I'll Huff and I'll Puff......BAKEFEST 2014

Last weekend I entered my first ever competition, Bakefest 2014. This wonderful event was organised to raise much needed awareness and funds for ACT Meningitis. Below is a list of the category options but as it was my first competition I was automatically in the 'Novice Sugarcraft' section. The theme was 'Happy Birthday' which left it wide open to interpretation and after much consideration I decided to do a children's cake based upon the fairy tale of 'The 3 Little Pigs'.

First of all I began with the below cake dummies and there was many hours spent transitioning from before to after!!

The picture doesn't show it clearly but using my small letter cutters and some white petal paste (always better than sugarpaste for letters!) and wrote Happy Birthday Jack. Surprisingly, I was the only person who had writing on their entries for this category, below is a look at the competition!

There was some super demonstrations and prizes to be won at the event as well as lots of exhibitors supplying all sorts of equipment for decorating. I attended the Macaroon workshop which was in conjunction with Goodalls and was hosted my some of the stars of The Great Irish Bake Off and yes....this lead me to wanting macaroons for the whole rest of the weekend! So on Sunday afternoon I headed into Galway city and to the cutest little French bakery Le Petit Delice and treated myself to some of their fab offering:

Returning back to Salthill, I was THRILLED to be announced as winner of the category! Along with the cutest little trophy, I also got a voucher for Stuff 4 Cakes which is an absolute Aladdin's Cave of all things baking and cake related and I will definitely do a haul once I use it.