8th June 2013 Celebrate Leeds Loves Food (and cake!) We’ve been inspired by the Leeds Loves Food festival to celebrate our love of cake, and have launched a baking competition to raise funds for Age UK Leeds. All money raised will help support some of the most vulnerable older people in the city.   To [...]

    Any CCC member wanting to attend this event and bake a cake from the CCC Cook Book please email: Duanne:      duanne1974@hotmail.com   If you want to attend anyway, then why not drop him a line and say you will be coming. You can keep me company as I sign loads of [...]

I am just back from our 4th Runcorn & Widnes Clandestine Cake Club event and feeling full of lovely cakes – as it should be! The theme was “Green-Fingered Goodies” and I wanted to challenge our bakers to bake a cake inspired by their garden or using ingredients that you could find growing in a [...]

Our latest Ribble Valley event took place at the wonderful new coffee shop at Holden Clough nursery at Bolton by Bowland (www.holdencloughnursery.com) where the friendly staff made us most welcome.  Thank you so much to them.  I’m sure we’ll all be returning to sample their own cakes, which looked delicious. The theme was designed to [...]

Thanks to everyone who attended the 2nd Leamington & Warwick event, “My Signature Bake”.  A great success with some fantastic cakes baked, I think I tried 8 different ones last night, and brought a slice of the rest home to work my way through!  Great venue as well which I am sure we will visit [...]

It was a tipsy soiree for CCC Wakefield on 13 May, as members recreated their favourite drinks in cakey form – and proved that Wakefield’s moniker of ‘the Merrie City’ is well founded! A whopping 18 cakes were on offer, and once again our bakers raised the bar (all pun intended) with a cocktail of [...]

Our second event was hosted by a new member, Eline. It was a very international meeting, with guests of 7 different nationalities! Our theme was Cakes from our Childhood. Inspired by their childhood memories, the bakers made cakes from their home countries, cakes they used to dream about as children and cakes they loved to [...]

The first meeting of the CCC The Hague group took place at my house. Having only recently moved to the Netherlands, I was worried about finding people to join, but the event seemed to spark a lot of interest in the expat community. Although a bout of flu that was going around slightly reduced our [...]