On Thursday 4^th March  – 7pm-9:30pm, the lipstick and curls girls return to bake-a-boo for a fabulous vintage styling event with a burlesque theme……..

‘Burlesque baby’  Burlesque style Hair & makeup evening with the lipstick & curls girls!

With Amanda & Natasha of

The talented twosome will teach you how to achieve the ultimate in golden age glamour, with a full vintage hair and makeup master class. Learn to create the classic burlesque look with sexy waves and a Betty Page fringe roll. Come alone or with a friend and the lipstick and curls girls will teach you everything you need to know to create this fabulous look with time to perfect this look to turn yourself into the ultimate burlesque babe! Learn from the girls and have fun practising the look whilst sipping on fizz and nibbling on mini cakes provided by bake-a-boo. It’s the ultimate girls night!

£45 per person – Includes use of the girls supplies during the workshop, a glass of fizz with nibbles & mini cakes

You must pre-book your place for this event. Call us on to book your place.

Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea

Treat your mum to a special tea at bake-a-boo on Mother’s Day & show her how much she means to you with yummy cakes & tea served in vintage tea cups, she will simply adore it!

The Mother’s Day tea menu is £17.50 per person & includes:

A selection of finger sandwiches

Scones with jam and fresh cream

Lemon cupcakes topped with sugar flowers

Teapot shaped vanilla biscuits

Fruit tea bread slices

Chocolate dipped strawberries

Mini chocolate brownies

Served with unlimited tea of your choice

All served on tiered cake stands with fresh flowers within the tiers with vintage china

scattered rose petals & hearts on the table and a refreshing pot of tea!

Tea is served between 12:30pm & 4:30pm on Mother’s Day the 14^th March

We also offer the tea on Saturday 13^th March.

Due to the popularity of this tea Tables are limited to 1.5 hours on Mothering Sunday.

Mother’s Day Special Breakfast

Start Mother’s Day off showing your mum how much you love her with a special breakfast at bake-a-boo. This year we will also be opening early on Mother’s day at 11am and we are offering a special Mother’s Day breakfast, which must also be pre-booked.

The Mother’s Day breakfast menu is £15 per person & includes:

Smoked salmon & cream cheese bagels

mini croissants and pastries

bitesize blueberry muffins

granola served with yogurt and honey

fresh fruit salad

Served with orange juice, tea or coffee

All served on vintage china. Your table will be decorated with hearts confetti, rose petals and fresh flowers

bake-a-boo’s Mother’s Day breakfast is served between 11am & 12:30pm on Mother’s Day 14^th March only.

Both the tea and the breakfast must be booked a minimum 48 hours in advance and a 50% deposit must be paid upon booking – please call – we can take your card payments over the phone.

In the week leading up to Mothering Sunday, ‘create & do’ at bake-a-boo hosts two workshops in conjunction with some special individuals. Join in the workshops to ‘create’ something for your mum, or participate with her as part of your Mother’s Day celebrations….or you just come a long and have fun for the hell of it!

Saturday 13th March – 9:30am-11:30am

Mother’s Day flower arranging workshop

With Liz Inigo Jones of

Isn’t your mum worth a few hours of your time creating a special bouquet? She will love the personal touch and you will get to eat cake and have fun! Attend this workshop alone to create a wonderful surprise bouquet, or why not attend the workshop with your Mother, create beautiful flowers together and make it part of your Mother’s Day celebration?

Includes use of all tools and materials, flowers to take home & tea/coffee with cake

£45 per person

Thursday 11th February – 6:45pm-9:30pm

’’Hollywood Glamour’

Mother’s Day Special hair & makeup evening with the lipstick & curls girls!

With Amanda & Natasha of

The talented twosome will teach you how to achieve the ultimate in golden age glamour, with a full vintage hair and makeup master class. Learn to create the classic Hollywood starlet look, with a simple glamorous up do. This course should be booked in pairs of two, so you can get the most out of the workshop by being able to practice on each other and help each other throughout the workshop. Perhaps attend the workshop with your Mother as part of your Mother’s Day celebrations?

