weekly cake club to showcase the best experimental skills in cake baking and a forum for lively discussions on cake making skills, pitfalls and troubleshooting.
Jonathan Brandt| World Citizen
Jonathan bakes yummy traditional english cakes.
Gokhan Tut| British Kurd
Gokhan specialises in triple chocolate brownies.
Gabrielle Larocque| Canada
Gabrielle brings new insights into the rapid application of icing and clever ways of eating cupcakes.
Ainur Kakpenova| Kazakhstan
Bring on more of the classic Russian recipes!
Rose Gostner | Italy
Extensive experience in human-cake interactions. Speciality are delicious light and creamy creations with a perfectly styled finish
Alice Bachmann| France
She's French, what else do I need to say...
Daniel Roth | Germany
Bakes a traditional German cheesecake after grandmother's recipe to perfection. Not shy of new experiments: Remember this two-dimensional swiss roll?
Nida Siddiqui | India
Yummy cakes and desert with an Indian theme: the ingredients are a mystery, but who cares as long as it is sweet and tasty!
Ben Fitton | Cheshire
Very keen experimentalist who is always good for a surprise. Eating habits restrict the permissible ingredients and result in the exclusion of strawberries, bananas, coconut and ground almonds from recipes (unless very well mixed in and hidden).
Sam Jefferyes | Dreamland
By far the most efficient cake eater in the club, never shy of a second or third helping and not fussy about helping the disposal of failed experiments.
Chris Smith | Kinetochoreland
A gifted experimentalist tackling even complicated multistep recipes with unusual ingredients.
Rachel Jones | Clathrinland
Rachel was rescued from a professional baking career by joining us. Known for regular cookie baking exercises to feed the hungry late-night workers.
Harriet Bell | Worchestershire
The most perfect cake decorator: dazzling everybody with gold-plated entry examination cup cakes that were almost too pretty to eat.
Anne Straube | Deutschland
Particularly fond of non-baking cheese cakes with berries. Likes the challenge of using as many of Ben's excluded ingredients as possible in a single cake and see him eat it.
Membership is by application to the current membership. The decision process involves (1) an initial evaluation of anecdotal baking experience in a cake club meeting, (2) shortlisted candidates will then be invited to supply a cake for the entry examination. Satisfactory completion of the process allows participation in weekly cake club meetings and inclusion in the baking rota.
31 October 13 |
Sam's Halloween cake.
Lots of effort and skill went into this spooky surprise.
15 November 13 |
Chris' chocolate junk cake.
A cheesecake decorated with a wild collection of chocolate-containing junk.
10 January 14 |
Alice's Tarte � la Praline.
An extremely promising entry examination cake following the secret family recipe.
27 Sep 13 |
Ben's autumn cup cakes.
Edible sugar and butter on fluffy little cup cakes with a hidden little something in the middle.
28 August 13 |
Rachel's entry examination cake.
A very chocolatey cake that left no doubts regarding her admission to the cake club.
21 August 13 |
Anne's take on a green fluorescent cake.
Creme de Menthe cheesecake
It receives great marks for colour, but could have been a bit more minty...
15 August 2013 |
Ben's delicious double header.
A key lime pie and a chocolate tart with summer berries. Yummy!!!
6 August 2013 |
Harriet's carrot cake.
This one had to go into the oven twice, but the final product was perfectly presented as usual and very tasty too.
8 May 13 |
Anne's Russischer Zupfkuchen.
A classic made the foolproof way by using a not-to-be-named German cake mixture.
9 April 13 |
Rose's entry examination cake.
A very delicious chocolate tiramisu cake.
You can find the recipe here .