What a glorious first birthday party. A bunch of Cornish cake fans gathered last Friday to celebrate the first birthday of Cornwall’s Clandestine Cake Club. Ellie Michell, our generous founder and mistress of ceremonies, has been coming up with interesting themes and locating fabulous venues over the last twelve months.
As this was a Friday, I was not at work and thus able to attend – making this my fourth CCC. I was particularly pleased to catch up with this month’s We Should Cocoa host, the HungryHinny.
Watergate Bay
We gathered on a bright and sunny, if showery, day at the Watergate Bay Hotel near Newquay. The function room has been newly built and enjoys fabulous sea views over the bay. CT, who somehow blagged his way into this event and was the only man present, attempted to eat his body weight in cake. I’m pleased to say he failed in this venture, but I followed his lead and enjoyed more cake than was probably good for me, not sadly, that I managed to try all of them.
Driven by guilt we decided to make our way up onto the cliffs and walk off some of our excesses. Somehow we managed to dodge the showers and enjoyed an invigorating hike along Bedruthan Steps.
Bedruthan Steps
The road to nowhere
Looking Towards Padstow from Park Head near Bedruthan Steps
What a load of fab looking cakes and that malterser cake has my name all it! My CCC club in France is so hard to run, no motivated people here sadly, so I may galvanise them all in the Scarborough! Well done for 1 year in Cornwall! Karen
Seeing the pictures of all the cakes makes me feel full again – I’m actually a little ashamed by how many I managed to try, but they were very thin slivers… Lovely to see you and CT, hopefully catch up at another CCC again soon!
Fantastic. I can just see your cake poking out on the table there! Good job you had some amazing views to walk off some of the cake, I wouldn’t have known where to stop.
WoW! What a great selection of birthday cakes. Tell me, how do you all manage to try a bit of each without exploding … I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to stop at just a spoonful of each!
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belleau kitchen
17th October 2012 at 6:51 amWow! One year old. Well done you lot! And what an incredible array of cake. It makes one feel jealous and a little ill at the same time!!
manu
17th October 2012 at 8:56 amThese cakes are so beautiful!!
Have a nice day
Foodycat
17th October 2012 at 9:07 amFabulous cake selection! Which ones did you taste?
Jazz
17th October 2012 at 9:30 amMmmm those cakes look amazing!
rita cooks italian
17th October 2012 at 10:35 amWhat a beautiful display of cakes, could you get a slice of each cake????? I like the photos of Cornwall.
Jacqueline
17th October 2012 at 11:33 amWhat a talented bunch you are. The cakes look stunning!
Karen S Booth
17th October 2012 at 3:45 pmWhat a load of fab looking cakes and that malterser cake has my name all it! My CCC club in France is so hard to run, no motivated people here sadly, so I may galvanise them all in the Scarborough! Well done for 1 year in Cornwall! Karen
Chris
17th October 2012 at 4:29 pmMany many many lovely cakes as was to be expected.
Green Dragonette
17th October 2012 at 6:40 pmWow-I get a little behind catching up on my blog reading and then find you have all been baking these wonderful cakes-I’m almost drooling!!
Miss C Flash
17th October 2012 at 7:53 pmHappy birthday. The cakes look delicious. I especially like the simplicity of the coffee and walnut cake. Yum x
mylittleitaliankitchen
17th October 2012 at 9:39 pmWhat a nice display of cakes! They are all beautifully made.
hungryhinny
17th October 2012 at 9:20 pmSeeing the pictures of all the cakes makes me feel full again – I’m actually a little ashamed by how many I managed to try, but they were very thin slivers… Lovely to see you and CT, hopefully catch up at another CCC again soon!
Katie
18th October 2012 at 6:11 amWow what a lot of delicious looking cake. Certianly a fun and tasting club to be part of 🙂
All That I'm Eating
18th October 2012 at 10:16 amFantastic. I can just see your cake poking out on the table there! Good job you had some amazing views to walk off some of the cake, I wouldn’t have known where to stop.
Shu Han
18th October 2012 at 11:13 amwow that looks like a very dangerously delicious place to be at 😉
Chele
18th October 2012 at 5:42 pmWoW! What a great selection of birthday cakes. Tell me, how do you all manage to try a bit of each without exploding … I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to stop at just a spoonful of each!
Caroline
21st October 2012 at 5:05 pmWow, what a fantastic looking collection of cakes for a party! I bet you all felt spoilt and happy to have so much choice!