Includes use of the girls supplies during the workshop, a glass of fizz with nibbles & mini cakes

£45 per person

Places are limited. Workshops must be paid in full upon booking. Please call us on 020 7435 1666 to book your place

PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE WORKSHOPS CAN BE BOOKED TOTALLY UNRELATED TO MOTHER’S DAY, YOU CAN JUST ATTEND THE WORKSHOP TO LEARN THESE SKILLS FOR FUN!

Ok, I’m just so excited about this – in conjunction with the release of the Tim Burton film Alice in Wonderland – we are hosting a mad hatters tea party on Sunday the 7th March. We have teamed up with Vicky Rowe of (by the way I actually do think that she is perhaps one of the most fabulous people in the world) and together we will host the tea party. bake-a-boo will be decked out with Alice in Wonderland theme decorations and the event starts at 12pm and Vicky will hold a fascinator making workshop. She will bring all her kit, tools and materials and you will be able to create your own fascinator, using vintage goodies and cruelty free feathers. You will complete  your fabulous hat creation to take home with you, but not before wearing it to enjoy a full afternoon tea that will follow, to make it a true mad hatters tea party. bake-a-boo will serve up a Alice in Wonderland themed full afternoon tea for you to enjoy and tea will be unlimited throughout the day.

Sunday 7th March 12pm-4pm

This event includes the full afternoon tea, the fascinator workshop and all materials.

£60 per person

(you can’t even buy a decent fascinator for that – and this will be your own bespoke creation!)

Afternoon tea menu includes;

A selection of finger sandwiches

Mini scones with jam and cream

‘eat me’, ‘take one’ and card sign topped cupcakes

Teapot and bunny shaped biscuits

Chocolate dipped strawberries

Heart topped jam tarts

Served with unlimited tea and water

Please call bake-a-boo on to book your place at the mad hatters tea party. Spaces are limited and full payment must be taken when you book your place.

See you there xxx

I’m so pleased to announce that we have teamed up with the lovely Claire and Bee from make.do.mend to host knitting, sewing and crochet workshops at bake-a-boo, for both adults and children.

Our first workshop will be for the children, during half term next week, see our previous post for all the details.

Our first two adult workshops have now been confirmed and we hope that you will enjoy learning from these fabulous ladies, get cosy and enjoy yummy tea and cakes from us. We hope you can also meet some great new people with similar interests.

 

Knitting for Beginners 2 part course

Sunday 21st & 28th February 10am-12.30pm  

The aims of the class are teach the basics of knitting.

 

 Lesson one: The course will offer guidance and worksheets on stitch techniques; knit, purl, cast on, cast off.

Students will begin a simple flower to work on during the week

Lesson two: Students will continue work on their flower, learning the techniques of shaping and striping.

 

Make.Do.Mend. will supply needles and yarn for each participant to take away and continue practice and to finish a simple flower corsage.

 

£45 per person for 2x 2.5 hour course, including materials and tea/coffee and cakes

Sewing for Beginners 2 part course

Monday 22nd Feb & 1st March 7pm-9.30pm

A chance to learn new skills and brush up on some long-forgotten ones.  During the class you will learn basic sewing techniques including back stitch, running stitch, simple heming and oversewing.  Once these are mastered you will be able to use patterns provided to make some beautiful corsages in a variety of fabrics.  If there is enough time there will be an opportunity to make a simple button-closure purse which you can embroider with the stitches you have learnt.

 Make.Do.Mend. will supply needles, thread, fabric and embellishments for each participant to take away and continue practice and to finish simple flower corsages.

 

 £45 per person for 2x 2.5 hour course, including materials and tea/coffee and cakes

We have three fun workshops for the children this half term. Let the children come and be creative with us. The children will also receive refreshments during the workshop. Please call us to book your place on one of the following workshops. Call , full payment will be required upon booking.

Wednesday 17^th February  – 10am-12am

Half term Parent & child flower arranging workshop

With Liz Inigo Jones of blue sky flowers

Our second Flower Workshop is aimed at parents and kids during half term who want to have fun and create something for home or as a gift. Mum or Dad can make a hand tied posy whilst the little ones pot up a fragrant flower. Enjoy a cup of tea and a piece of cake whilst watching the young budding gardeners!

