scrumptious treats

Blog Swap....

2010-06-15T01:52:00.000-07:00

Unfortunately the blog swap has been cancelled due to the lack of people wanting to join. Never mind, might try and do another one in the future. I'm a little disappointed, but maybe i need to work on getting more followers first.

Will be back soon to tell you about the wedding fair i did xx

Cupcake/baking swap....

2010-06-07T09:51:00.000-07:00

If you would like to take part in the swap please click here and leave a comment.

Thanks xx

Swap Ladies??

2010-06-01T07:55:00.000-07:00

I enjoyed the swap that Catherine at Mollycupcakes organised so much that I'm thinking of doing my own, a cupcake/baking themed swap. The rules are as follows:

1. 5 items (or more if you wish)

2. Must be cupcake or baking related

And it's that simple, just leave me a comment and I'll pick names at random and post them on here on 11th June. It would be great if you could post about the swap in your next blog post so we can get as many people as possible to join.

Looking forward to a yummy swap xx

Swap lovelies and yummy cakes.....

2010-05-10T02:55:00.000-07:00

I took part in a Easter/Spring blog swap last month and i received lots of fab things. I want to say thank you so much to Catherine at Mollycupcakes and I'm sorry it's took me so long to blog about it, who would have thought looking after baby would take up so much time lol. The box was packed full of lovely things and Catherine even sent Issy a present which was sooo nice of her and Issy loves her little rabbit. I did manage to take a few pics before i ate the yummy chocolate chick. Also the spring onions have just started coming through in our raised bed.

I've been busy baking fairy cakes and taking pictures ready for the website, which is slowly getting there. Here's just a few of my creations.

I'm off now to feed my little princess and design some lovely wedding fairy cakes ready for a small wedding fayre I'm attending in June, so I'll be back soon with more pictures.

(I can't believe i have been writing this blog post since last week.....)

2010-03-20T02:35:00.000-07:00

Growing up so fast!

So I'm lovin being a Mummy and i always thought people who said they couldn't stop staring at there babies were a little crazy but I'm finding myself doing exactly that, i can't keep my eyes off my beautiful little princess. She seems to be growing up so fast, i can't believe she's a month old today. We took her to Graves Park yesterday to see the farm animals and although she slept until we got back to the car and missed it all we still had a fab time. We saw a lamb being born, lots of little piglets and some very photogenic sheep.

When I'm not being one of those crazy baby staring ladies I'm cooking up lots of ideas for the business, i have all these wonderful creations running through my head and i can't wait to put them into practice. I'm going to try out a few idea's next week for photo purposes so the diet will of course go out of the window as someone has got to eat the fairy cakes.... right?!

Also been raking my brains for advertising ideas and where to get our name out there locally without spending too much money.... so if any of you have any ideas I'd love to hear them.

My baby girl...

2010-02-26T04:48:00.000-08:00

Yes i had a baby girl on Saturday 20th February at 3.17pm. She weighed 6lb 5.5 oz and we've called her Isobel. The 3 of us are settling nicely at home and are soooooo happy. Wont be long before she's helping mummy with the baking...

We're back....

2010-01-28T03:36:00.000-08:00

Things have been a little bit crazy at Scrumptious Treats HQ with the wonderful surprise of finding out we are going to have a new edition to the family in March we've all been busy preparing, with a little baking in between. Although I'm currently on Maternity leave i can't resist getting in the kitchen and baking lots of yummy

treats.

As extra little Christmas treats i made up boxes of our yummy Raspberry and White Chocolate Biscuits for all our friends and family, which went down very well.

With only 5 weeks to go until button is due we are all very excited, the room is nearly done (will post pics when it's complete) and i think we have everything we need. Can't quite believe there's on 5 weeks left till the big day.... very scary.

Although i have been trying to take it easy i have done a couple of cakes as favours for friends and family. I did some Christmas fairy cakes for a friend to keep her and her visitors going over the Christmas holiday.

And it was my cousins little boy's first birthday at the beginning of January so i did some jungle themed fairy cakes, which were loads of fun to make. Then last week it was her step sons birthday so i made a football cake for him. Can't wait to get back to it properly.... it will be baby in one hand and a mixer in the other.

