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.
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| 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.
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| Nigella’s Birthday Custard Sponge by Ellie |
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| My Chocolate Salted Caramel Cake |
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| Cocoa & Sweet Potato Cake |
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| Carrot, Courgette and Orange Cake |
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| Carrot and Walnut Cake |
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| Chocolate Chess Cake |
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| Gorgeous Lemon Cream Cake |
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| Nigella’s Chocolate Delight |
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| Caramel Apple Cake by HungryHinny |
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| Malteser Cake |
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| Iced Lemon Curd Layer Cake |
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| Banana Cake by The Cow Lady |
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| Gluten Free Chocolate Cake |
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| Round One! |
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.
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| Bedruthan Steps |
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| The road to nowhere |
Wow, what a fantastic looking collection of cakes for a party! I bet you all felt spoilt and happy to have so much choice!
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!
wow that looks like a very dangerously delicious place to be at 😉
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 lot of delicious looking cake. Certianly a fun and tasting club to be part of 🙂
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!
What a nice display of cakes! They are all beautifully made.
Happy birthday. The cakes look delicious. I especially like the simplicity of the coffee and walnut cake. Yum x
Wow-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!!
Many many many lovely cakes as was to be expected.
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
What a talented bunch you are. The cakes look stunning!
What a beautiful display of cakes, could you get a slice of each cake????? I like the photos of Cornwall.
Mmmm those cakes look amazing!
Fabulous cake selection! Which ones did you taste?
These cakes are so beautiful!!
Have a nice day
Wow! 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!!