£45 per parent/child combo – All materials and tools will be supplied for the workshop, as well as refreshments for parent & child

Thursday 18^th February  – 2pm-3.30pm

Half term children’s knitting workshop (ages 8+)

With Claire of ‘make do mend

For children only. Learn the basics of knitting; casting on, knit and casting off. If you know how to knit already, come along to make a toy! We will be aiming to make a little wonky creature and you can play with yarn, buttons and felt to create your own mini alien!

£15 per child – All materials and tools will be supplied for the workshop, as well as a sandwich, mini cake & drink

 Friday 19^th February – 2pm-3pm

Half term children’s cupcake decorating workshop (ages 4-10)

With Xanthe

For children only. Enjoy a laid back afternoon getting messy with icing and sprinkles, every child will get two cupcakes to decorate with a range of icing colours and sprinkles. They will then decorate a cake box with glitter, stickers and sequins to take their cakes home.

£10 per child – All materials and tools will be supplied for the workshop, as well as a sandwich, mini cake & drink

Just wanted to tell you about wonderful Liz from blue sky flowers. We have collaborated with Liz in a series of workshops as part of ‘create & do’ at bake-a-boo, where she will teach you some of her floral secrets and skills. Liz will source beautiful flowers for you to work with and show you how to create beautiful arrangements. Our first workshop with Liz is on the 10th February from 9:30am-11:30am. This workshop has a Valentine’s theme where you will create a romantic hand tied bouquet, which Liz assures me will last until Valentines day, so you could give it to your loved one, or use it as a centre piece for a Valentine’s meal at home, or just keep it for yourself! Liz will also be running workshops on the following dates:

Wednesday 17^th February  – 10am-12pm – Half term Parent & child flower arranging workshop

Our second Flower Workshop is aimed at parents and kids during half term who want to have fun and create something for home or as a gift. Mum or Dad can make a hand tied posy whilst the little ones pot up a fragrant flower. Enjoy a cup of tea and a piece of cake whilst watching the young budding gardeners!

Saturday 13^th March  – 10am-12pm - Mother’s day flower arranging workshop

Isn’t your mum worth a few hours of your time creating a special bouquet? She will love the personal touch and you will get to eat cake and have fun! Attend this workshop alone to create a wonderful surprise workshop, or why not attend the workshop with your Mother and make it part of your Mother’s Day celebration?

Wednesday 31 March 9:30am-11:30am – Easter Flower Workshop

Come a make a floral display for your Easter table or create a small gift for visiting guests. Just bring your green fingers, everything else will be provided including tea and cake.

All workshops, include use of all materials, flowers and tea or coffee and cakes during the workshop.

All workshops are £45 per person (the £45 paid for the parent child workshop includes parent and child)

please call to book your place, full payment will be required upon booking.

Click on the poster to enlarge to see all our up and coming dates with at bake-a-boo. It’s a fabulously lady-like affair, and so much fun! Make up and hair, mixed with tea, Fizz and cakes – what more could a girl want? x

create & do at bake-a-boo

Valentine’s Week Workshops

In the week leading up to Valentines, bake-a-boo launches ‘create & do’ a series of creative workshops hosted by bake-a-boo in conjunctionwith some special individuals. We launch ‘create & do’ with two Valentine’s related workshops during the week to help get you in the mood for the big day.

Wednesday 10th February  – 9:30am-11:30am

‘Love is in Bloom’

Valentine’s flower arranging workshop

With Liz Inigo Jones of

If you want to give your loved one something truly personal & unique this February, or make something special for yourself, come and make your own gift wrapped bouquet at the first of our series of our Flower Workshops. Have a cup of tea, a piece of cake & take home your creation for Valentine’s Day.

Includes use of all tools and materials, flowers to take home & tea/coffee with cake

£45 per person

Thursday 11th February  – 6:45pm-9:30pm

‘Goodnight Sweetheart’

1940’s hair & makeup evening with the lipstick & curls girls!

With Amanda & Natasha of

This workshop should be booked in pairs of two, so you can get the most out of the workshop by being able to practice on & help each other throughout. Amanda & Natasha are experienced make up artists, specialising in make up & hairstyles from this era. They will start by giving you a presentation about the styles of the era & then demonstrate techniques & classic 40s styles, like curls and victory curls you will then be able to use their make up & tools, to learn to create the looks yourself. Go home with the perfect romantic look perfected for your Valentine’s night out!

