A year today Cornish Fancies was born....

Really I should have announced it with some sort of fanfair and bunting (and of course cake!) but the truth is, is that it's just been too busy that we missed it!! I just happened to glance into my diary and I had written on this date Happy 1st Birthday Cornish Fancies! So I thought now might be a good time to explain a little about how we began and what we now do....Cornish Fancies was born after my friend Liz's first child Anna started her first day at school and I sent round some cupcakes to cheer her up. As she was already attending a local market selling crafty items, she suggested - well nagged! - that I should do it too - and so I did - with LOTS of help from Liz as I had my little boy to look after too. So I started selling various cupcakes at the local market every other week and they were very popular. Soon I started experimenting and developed other items I could sell such as the Cupcake Bouquets which proved to be a big hit - particularly with local hen parties!! Word soon got 'round! 

After nagging Liz lots she too decided to sell yummy sweet and savoury treats at the local market to get a few extra pennies and she started doing really well too. We attended the local school Christmas Fair and although still seperately we both did really really well! It soon  became apparent that we were more or less doing the same sort of thing and hey presto! Cornish Fancies as it is now was born!Liz and I both have young children under 6 - 3 between us and they keep us very very busy, but it's lovely to make something and see people's eyes light up and actually then take a few pennies for it! We're SO excited about Cornish Fancies and we're dedicated to every single order that we get to make sure it's baked fresh, using yummy free-range eggs (always) and decorated perfectly for our customers.

We're so proud of our treat/dessert tables! If you haven't heard of them before, they're basically a yummy selection of all of your favourite sweet or savoury things to eat that you and your guests can enjoy!  Our treat/dessert tables have everything you could possibly want and more - cupcakes, macaroons, fudge, chocolate brownies, cookies and so much more!!! You get to choose everything too so if there's something you don't like that's fine and if there's something you love - great just choose more of it!!

In which I buy a vintage birdcage!

Well today I went to buy a birdcage! The latest trend (or so I read) in wedding decoration is to have a vintage birdcage displaying various items or somewhere to post wedding cards etc and I saw somewhere that someone had attached cookies to a vintage birdcage on a dessert table and it looked really effective and so.....!!! I think Liz thinks I'm slightly potty but she's humouring me (for the moment!). I am planning on baking some yummy butterfly shaped cookies to attach to the bird cage and think it will good for when we go exhibiting at the Wedding Fayre on 2nd October (fast approaching!!!) at St Michael's Spa Hotel, Falmouth.

Here goes nothing....

Well, here I am sat in front of this screen and keep looking at the word blog and wondering what on Earth to entertain you all with (all one of you out there who's happened to stumble upon this blog probably by mistake and wondered who on Earth I am wittering on about cakes....!). 

I don't really know where to begin other than to tell you about our little company Cornish Fancies a little business set up by two Mums wanting to earn a few pennies by doing what we like doing best- baking! I (Vicky) bake cupcakes, traditional cakes, cupcake bouquets, cookies, whoopie pies, macaroons etc etc and Liz bakes a whole host of delicious goodies including brownies (her speciality!), gooey Malteser fudge and a savoury favourite Cheese & Sesame Rounds just to name a few! We started selling at a local market and then decided to come together as one and hey presto Cornish Fancies was born!

So the purpose of this blog is just to tell you all about how our little business and growing and our trial and tribulations along the way in the hope that someone out there may be interested!! In the meantime, have a look at our Facebook page and tell all of your friends in sunny Cornwall!!