Just a quick post...

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.

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Pay it forward anyone??

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.

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Very good weekend....

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!!

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New treats added....

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.

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Welcome

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