Last night, Dorset CCC met for our March meeting near Wimborne. We had an excellent turnout – over 20 ladies came along from all over the county. This month’s theme was ‘Cooking the books’ to celebrate the launch of the CCC cookery book, and theme was to bake a cake from your favourite cookery book or the CCC book and then to bring the books along too to have a look.

We had several cakes from the CCC book, as well as favourite books written by Mary Berry and Fiona Cairns amongst others. We had so much cake to get through, we all started flagging after two or three slices! Many members have purchased the CCC book and the feedback has been wonderful to hear. You’ll see below some of the cakes from the book which our bakers made.

We had a really wide range of cakes on the night, which included:

St Paddy’s Day Guinness Cake baked by Gina

Lemon drizzle cake, made by Janine

Chocolate honeycomb chocolate cake, from Amanda

Date, ricotta and polenta cake, baked by Hazel

Jemon and poppy seed cake kugelhopf, baked by Jan

Lemon curd sponge, made by Sandra

Battenberg, baked by Charlotte

Orange and pistachio cake, baked by Rachel

Lemon poppy madeira cake, by Zoe

Neapolitan cake baked by Claire

Cherry bakewell, baked by Paula

Amaretto cream cake, made by Cherie and Shannon

Cherry and apricot ring, baked by Janet

Coconut and peach cake with white chocolate frosting baked by Katie

Tiramisu cake, baked by Alison

Lemon Limoncello cake baked by me

Our venue for the evening was the Fox and Hounds pub, near Wimborne, which hosted us so well. Thanks to everyone for coming along and looking forward to next time already!