Just ordered some sample business cards from Moo after seeing them on Sara's blog they look fab and will be perfect for when we get going again and even better they were free for 10 cards with our own images on... fab! I'll be sure to blog about them when they arrive.

I'm trying to be very organised as i know when button comes there won't be much time for anything... to start with anyway. So I've made all my 'Thank you' cards for the lovely people that buy us presents for button.

Big surprises....

2009-12-07T01:10:00.000-08:00

It's been a busy few weeks here we've had the most amazing surprise ever.... we found out a couple of weeks ago that we are having a baby. I know big shock but that wasn't the biggest surprise.... the baby is due in March so only 3 months to prepare. People keep asking how i didn't no but I've been fine none of the usual signs.

We had the scan last week and it was fantastic, we could see every little detail although we didn't get to find out the sex as the baby had it's legs up hiding. Never mind, baby is fine so
that's all that matters.

They could only fit babies head and Tummy on the picture with me being 26 wks.

I'm so excited and I'm having so much fun looking at all the the little clothes and things for the babies room.

So with all that going on i haven't had time to blog about the 1st birthday cake we did at the beginning of of November. It turned out fab, we were so pleased with the final product, lots of hard work went into it but it was all worth it when we saw the customers reaction. She loved it and so did everyone at the party (we got an invite). It was nice to get feedback from so many people.

We also held our ladies night a couple of weeks ago which was really good, the Christmas Fairy Cakes went down very well, as did our new recipe Raspberry and White Chocolate Biscuits.... yummy.

We're not doing too much at the moment as we have a lot to prepare for the new arrival as well as getting organised for Christmas. I will get some pictures of our Christmas range on here soon.

Happy Halloween...

2009-10-31T01:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday's Halloween fair at our local Hospital went really well, we'd almost sold out by 12. We had a very busy day on Friday baking and decorating all the cakes and biscuits that there wasn't time to carve the pumpkin so it had to be send up to my dad to do and i think he's made a fab job. I would just like to take some credit for the pumpkin as it was grown by me, not that i did a lot apart from put the seed in the ground.

Here's a few photo's from the fair, although the photo's aren't very good and i couldn't help getting the TV in on the picture of the stall.

The biscuits turned out really good, i didn't get chance to take a photo before they went in the bags though.

And here are the fairy cakes, again not the best photo's.

I can't believe Halloween is nearly over it's definitely my favourite time of year. We now have to start getting creative with the Christmas idea's.

Our big project for next week is a 1st Birthday cake and fairy cakes all pink and Princess like all my favourite things. I'm going to make sure it's all done in time for plenty of photo's.

Happy Halloween!

Halloween Fairy Cakes

2009-10-21T01:43:00.000-07:00

So here they are the practice run Halloween fairy cakes made for my Bf's Nephews Birthday and I'm really pleased with the outcome. They went as fast as we could put them on the plate and i got some lovely comments from the 8 and 9 year old party guests, which was very nice as I've found kids to be the biggest critics.

I've got lots more idea's up my sleeve for the Halloween Fair at my local Hospital on the 30th, can't wait to get baking and decorating. Also I've got some Halloween biscuit cutters to experiment with so I'll put some more pictures on when there done.

Today is a small last minute order, lots of mini fairy cakes which i love to do as they are so cute.

Wonderful Holiday....

2009-10-07T02:35:00.000-07:00

All refreshed and ready for lots of baking and card making after a wonderful weekend away in Northumberland. The weather was wonderful quite windy on Saturday but the sun was still out and not too cold for October. I really didn't want to leave the sea behind, i could sit forever and watch the waves crashing. Here's a few pictures, all took by me which I'm very proud of as it's the first time I've really tried to get any decent shots, my bf and dad are very good at photography so for them to say they are good means i just had to show them off!!

That's enough of my holiday snaps!

Scrumptious Treats has got a very busy few weeks ahead which I'm looking forward to, a baby shower this week, a wedding next week and then a Halloween fair in a couple of weeks and our usual venue Matlock Farmers market on 17th October. We're really looking forward to doing all the Halloween cakes and biscuits, I've got lots of ideas just hope they turn out as good as they look in my head.

The few weeks before i went away i gave the cakes a break and got stuck into making cards which I've not done for a couple of months now, the only problem is when i get started i can't seem to stop, it's very addictive.

Here's a couple of my makes....

