The Great British Bake Sale

Igirusu no keki, sold out shot.



Way back in October Tilly and I came up with an idea on how to make some extra dosh. This idea turned into reality last week when we embarked on selling British cakes at the local flea market.
Saturday saw us baking solidly from 1pm till 11.30pm, with a break for a walk to get some vino! Which of course fuelled us for the evening of baking, bagging cakes and labelling alongwith copious amounts of giggling. Not sure whether this was from exhaustion or the realisation of how mental this idea had become.
We had the ole union jack spread out on the table and put our vast selection of cakes on the table at 10am on Sunday morning, scones with jam and cream, flapjacks, butterfly cakes, shortbread and carrot cake. Many of the Japanese bargain hunters were intrigued by the stall, not sure whether it was just to come and stare at the two gaiijin girls or have a good feel of all the cakes. The flapjacks were slow to go mainly because this was a completely new cake to the punters, however once we put some samples out they soon went. By 12.30pm we had sold out, we even had to disappoint a few people at the end who were hoping to purchase a few cakes.
After deducting the ingredient expenses and cost of flea market we made a tidy profit. This was our trial day and we have decided to have another stall in May and refine our marketing skills and bulk buy the ingredients.


Butterfly cakes.

Tilly prepares the sign which will draw in our punters.

Delia and Nigella watch out, Sam Leyton future domestic godess!