mountains of cake

We had a wonderful last event this afternoon - a room full of lovely ladies eating all of the cake and crust-less sandwiches, drinking tea and pink fizz. Thank you everyone who came and donated towards our now incredible 81% of the total! Can't believe we have got here already, and it feels amazing!

The gorgeous ladies from The Body Shop came to make us over (picture of me and hot honey Emilie - wow - new purple eyes look is, um, startling??!) and give relaxing hand massages: thank you so much!

The mountain of cakes from Blueberry Hill was staggering and delicious! Thank you Ella and Rachel for making our do so special! Home made jam for the wonderful scones; heart-shaped vicoria sponges; melting double-choc brownies to name but a few treats. Want to plug them again: http://blueberryhillcakes.co.uk/

Thank you also to Paul the bakery in Clapham Junction for the lovely fruit tarts. Yum. Also, of course the most fab chocs ever made - L'Artisan Du Chocolat provided that last wafer thin mint. But not in a gross exploding way. And thanks to hosts Charlie and Mary who were brilliant yet again.

Apologies for the terrible photography, but you get the idea!

cake, cake and cake

Just can't wait for the ladies afternoon tea on Sunday this week - those gorgeous ladies from the Body Shop will are coming to give us hand massages and makeup lessons which I cannot wait for! Thank you Body Shop!

The wonderful Ella and Rachel from Blueberry Hill (http://blueberryhillcakes.co.uk/) are sending us sumputous treats. When Rosie, Jo and I saw them in the summer at the Battersea foodies festival, they blew us away with their delicious stall, and taught us how to make hazlenut meringue treats and coffee martinis - yum! Thank you Blueberry Hill Cakes!

We are also hoping that Paul, the lovely french bakery, will be giving us some pastries too - yes please Paul!

We will be bringing some ladylike crust-less sandwiches and suchlike, and everyone will get a goodie bag! Fantastic!

We are hoping to have our recipe book printed and ready to go by the weekend too - fingers crossed!!

Chloe

cake!

there is a good reason we called this blog mountains, molehills and cake - CAKE!!

thanks to all at the Albert Embankment office for making, selling, buying and eating cake like there's no tomorrow this morning - we raised a fantastic, and unexpected £107!

it has taken our total above three quarters of the way to the mashoosive target, and I am so grateful to burst through that barrier. Its real progress, and it feels like we are on the final stretch now.

proof of cake:

I regrettably didn't get any shots of Jo's hundred of gorgeously iced cupcakes, Aunty Sylv's delicious lemon drizzle or country loaf, Dee's pals incredible choc creation covered in roses and gold, Janine's extremely tasty (I would know - i ate two) gingerbread and white choc shapes, Robbie's irresitable (Susanne...) muffins or any of the lush choc brownies... or the others if I missed any I apologise!

supper club saturday night

REALLY looking forward to getting cracking on the prep for tomorrow night's supper club - Rosie and I are cooking for 18 wonderfull guests, including our folks and the amazing Barry and Paul, as well as lots of Charlie and Mary's friends.

We have managed to come up with the impossible - a menu that doesn't cost the earth (otherwise there'd be very little point in doing it), seems quite flash and not too difficult to make. Only thing left now is not to mess it up by over-salting, burning, drying, losing, spilling...

• starter: stuffed mushrooms and a cruchy rocket and radish salad - and a glass of dry white wine
• main course: coq au vin, braised red cabbage, greens and potatoes gratin (with the coq au vin replaced by a red onion tartlet for our one marvellous veggie guest) - and a glass of light red wine
• pudding: red fruit cheesecake with jelly on top - and a glass of fuity white wine
• cheese course: with apple, celery and homemade chutney - and a glass of deep red wine
• coffee and THE most amazing and beautiful chocs very kindly donated by L'Artisan do Chocolate - their salted caramels are to die for.... scrummy

that should keep the gang entertained for a while....

Thanks again to Charlie and Mary for hosting this wonderful event - it's going to be super fun!

Chloe

week six - the cake part of mountains molehills and cake

Rosie and I have pretty much put together the best recipes for this cookbook I can think of - we have been so lucky with our kind and fabulous family.

We have been able to steal the secrets of life itself (over dramatic?) from Barry, Vonnie, Mary, Anne, Judy and Amanda. Plus a healthy sprinkle of fun and delicious joy from Sam, Tom, Charlotte, Emily, Jo, Carol and of course me and Rosie too. Amazing!

Now we are looking forward to some great artistry from Liz and Ming and ta daaaaaa, we will have a gorgeous thing to delight the palette and the senses! All yours for a generous donation to your charity of choice (ours).

Can't wait!

Chloe