You can't really tell on the photo but the new home is hand sewn, as are the door hinges, handle and windows.

More pictures coming soon of yummy cakes and a seek preview of the Halloween cakes as I'm baking some next week for my bf's nephews birthday party.

Just a quick post...

2009-09-15T01:11:00.000-07:00

So its been over a week since the fair at The Van Dyk Hotel in Chesterfield, the venue was beautiful and the toilets were so posh (everyone commented on the toilets, strange i know) but unfortunately we had very few customers through the door. Fortunately for us the stallholders got peckish so we sold something a least. Very annoying as so many people put a lot of work into there craft and no one came to see them, more annoying for us we spent our weekend baking only to have to give a lot away. On a brighter note we were sat between two fantastic ladies, one who made cards and the other made bags both lovely crafts, we had a giggle and a gossip which got us through the day.

This weekend we are back at our favourite venue Matlock Farmers Market, lovely people and lots of yummy produce. It is very hard to resist sampling and buying from every stall.

xx

Pay it forward anyone??

2009-09-02T03:24:00.000-07:00

So I've joined a PIF over on All About Eden and I'm really excited as I've never done anything like this before and to tell you the truth I'd never heard of it before reading about it on Sara's blog.

For those of you who don't know what it means PIF stands for pay it forward, basically the first 3 people to comment on the blog will receive something handmade from the blog owner, then those 3 people post about it on there own blog then send a handmade gift to the first 3 people that comment on there blog and so on (hope that makes sense). It sounds great and i can't wait to start it, think I'm going to make some cards to send out as it's been ages since i sat and made any.

So if you would like to join in on my PIF please leave a comment.

We had a family christening at the weekend and me and mum decided it would be nice to bake some fairy cakes for the occasion (any excuse to bake and be creative. We were very pleased with the outcome as it's the first time we attempted the middle cake.

What do you think?

I'm organising things for a craft fair that we are standing at on Sunday at Van Dyks Hotel in Chesterfield, really looking forward to it as it's a new venue to us. I'll let you no how it goes and post some pictures next week.

Better get back to it as there's lots to do.

xx

Very good weekend....

2009-08-17T06:14:00.000-07:00

So the farmers market went well at Matlock this weekend we completely sold out which is always a very good feeling although we did get moaned at for having no leftovers... men eh!

It's the first time we've taken our Chocolate caramel shortbread and Almond crunchies and they were a big hit, as always so were the Oat, raisin and chocolate biscuits.

Here's a photo of one of this weekends orders, yummy chocolate fairy cakes with milk and white chocolate sprinkles.

Now totally off the subject of cakes, my week has just got off to a really good start. I had to pop into town to pick up a few photos of our cakes for the album. So while i was waiting for the photos i had a browse round boots and was offered a makeover by Benefit Cosmetics and i came out feeling really good. So i now have a shopping list of lovely makeup... do you think they will take cakes as payment!!

New treats added....

2009-08-12T02:49:00.000-07:00

After another couple of weeks of being very busy with one thing and another the blog has yet again been neglected, but we are back.

We had a lovely weekend off and spent it experimenting with lots of new recipes and we have now added Chocolate Caramel Shortbread, Chocolate Shortbread Fingers and Rocky Road Bites to our menu. None of them stayed in there tins long enough to take any photos but we'll be making some more as we've already had an order for the Chocolate Caramel Shortbread and we're at Matlock Farmers Market this Saturday.

The new website is coming along nicely, it's all designed on paper and ready to be transferred from paper to the computer or whatever these cleaver computer type people do. (this is a very big hint to my partner to get it started, do you think he'll get it)

Here's a couple of photos of our first corporate order we had from a local pub for a couple of cakes.

Coffee & Walnut

Carrot & Orange

We're had lots of good feedback from these cakes and more orders.

Think that's everything we wanted to tell you, we'll back soon with more news and treat updates.

Welcome

2009-07-22T12:50:00.000-07:00

Hello and welcome to our new blog... it's been very busy at Scrumptious Treats HQ, we've been creating lots of new treats, running the Race for life for Cancer Research UK, hosting a very successful ladies night, getting our first corporate order and doing plenty of party orders in between. There's so many things we want to tell you about and pictures to show you we're going to do a few post. So stay tuned and we'll be back very soon....

xx