The Boutique Bakery

Quick Update Sept 25th

Meabh — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:31:13 +0000

Hi everyone, its been very quiet on the blog front lately – I had a silly accident and was out of action for a while, but hopefully back on track again now. The bad news is that as a volunteer project, the book couldn’t go ahead in time for Christmas, which I am personally very disappointed about, it just couldn’t be helped. We were very stuck for time as it was. We still fully intend to complete the project, will just take a little longer than originally planned. So stick with us and hopefully we’ll have some news soon

Meabh

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Lemon Squares

Meabh — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:37:44 +0000

Barbara Dobson’s Lemon Squares from our very first photo shoot!

We learned some very valuable things about food photography this evening, but for a first attempt I dont think its half bad…

and the lemon squares tasted yum too

Lemon Squares

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we have lift off!

Meabh — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:58:38 +0000

Its been a busy busy week with the planning of the cookbook. We are finalising the recipe list and costing it all up. When I have my little day dreams of owning my own bakery it never involves hundreds of word documents and excel spreadsheets, I can tell you!

This week I met with some of the customers of Focus Ireland’s cookery courses. We are planning to run two baking workshops over the month of August, where we will bake the recipes they have chosen and take lots of photos to include in the book. I think its really important to showcase all the new skills they have learned throughout their course.

This evening is the first test run of the photographer (my mate Niall!). I am going to bake some tasty treats and we will play around with props and lighting to see what works. A bit of sunshine would really help right now

Dylan is working hard on some cool graphics and artwork, and tomorrow we should have all the boring paperwork out of the way and get down to some serious baking, the best bit! There are loads of lovely yummy cakes, and some tasty savouries too – I’m sure I will get some willing tasters on board….

We will post up some photos of the first dish later tonight hopefully so stay tuned

Love

Meabh xx

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[New Post] Focus Ireland Baking Book

Meabh — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:04:24 +0000

Hello and welcome to my new blog!

Recently some friends of mine were undertaking a big fundraising effort to help Irish charity Focus Ireland, by doing the ‘Four Peaks Challenge’ – climbing the 4 highest mountains in Ireland in 72 hours! They had to do some mega fundraising for the challenge, and while having a brain storming session (in the pub ) we came up with the idea of producing a baking book.

Having been a keen baker and learning to decorate cakes over the last few years, I love the feeling of accomplishment of making something from scratch. So I wanted to produce a book that will benefit Focus Ireland’s work but also help those of you out there who might be put off by the thoughts of baking, to learn how easy and simple it can be!

We have been working on the idea for the last few months and recently ran a competition on Focus Ireland’s Facebook page to select some of the recipes for the book. The response was brilliant and we are now working hard on collating the recipes, and getting ready to start producing and photographing the recipes for the final product.

I hope to use this blog to keep you updated on how its all going!

Meabh

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