.asp - click for payment links

You can also buy vouchers for the above, what a great gift.
Hope to see you at a workshop soon!
— Sarah, Bake180

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Workplace winday!

Workplace Winday! 
I have just baked 24 mini christmas themed cupcakes for one lucky winner!!!!
If you live or work in Tamwoth, why not play along to try and win them!
  1. Like our facebook page link below
  2. Then write on the wall where you work (doesnt matter if your workplace isnt Tamworth if you live here its fine)
 Make sure you get your workmates to play along too! Winner picked later today.
https://www.facebook.com/cookies.cupcakes
 

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Straight Talking

Its not wasy to cut a cake perfectly level with a normal knife.

However we can cheaply address this with a cake leveller

I found mine on ebay for approx £10, it's adjustable to give different heights

A good tool i think!


Monday, November 28, 2011

Buttercream

Buttercream is called buttercream as it contains butter.
Dont ever use soft margerine as a subsitute.

It's too soft for piping and doesnt look or taste as good.


Years ago this was my attempt using margering, eeek

Friday, November 25, 2011

Quick cake decorating tip

A quick way to decorate a sponge cake in a hurry is to;

place a doyley over the top of the cake and sprinkle icing sugar over the top.

Remove the doyley and you have a lovely pattern on the cake!


Thursday, November 24, 2011

Coloured Icing tip

When mixing coloured icing, make sure you make more than is needed, as it may be difficult to achieve exactly the same colour again.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Cigerello Cake

Making a ciggerello cake
Ingredients for cake
250g margerine (at room temp)
250g of caster sugar
4 free range large eggs
2 tbsp milk
245g self raising flour
65g cocoa powder
1 tsp baking powder

Ingredients for decoration
250g unsalted butter (at room temperature)
440g icing sugar
2 tsp vanilla extract
60g cocoa powder
1 x box of cigerellos
1 x bag of chocolate curls

Equipment
8" round cake tin
Turntable
Palette knife


Method:
Cream your butter and caster sugar together until light and fluffy
Beat eggs, vanilla and milk together, put to one side.
Mix together the flour, cocoa, and baking powder in a seperate bowl.
Alternate adding the wet and dry to the butter / sugar mixture.

Spoon into your tin (ensure greesed and lined) bake at 160 for approx 1 hour


Shop around for your cigarello's they can really vary in price. I bought these from The Chocolate Trading company. http://www.chocolatetradingco.com/





Once your cake is baked and cooled, make your buttercream in the usual way. Cut the cake in half and sandwich back together with a layer of buttercream. Smooth bittercream around the outside of the cake and the top, refridgerate for 15 mins before repeating the process, then once you have added your second layer of buttercream start placing your ciggarellos to the outside of the cake. Once all round the edgesprinkle all your chocolate curls on the top.

Finished with a bow!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

New workshops added to our schedule


Stencilling / Embossing workshop

In the New Year we are offering lots of new workshops this is one of them.

The stencilling / embossing workshop is aimed at those that have already attended cupcake decorating workshops, and are now looking to take their skills to the next level.

Make your cupcakes even more eye catching and proffessional looking with a number of skills / techniques.

You will have 12 freshly baked cupcakes to decorate using a variety of stencils and embossing materials.

You will also be able to purchase many of the tools we use during the workshop.

2.5 hour workshop £40 per person.
payments can be made on the website http://www.bake180.co.uk/adult_workshops.asp or email me for payment link hello@bake180.co.uk

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Bake180 £1 Raffle....

Fancy getting your hands on a £40 Bake180 gift voucher?

Redeemable against anything we do, workshops, products, cakes, equipment, printing, cupcake jars etc

We are running this raffle from today until 5th November 2011

To partake you pay £1 per entry, click link below
http://mall.payvment.com/h/5Ke4

On the 5th November all names will be entered into random.org where a person will be picked at random to win a £40 Bake180 voucher which is valid for 12 months so it would make a great Christmas pressie (no one will know what you paid for it)

Good Luck all

Sunday, October 16, 2011

How to make a cupcake bouquet........

