As with all Christmas's for me,
the festive season arrives so very quickly.
I spend a lot of time organising and working through to do lists
and building new ones, without actually realising that the festive jobs do
actually get done and that while it arrives hurriedly I don't have to beat
myself up for leaving everything to the last minute.
But a Christmas cake was
definitely not on my to do list, and I'm jolly glad it was not. For I spent a wonderful evening at Chez Tante Mabel Thursday 19th December decorating my own Christmas Cake.
Proprietor and top cake baker,
Bev Barker Brown has recently been hosting Christmas cake decorating workshops,
which have proved extremely popular.
Accompanied by some fellow LIFT ladies we arrived at the warm and cosy
kitchen of Chez Tante Mabel, the smell of Christmas... cakes, mulled wine and
mince pies. Bev talked us through the
cakes and the ingredients that we were going to use to decorate our cakes.
What a great way to get in touch
with that inner child before Christmas, particularly those with busy lives with
children, having a couple of hours out of the hecticness of it all is delightful. So there we are rolling out sugar icing, cutting
out shapes, talking about our Christmases and feeling quite nostalgic.
Halfway through it was time to
take a break with a couple of Bev's mince pies and mulled wine ....mmmm Let me tell you, Bev does not skimp on
ingredients, the mulled wine was gorgeous as were her mince pies.
The final adornments were added
to our cakes and lovingly wrapped by Bev
so that they could travel well to our homes. All in all it was a couple of hours very well
spent.
If you have not visited Chez Tante Mabel, then please do save their website details. Following on from these successful workshops,
Bev will be hosting similar workshops for Easter 2014. These activities along with the treasure
trove of delights in her shop next door, will make a great place to escape to, with or without the children!
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