I’m a big fan of crafts and creativity, whether it’s clever decor, home DIY or yummy masterpieces of baking, chocolatiers and beautiful treats (and especially these things because it means I get to eat them).
My sister, niece and I recently went to the Cake and Bake Show last weekend, which was huge fun for us as we all love seeing different ideas and creative pieces, and of course we all love stuffing our faces with cake. We knew it would be a good show when we were greeted with this huge BFG sculpture at the entrance – who doesn’t love Roald Dahl, fantasy and cake mixed together?
We saw a huge range of cakes, cupcakes, biscuits cakepops, meringues and many more, plus lots of professional baking and cooking tools, which was serious inspiration heaven, whether you’re a baker or not.
Below are some of the professional cakes we saw, as well as many of the ones on display we loved – it’s amazing how many ideas there were.
(Be warned, my sister and I took hundreds of pictures, I’ve tried to cut down how many I’ve posted below but there were just too many we loved and which I didn’t to keep out!)
Professional cakes
This was a display of professional companies advertising their services and showcasing their cake and biscuit skills. I loved that some of these were set up like wedding dessert tables, where the treats all match each other and have a theme. Serious luxury here!
Exhibitor cakes
These were cakes and cupcakes on display by vendors selling tools for baking, so a lot of these were on display to show how the tools could be used to make something beautiful. Again, I had a lot of favourites with these as I never realised how many ways of decorating and creating baked goods there were, but I did love the beautiful pieces and colours. I guess my most favourite is the first picture below – the Alice in Wonderland theme cake, which really appealed to my love of all things Wonderland!
Competition cakes
There was a long line to see this, but we just had to line up to see these. The theme for the cakes in the competition was ‘Myths, Legends and Fantasy’, which I just loved because it’s always been one of my favourite themes in just about everything (film, books, games…!)
It was amazing to see how this was interpreted, with a range of myths and stories from across culture (not to mention media, like the Neverending Story!).
I was going to only post a few of these, but then opted to show all of the entries because I thought each baker had something beautiful in each piece – I wouldn’t know which one to choose as the winner!
The Harlequin Tea Set 
Some seriously amazing cakes – it was a good day out
Agreed, some amazing talent at the show!