Birds vs Bees Bake Sale for National AIDS Trust

We at the Cambridge Cake’n’Bake Club were recently contacted by the National AIDS Trust to ask for our help in raising funds and awareness through their Bake Aware initiative – a very exciting, and very tasty, initiative to encourage people to talk about the Birds and the Bees, and HIV awareness.

There are 100,000 people living with HIV in the UK, and 1 in 4 people don’t know they have it. Those who do have it still face discrimination in school and in the workplace, and this is what NAT are trying to stop.

On Sunday 19^th May, Cake’n’Bake Club will be holding a Birds Vs Bees bake sale at the Cambridge Nursing Centre, 5 High Street , Chesterton , from 10am – 2pm. We’d love it if you could come along, treat yourself to some of our baked goods (and they are good!) and help us to raise funds for this very worthy cause. We’ve split into two teams, Teams Birds and Team Bees, and each team will be competing to raise the maximum funds for the charity. We’re going to put in all the hard work in our kitchens – for you; it’s going to be a piece of cake :-)

Please feel free to help our cause by spreading the word! 

Happy Baking

May - Eurovision Bake Contest

Hello!

Sorry it's been a little quiet around here lately... we're all busy little bees!

A few meetings ago, whilst enjoying our tea and cake, the topic of conversation moved onto the Eurovision Song Contest, and how atrociously fabulous it is. So, we decided that in May, the month of the song contest, we would host our own Eurovision Bake Contest! Each member got to pick a country from the list of eligible countries, and they baked something to represent that country in the contest. We then each voted for our top three countries; giving 12 points to first place, 10 points to second place and 8 points to third place, and the country with the most votes was dubbed the overall winner of the competition, and received a commemorative mug! (Which I foolishly forgot to take, so there will be an awards ceremony at our next meeting!)

Anna, representing Greece, baked a lovely honey cake; Jennie chose to represent Hungary with a traditional apple pie; Joy contributed our savoury course this month with her Italian bread sticks, homemade pesto, and some sun-dried tomato biscotti; Laura S represented Belgium with some very traditional biscuits; Mary-Anne baked some traditional Israeli honey-dough pastries for her entry; Nathalie, representing her native France, baked some delectable hazelnut madaleines; Ruth baked for Azerbaijan with some delicious baklava; Sally, despite not believing that her country, Moldova, actually exists, baked some delicious custard bread rolls; Stacey M also based her bake on apple pie, but this time with a cupcake twist for The Netherlands; I represented Sweden with a Princesse Torta; and Tom, representing our home and country great Britain, baked a delicious carrot cake in the shape of Big Ben! (Sort of...)

The bakes were eaten, the votes were counted, and the winner of the Cake'n'Bake Club Eurovision bake Contest 2013 was... France! Congratulations to first-timer Nathalie on this monumental achievement. (And I promise to bring your mug to our June meeting!!)

I'll post the photos a little later, but for now - happy baking!