Includes use of the girls supplies during the workshop, a glass of fizz with nibbles & mini cakes

£45 per person

Places are limited. Workshops must be paid in full upon booking. Please call us on to book your place

As per our last post, you can order Valentine’s treats from us to share with your loved one at home. But we are also inviting you to spend time at bake-a-boo on the day. We have ‘loved up’ our afternoon tea for the day, and we will also be opening early on Valentine’s Day and offering a special romantic breakfast. Both the tea and the breakfast  must be pre-booked, we are taking bookings now and spaces are limited. Please see all details below……

Valentine’sAfternoon Tea

Treat your loved one to our special ‘loved up’ afternoon tea this Valentines day.

The Valentine’s afternoon tea menu is £18 per person and includes
A selection of finger sandwiches
Scones with jam and cream
heart topped cupcakes
mini brownies
heart topped jam tarts
heart and cherub shaped biscuits
chocolate dipped strawberries
Valentine sweeties
unlimited tea of your choice
Your table will be decorated with hearts confetti, red roses and candles

bake-a-boo’s Valentine’s tea is served between 12pm and 4:30pm on Valentine’s day

Valentine’s Special Breakfast

Start your Valentine’s off in a romantic way with a special breakfast at bake-a-boo.
This year we will also be opening early on Valentines day at 10am
and we are offering a special Valentine’s breakfast, which must also be pre-booked.

The Valentine’s breakfast menu is £15 per person and includes:
Smoked salmon & cream cheese bagels
mini croissants and pastries
bitesize blueberry muffins
granola served with yogurt and honey
fresh fruit salad
served with orange juice, tea or coffee
Your table will be decorated with hearts confetti, red roses and candles

bake-a-boo’s Valentine’s breakfast is served between 10am & 12:30pm on Valentines Day

The Valentine’s afternoon tea and breakfast menus must be pre-booked a minimum of 48 hours prior to your booking and a 50% deposit will be required. Due to the popularity of our tea and breafast menus tables will be limited to 1.5 hour time slots

PLEASE NOTE WE CAN PREPARE YOU A ‘LOVE BOX’ OF THE FOLLOWING MENUS FOR YOU TO CREATE THE BREAKFAST OR TEA AT HOME – ADVANCED BOOKING IS STILL REQUIRED.

Please find our offerings for Valentine’s Day. We already have lots of gifts and edible gifts like sweetie and fudge jars and gift bags available to buy in the shop, we will also have a large selection of Valentine’s treats to purchase from the shop on the 13th and 14th February, but here’s a list if you would like to order something special for your loved one this Valentines Day x

Valentines Treats to order….

Most popular

Gift wrapped strawberry & raspberry chocolate heart – £22

Heart shaped chocolate cake, topped with succulent strawberries & raspberries, gift wrapped with cellophane and ribbons

Gift wrapped personalised heart cake - £22

Available in chocolate or vanilla, a heart shaped cake with your message to your loved one written – for example ‘I love you Boo’, gift wrapped with cellophane and ribbons

Special Heart cupcake gift box filled with 12 valentine cupcakes = £24

Delicious Valentine cupcakes, presented in a 12 cupcake box covered in a hearts design, and tied with red and pink ribbons. Choose the following script to be written across some of the cupcakes in your box. ‘Be Mine’ or ‘I love you’

I LOVE YOU Fairy cake box – £14

Box of 9 fairy cakes with ‘I LOVE YOU’ written across the centre row & the remaining 6 with heart designs, gift wrapped with cellophane and ribbons

Love Cupcakes? Boxes of 4 or 9 of the following CUPCAKES……..

Valentines fairy cakes

(mixed valentines designs) –4 box = £6, 9 box = £13.50

Message cupcakes

(cupcakes iced with personality messages) -

‘floozie’, ‘Lover’, ‘Sexy’, ‘Cutie’, ‘Kiss me’, ‘Honey’, ‘Darling’, ‘Sweetie’, ‘Angel’

4 box = £6.50, 9 box = £14

Chocolate cupcakes

(decorated in valentines theme) – – 4 box = £6.50, 9 box = £14

Strawberry cupcakes

topped with fresh succulent strawberries and edible glitter – 4 box = £6.50, 9 box = £14

