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?

Ok so if there was a ‘Slack Blogger of the Year’ awards held, we would surely win hands-down for the month of July. It isn’t because we didn’t want to talk to you lovely people, we have just been up to our ears in cake-related stuff (and we admit we did have a sneaky holiday in there too…only 3 days mind!) so for that we are truly sorry L.

Anyway, onto brighter and breezier stuff, we’ve been doing lots of lovely weddings including our favourite so far … the VW Camper Van wedding for Mark & Sian. As camper enthusiasts ourselves we were a little (too) excited when we heard about their ideas for their cakes. Check out the fab hand-carved campervan made by Sian’s dad..clever man!

Other than that, we’ve been beavering away on other FAIRLY BIG stuff which we still can’t tell you all about (should be able to in 4 weeks time!) and testing, testing, testing all ready for afore-mentioned big news J

Don’t forget we will next be at Didsbury Food Market on August 14th, Mr. Dish & Spoon (james) will be dazzling people with his cake serving skills so make sure you go and say hi!!

We simply cannot get enough of all the fab summer fruits in season at the moment. It is for this reason that we will be having a total berry fest at our stall on Manchester Piccadilly Farmer’s market on Friday 25^th & Saturday 26^th June.

New additions to the line-up will be cherry and almond cupcakes who go by the alias of ‘Cherry Bakewell’, a deelish blueberry and vanilla layer cake and lots of lovely raspberry and white chocolate brownies. We hope you share our penchant for all things berry-like otherwise it could be a quiet weekend J.

See you there!

P.S. We will have our brand new summer bunting up, we haven’t showcased this yet at Piccadilly and folks…boy are you in for a treat!

Calling all the sweet-toothed of Didsbury… And The Dish Ran Away With the Spoon will be making the first of its monthly appearances at Didsbury Farmers Market starting on Saturday 12^th June. All the usual cakey suspects will be there including gooey brownies, scrumptilitious (is that a word??) bakewell slices, LOTS of lovely cupcakes and the grandma of all cakes the Viccy sponge.

Soo, if you haven’t yet sampled our wares come along , say hello – the market is in front of Didsbury Library - and fill your cake boots J

Oh yes nearly forgot … as a tribute to a certain sporting event that is happening that evening we will be selling worldcup cup cakes – the perfect accompaniment for your world cup parties (don’t eat them with a beer though not sure that would go down so well!)

It’s been a long time coming but fingers (and toes) crossed it looks like summer is finally here J. The good folks at Manchester City Council have decided to mark the passing of the winter climes with a lovely Summer Market with a fantastic English Country Garden Theme.

Naturally, when we heard the theme we were all over it like a rash and decided that it was finally time for the Vicky Sponge to make her grand appearance again. Joining her will be yummy fruity cupcakes (we only use British fruit you see and its back in season – wahey!) and some absolutely cracking new slices in the form of raspberry, white chocolate & macadamia nut brownies (or whitey’s as one of dish and spoon’s friends recently called them J) and a simply divine bakewell slice.

Sooo … head down to New Cathedral Street (the street near M&S with all the posh shops on) for your slice (ahem!) of the action.

See you there!

P.S. Sorry we’ve been a bit quiet recently…lots on you see … more on that in the next few weeks!

Hurrah, the sun has finally decided its time to don its hat and to celebrate we have been experimenting with some lovely springy/summery, zesty cakey flavours. Our favourite is a yummy lemon drizzle cake which is quite frankly drizzle-icious. Come and see us and pick up a slice at Piccadilly Farmers Market, we are there for a whole 3 days this weekend as it’s St. George’s Day and the nice peeps at Manchester Markets have decided to give us an extra day J

Joining the lemon drizzle cake will be Toffee Butterscotch cupcakes, retro-tastic Coffee & Walnut cupcakes and pecan-nut choc brownies which you good people couldn’t get enough of last month!

Note it in your diaries with haste as extra cake days don’t come along too often!

P.S. Hope you like the piccie - a lovely bunch of daffodils that I found this week, brightened up the D&S kitchen no-end!

Woo hoo, spring has sprung and it’s time to come out of our winter hibernation J.

To celebrate the sprunging of Spring, we are producing some
eggstra (see what we did there) special cupcakes and layer cakes
for you lovely people to enjoy. On sale from 26^th March will be mini egg and crème egg cupcakes and in the spirit of championing all things

chocolatey, joining them will be  a chocolate and vanilla marble

cake. 

You can order these Easter treats from us via the website or come and see us at Piccadilly Farmer’s Market on 26^th & 27^th March. Please note, we may be very smiley at the market as it will be our first market for a while where our toes aren’t numb….yippeee!

Wedding fever is already starting to kick in at Dish & Spoon HQ so what better time to get our creative sprinkling heads on than for a wedding fayre at the fabulously chic Harvey Nichols in Manchester City Centre. Expect traditional and funky displays so whatever floats your boat, we should have a design or sprinkle to cover it.

From cocktails and couture wedding dresses to boutique honeymoon destinations, Harvey Nicks will have it covered, so it promises to be a fab evening!

We will be selling a select range of our cakes for a bargainous £1 each and with admission to the fayre being free …what’s not to like?