Want to make a pretty cupcake bouquet for someone?
What you will need:
A container; watering can, flower pot, vase etc.
Oasis *
Inserts: flowers, butterflies etc *
Tissue
Ribbon
6 cupcakes
1/2 pack of bouquet spikes*


To assemble:


Take the container and fill with Oasis (you may need to shape this)
Place a sheet of coloured tissue in (you may only need half a sheet)
Arrange inserts
Place cakes in the spike holders see how they look
(you may need to do this a couple of times to ensure they are stable, well positioned etc)
Twist tissue inbetween spikes for more stability, add inserts of your choice.

As you can see from the first picture on this blog I added a row of pearls to the container and a butterfly, you can me as creative as you like!!

All items marked with a * can be bought from Bake180

See pictures of our bouquet workshop here

Monday, October 10, 2011

Cupcake in a jar winners...

I have used list www.random.org to pick 6 people at random to win a cupcake in a jar and the first 6 people it picked are;

  1. Chloe Saunders
  2. Rebecca Ryan
  3. Anna Moore
  4. Marg Byatt
  5. lucy Stokes
  6. Katie Sullivan
Email or text me your address please hello@bake180.co.uk 07599403600

Thanks to everyone who played

Want to win a cupcake in a jar?????


To win a cupcake in a jar I need you to be a fan on facebook;

then write on your wall

"I want to win a cupcake in a jar from (tag my facebook page)" 

I will pick 6 people to win cupcakes in jar posted all over the uk!!

Winners will be picked at 9pm tonight xx

Cupcake in a jar.......

Ok so the new craze is here! Cupcakes in a jar, a great little treat for yourself or a gift for someone else to make their day!

These keep fresh for 5 days at room temp or last 4 weeks in the fridge (must bring to room temp before eating) can also be frozen to keep for longer (again needs to be room temp before eating)

We do a couple of sizes at the moment the large is £6 plus £2.50 postage, the small is £3, pluse £1.50 postage.


Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Better cake decorating tip..........

To make tiny chocolate swirls the easy way....

use a potato peeler

to shave curls off the side of a block of chocolate 


Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Want to start your own cupcake business?

Do you love baking cupcakes so much you wish you could start your own business?
Maybe you don’t know where to start, or you have started but need to develop it further?
Agenda;
• The Recipe: where to start, what to do before you start selling.
• The shopping list: What products do you want to sell / market sector you want to sell to / costing your business correctly.
...
• Compliance: the important stuff to make sure you are running legally and professionally.
• Self Raising: growing your business, how to be found.
• Promotion: how to promote, the tools you have (includes social media).
• How to retain customers.
• Sinking cupcakes: the pit falls of running your own business.
• Bake180’s learning curve, saving you from making the same mistakes we did.


This course is suitable for anyone who is thinking of starting a business, in the early stages of setting up a business or needing to progress a business further. It’s an open discussion and a really good way to meet like minded people and learn from someone who has gone through the same journey.
10-2pm includes refreshments, lunch and of course cakes!

 £80 per person, you can pay through the website or email me hello@bake180.co.uk



Better cake decorating tip

To colour white chocolate use powdered / paste food colouring.

Liquid colouring will cause the chocolate to thicken and become unstable.

Monday, October 3, 2011

Want your own cupcake business?

Do you love baking cupcakes so much you wish you could start your own business?

Maybe you don’t know where to start, or you have started but need to develop it further? If so you may want to come on this workshop!
Agenda;
• The Recipe: where to start, what to do before you start selling.
• The shopping list: What products do you want to sell / market sector you want to sell to / costing your business correctly.
• Compliance: the important stuff to make sure you are running legally and professionally.
• Self Raising: growing your business, how to be found.
• Promotion: how to promote, the tools you have (includes social media).
• How to retain customers.
• Sinking cupcakes: the pit falls of running your own business.
• Bake180’s learning curve, saving you from making the same mistakes we did.