All the above cake boxes are gift wrapped with cellophane and ribbons

Valentines gifts for special diets

Wheat, gluten & dairy free passion fruit cake

Moist and tangy passion fruit cake and topped with red and pink hearts – £20

Wheat, gluten & dairy free Vanilla valentines hearts cupcakes

(topped with coloured hearts and sparkle sprinkles) – 4 box = £6.50, 9 box = £14

Wheat, gluten & dairy free ‘Roxy’ Raspberry cupcakes

A bake-a-boo favourite – Raspberry flavoured cupcakes with icing made with raspberry juice and topped with fresh raspberries and hearts  - 4 box = £6.50, 9 box = £14

Wheat, gluten & dairy free ‘Scarlet’ Strawberry cupcakes

Strawberry flavoured cupcakes with icing made with Strawberry icing and topped with a succulent strawberry – 4 box = £6.50, 9 box = £14

Dairy & Egg free Vegan Chocolate heart cupcakes

bake-a-boo’s popular vegan chocolate cupcakes get a re-vamp for valentines, topped with chocolate icing and a heart – 4 box – £7, 9 box = £15

All the above cake boxes are gift wrapped with cellophane and ribbons

All Valentine’s order’s must be placed by Thursday 11th February 2010, and must be collected from our tea room on the 13th or 14th February, please specify your desired collection date and time when ordering.

This week – 25th-29th January 2010, it’s food allergy and intolerance week. It seems the perfect time to tell you, for those who don’t know, that we offer a wide range of cakes suitable for those with food allergies and intolerances. We specialise in gluten free and dairy free cakes, and we have a selection on offer daily, we also make birthday cakes and cupcakes and slices to order for any special occassions you may have, or just to enjoy at home. We also offer a gluten and dairy free alternative to our traditional afternoon tea at bake-a-boo, which must be booked in advance.
In addition to the gluten and dairy free cakes, we also offer egg free and sugar free cakes as well. As I am gluten and dairy intolerant, I know how hard it can be to find foods which you can enjoy, and how it is especially hard to eat out. When I created bake-a-boo I wanted to create a place where there would be something for everyone, and I hope most food intolerances are covered cake wise, so that most people can find something to eat safely at bake-a-boo. Unfortunately as we do cook with nuts in our kitchen, we cannot offer nut free, but we hope to make life more enjoyable for the time that you are with us, for the gluten, dairy, egg and sugar free-er’s amongst us!
Happy cake eating to those with food allergies and intolerances this week x

Gluten & dairy free lemon cupcake pictured above

Further to my last post about the photographic exhibition at bake-a-boo from the 24th February, documenting the glamorous life of my Grandfather Ballard Berkeley, I wanted to share this photograph (not part of the exhibition) with you of my Grandfather and I in his garden when I was very little.

‘Years of Romance’ – a photographic tribute to a glamorous life – 24th Feb-8th March 2010

From the 24th of February until the 8th of march, at bake-a-boo we will be hosting an exhibition ‘Years of Romance’ – a photographic tribute to a glamorous life. A collection of remastered and digitally enhanced photographs taken from the glamorous life of the actor Ballard Berkeley. The images cover the period 1920-1939 and include publicity photographs for the theatre and cinema. Hosting this exhibition is particulary special to me as Ballard Berkeley was my grandfather. My father recently dug out several old photographs of Ballard for a documentary ‘Fawtly Towers re-opened’ which aired in 2009. He then digitally enhanced and restored several of the photographs and has now compiled this exhibition. Seeing these photographs has allowed me to learn so much about my grandfather’s acting career and life, as I was very young when he died and I only really knew him as ‘the major’ in Fawtly Towers, it has been lovely to experience some of his other chararcters through these photographs. I hope that you will enjoy the photographs in the shop during this time.

Sorry for the utter silence in blogland lately – sadly in November we got broken into at the shop and our camera was stolen, so we haven’t been able to take any pictures to keep you up to date with our goings-on, so I have been quiet – anyway -I’m back, new camera and back in action, we have so much going on in the next few months that I have so much to report, so it’s good to be back.
Anyway here’s some new pics from the weekend – we celebrated Ruth’s hen party on Sunday and here’s some pictures of her afternoon tea party, before the hens arrived to devour the lot. They had full afternoon tea and rounded off the afternoon decorating cupcakes. Congratulations Ruth x