Archive for August, 2010

Here at the dish and spoon HQ, we’re getting quite excited for a number of reasons:

1)     Some of our awesome 1950’s furniture has started to arrive for the shop  – think your gran’s kitchen store cupboard!

2)     Our snazzy, ultra wipe-cleanable kitchen floor has gone down (yep..just us that’s excited about that!)

3)     Burton Rd has a slight buzz about it just now, down we think, to the impending 2-day extravaganza that is Westfest

Westfest is a 2-day shindig (organised by the lovely peeps @ Didsbury Life) where all the fab local businesses along Burton Road throw open their doors, let their imaginations run wild and provide some general merriment for you the customer! Naturally, when we got wind of this we wanted to get well and truly involved! So, whilst we will still be up to our eyes in building work inside, we will be temporarily setting up shop outside for the 2 days.

General theme for our day will be the all-round goddess of baking and kitchen domesticity…Delia Smith. As well as mountains of cakes and cupcakes for your munching pleasure (and some free samples too!), there will be lots of chances to win goodies and discounts in the shop when it opens.

Check out everything that is going on at www.westfest.org.uk

After 2 years, 2 months and a few more days of searching we’ve finally found the perfect place to set up a home for ‘And The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon’. The ink has dried on our lease and so we can now let you all know that you will be able to eat cake and drink tea courtesy of yours truly at 230 Burton Road, West Didsbury.

We’ve had some lovely times on the market (don’t worry we will still be doing them, never forget your roots…man!) and our little kitchen has served us well (we can’t even begin to count the number of cakes that have been produced out of it) but its time to spread our wings and flee the nest to Didsbury!!

In our small but perfectly formed shop, you will find a shrine to all things sweet; with cakes, slices, brownies and puddings baked fresh every day and some splendid tea and coffee to boot. You will also be available to browse our range of cakey gifts and accessories and admire our range of vintage baking paraphernalia! We’ll be holding events and classes (once we’ve settled in!) so keep an eye out here and on our Facebook and Twitter pages for dates and info.

A very big thanks to all of our lovely friends, family and fab customers who have supported us and spread our cake love over the last 2 years. We look forward to hopefully seeing you more regularly soon!!

P.S. The piccie is an example of the type of lovely aforementioned baking paraphenalia! We have a bit of an obesession with scales here

Phewee…how is it August already?? Sadly, this means the last few weeks of all our lovely British berries L. So as a homage to this lovely fruity produce, our cupcakes will be going all berry-tastic at this weekend’s Didsbury Food Market.

Joining the berry brigade will be some yummy banoffee cupcakes, some truly splendid Snickers rocky road and maybe even a white choc and raspberry blondie or two.

Salivating just reading this?? Then make sure you get to the market early. Cake lovers of Didsbury were out in force last month with cupcakes selling out by 12.30pm with the rest following suite by 1.30pm! (don’t worry we learnt our lesson and we’ve made more this month!).

See you there!

P.S. We’ll be showing off our lovely new cake stands, courtesy of Planet Vintage Girl… we love em’!

P.P.S. Hope you like the piccie, not really related, just liked the summery colour scheme and thought you might too?