This course is suitable for anyone who is thinking of starting a business, in the early stages of setting up a business or needing to progress a business further. It’s an open discussion and a really good way to meet like minded people and learn from someone who has gone through the same journey.

10-2pm includes refreshments, lunch and of course cakes!
£80 per person (you can pay securely on the website www.bake180.co.uk)

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Do you bake? Fancy winning some cupcake toppers?

If you would like to win these cupcake toppers all you have to do is;

1. Go to my website www.bake180.co.uk and tell me how much I sell 6 hole cupcake boxes for, and
2. comment below why you desrve to win them :-)

It is a sheet of 12 edible printed, thin icing discs perfect for creating pretty floral cupcakes.

Good Luck!!!




Monday, August 8, 2011

Win cookies for your workplace!

We love our little competitions and you do too so why not try and win your workplace some Bake180 cookies??
They can be posted all over the UK :-)

All you have to do is
1. Write on Bake180's wall the name of your company
2. Get all your workmates to do the same (send them a link to this blog)

Wednesday AM I will pick a company at random and announce the company on my wall, send the cookies out to said company!!

Fingers crossed x

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Competition time!

I think its about time we had a little competition.......

If you are on facebook copy and paste this into your status;

"please go to www.facebook.com/cookies.cupcakes and 1.'like' their page, then 2. post my name on their wall :-) I need cupcakes, I may even share!!!!!"

If you are on Twitter please follow me Bake180 and retweet "@bake180 I would love to win cupcakes, I copied this tweet off ....fill in who u got this tweet from...now please RT"

Everyone can then do the same on their wall, the person who gets the most mentions by 6pm tomorrow (Sunday 29th)  will get a free box of cupcakes delivered (if 15m of B79) if you are further away we can post you some cupcakes (this may take a couple of weeks as we are awaiting postal boxes

Friday, May 27, 2011

Father's Day 19th June

Dont forget to order something special for your Dad this Father's Day!
Whatever his Team or Hobby we can create something very special for him!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Cupcake Kits for home baking

We have some really cute cupcake kits that contain cases as well as inserts in a variety of themes
All £4 each plus 50p postage!

More edible imaging available; Hello kitty & Easter themed




Lots of lovely edible printing available to dress your cupcakes! £4 per sheet!!

More cupcakes bouquet spikes available

We now have back in stock our cupcake bouquet spikes!!!
If you want to make an impressive cupcake bouquet these are great for holding your little cuppies in place!
£6 for 12, collection or £1.50 postage 2nd class (normally £2 postage if you buy on ebay)

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Edible printing

We can now print your pictures on edible icing discs (not rice paper) much more professional looking. Maybe you want to do your own baking and just need proffessional looking toppers? or if you would like to leave it up to us we can create anything image wise and make it edible!!!

Like these our Vintage pin up girls!  

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Vintage Cupcake Decorating Workshop

Come along to our Vintage Cupcake Decorating workshop where you will receive 12 cupcakes to decorate with handmade items such as:
fondant pearls, pretty bows, vintage style buttons, cameo's and beautiful roses.
You will learn how to pipe icing, and cover with fondant caps creating fabulous, proffesional looking cupcakes to take home and impress loved ones with

Workshop is 2hrs and is £40 pp. You can book securley on our website www.bake180.co.uk

Blogging Drought!

To all the nice people who follow my blog I must appologise for not posting anything for ages!!!!

Its been a busy few weeks;
We have been adding to our vintage crockery so we can do tea parties.
Thinking of lovely gifts for moms (Mothersday just arounf the corner)
Adding lots of workshops such as baking and decorating, wedding DIY cupcakes and Vintage decorating cupcake classes!

So we are back and will be blogging more, here is my Mothers Day spotty bouquet :-) £12


Monday, February 7, 2011

Wedding Cupcakes Wrappers and Picks

We have just introduced a lovely range of wedding cupcake wrappers and picks they look beautiful on the stand!