Photo copyright Nathan Pask 2011
Will and Cake is a Royal Wedding inspired pop up cake shop for one day only, Thursday 28th April, at Maiden in Shoreditch. A host of bakers will be selling their goods there, including the awesome Molly Bakes. Get there early and stock up on cupcakes and cake pops to enjoy while you watch the wedding on Friday. Or not, as the case may be! The shop opens at 11am and will close when the cakes sell out - if previous events are anything to go by they'll sell out quick!
If Will and Cake doesn't excite you, how about a more traditional wedding offering from Fiona Cairns, who as you may know has been chosen to make the wedding cake for Wills and Kate.
Fiona is of course making the traditional style cake for the wedding, not the rich tea and chocolate fridge cake that everyone seems to be a great topic of discussion in the cake world. She has also teamed up with Sainsbury's with these exclusive boxes of 9 red, white and blue commemorative cupcakes for those who prefer a more traditional style of cake. According to her website, Fiona's company bakes 27,000 cupcakes a week! Eek. I'd still call these fairy cakes myself (buttercream = cupcake v icing = fairy cake) but that is still a lot of cake! I've had Fiona's cakes a couple of times and they've always been light and moist. And my delicious sticky toffee cupcakes recipe is adapted from a Fiona Cairns recipe.
Sainsbury's have given me a box of these cupcakes to give away to one lucky, UK based, blog reader. For a chance to win a box, to be sent to you direct from Sainsbury's, please leave a comment below, with contact details if you don't have a blog link (twitter, email etc). If you would like an additional chance to win please tweet a link to this post and let me know that you have done so, so your name can be entered twice. Closing date for entries is Monday 25th April at noon.
Update: the winner chosen at random via the random generator was Mel! Congrats and I hope you enjoy them!
