We are heading to our first wedding fair of the Autumn in the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa in Sligo.
It will take place on Sunday 12th September from 2pm to 6pm.

For more information contace Denise at the Radisson Blu.

Hope to see you there.

Thanks Tracy & John for the lovely card and photo of their special cake designed with Tracy for their wedding day in Lough Rynn April 17th last.

Glad you and your friends loved it.   We enjoyed creating it with you.

Best wishes to you both.

We added a new flavour to our selection of cupcakes. These are our strawberry rose cupcakes.

They are pink inside with a strawberry flavour.

Great idea for a unique christening gift or to bring to a summer evenings bbq.

Other flavours are chocolate, carrot, vanilla, coffee and lemon.

Cannaboe Confectionery created this tower of cakes for a recent wedding.

Each tier consisted of two cakes iced together.

Top two cakes in the first tier were 8″ maderias, second tier was also two 10″ maderias while the next was made up of two 12″ fruit cakes and the bottom two 14″ fruit cakes.

We decided to bring the cake in two parts because the bottom 2 tiers alone were very heavy.

We assembled the cake at the venue and added 60 handmade roses to finish it.

Its nearly that time of year again.The hunt is on for the white dress or the new suit for their First Holy Communion.

Whether you are the mum or dad, godmother, godfather, aunty or uncle,

a Cannaboe Communion cake will make a lovely gift for the day.

Cannaboe Communion cakes can be made from chocolate, maderia, chocolate biscuit or carrot cakes.

The little prayer book and the rosary beads are all made from sugarpaste and are edible.

The prayer book can be lifted off the cake and put away as a momento of the special day.

Book your cake with Sharon at 0719644778, email us at info@cacamilis.com or just book by leaving a comment and we will get back to you.

We also make chocolate lollipops for First Holy Communion. Check out our online shop for further information.

Going by last years, this wedding fair is usually very busy and with over 60 stands it should have everything the bride or groom would need under one roof.

There will be a fashion show with Catwalk Model Agency at 5pm.

We will have a display of a new selection of our wedding cakes and also some little tasters of carrot, chocolate and chocolate biscuit cake.

Looking forward to meeting you there.

We just had 23 4th year LCVP students from Bailieboro Community School accompanied by their guidance counsellor, Christine McNamee, on a visit to our premises on a fact finding mission.

Our little showroom was packed to capcity.  The students had a list of questions about our business which I tried to answer for them.

I gave them a little of the sugarpaste to taste and they seemed to like it. I was finishing a handbag cake before they arrived so they got a look at that and I had a Bailieboro Community School jersey cake made for them as a surprise.

They had their own built in photographer, Glebe, who took lots of photos which I hope he will send on to me. They stayed about an hour and hopefully have enough information for their project.

It seems the current trend for cupcakes as weddings is as strong as ever.   

After attending the Radisson Blue Sligo Wedding Fair yesterday Sunday 17th Jan 2010 I noticed that the trend for cupcakes is still there and even on the increase.  We have a huge amount of interest in our stand and with the volume of couples at the fair it was hard to give everyone the time they needed.

I directed most of the bride and grooms to our website which I hope is helpful to them.

Thanks to everyone stopped and chatted, hopefully we will talk again in the near future.  Thanks also everyone who booked on the day and will receive a 10% discount off their wedding cake.

Our next wedding fair is in Kilronan Castle on Sunday 28th February next. 

Here is a link to our cupcake set on Flickr

Contact details for the college :

Margaret Tiernan

B.A., H.Dip., M.A.

Director of Adult EducationSchool of Lifelong Learning

Cavan Institute

Cathedral Road, Cavan

Telephone: (049) 4332633

Facsimile: (049) 4361933

E-mail: adulted@cavaninstitute.ie

www.cavaninstitute.ie

Looking forward to the next 8 weeks.  I just hope the weather improves.

Thanks Maria for doing the interview and also thanks to Jack who took the photos. 

Next week in the Journal there will be a Step by Step guide to covering and decorating your own Christmas Cake.

Breaffy House Hotel Castlebar, Co. Mayo - Sunday 27th December 2009 from 3pm-7pm with a Fashion Show at 4pm.

Radisson Blu Farnham Estate, Cavan – Sunday 3rd January, 2010 from 2pm – 6pm.

Slieve Russell Hotel, Ballyconnell, Co. Cavan – Sunday 10th January, 2010.

Radisson Blu Hotel, Rosses Point, Sligo – Sunday 17th January 2010.

Kilronan Castle, Ballyfarnon, Co. Roscommon – Sunday 28th February 2010.

I will keep you posted if there are any more.

In the last two weeks we made sugarpaste novelty animals and sugarpaste flowers.  The students brought in their own cakes tonight and created flowers and novelties for them.

Here are a few of their cakes from tonight.

Next week we are getting into the Christmas spirit, covering our fruit cakes with almond paste and making some novelty Christmas cake toppers.

Originally uploaded by cacamilis

This Hollywood themed birthday cake for Amanda is our most viewed cake since I started putting them up on Flickr.

It had the Hollywood sign on the side also.

I enjoyed making this one.

We made some Halloween cupcakes especially for the occasion.

This is a sugarpaste ghost being made step by step. 

Using the sugarpaste create a short column which will be the body of the ghost.

Pinch the sides of the body to make arms.

Roll out a round thin piece of white sugarpaste and cover the body fully. 

Using a toothpick dipped in black sugarpaste colour, dot two eyes to finish.

Now place your ghost on your covered Halloween cake and write your message.

It is from 7pm to 9pm and will teach you how work with sugarpaste, royal icing, almond paste and piping.  This course will equip you with the skills to produce a celebration cake with a difference.

Contact name for the course is Margaret Tiernan and telephone number is 049 4332633.

Aisling and the students arrived by bus after an hour and a half journey.    I gave them a brief outline about the type of products we make and showed them our production kitchen.

I made a little teddy bear and a baby from sugarpaste which they took back with them.  They were extremely interested in the chocolate machine which was running while they were here.

After answering the questions they had for me and standing for a photo, they headed back to Bailieborough.

Hope you all enjoyed it. 

Lough Rynn Castle has confirmed the couple will celebrate their wedding at the former home of Lord Leitrim in the beautifully restored castle hotel and grounds.

To read more click on Leitrim Observer.

Here are a couple of the cakes we had on display.

The first is Sunday 6th September 2009 at the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa in Rosses Point in Sligo.  This wedding fair is from 2pm – 6pm.

The following weekend on Sunday 13th September 2009 the Lough Rynn Castle Wedding Fair takes place and is also from 2pm – 6pm.

We are looking forward to both wedding fairs where we will enjoy meeting the couples and catching up with all the other suppliers after a busy summer.  Did I say summer!!