Fellow CC'ers,

There is still time to get your submission paperwork in for the 24th Annual San Diego Cake Club Confections on Parade Cake Show and Competition. March 24th and 25th, 2007.

Download your entry forms at www.sandiegocakeclub.com and mail them in with your entry fee (a mere 5 bucks per entry! & $2 for the kid's entry!). All Entry Forms must be received by the 16th of March.

Bring your sugar art on Friday March 23rd between 4pm and 9pm only. No entries will be accepted Saturday morning (March 24th), the day of the show and competition. Bring entries to LaJolla Village Square, 8657 LaJolla Village Dr, LaJolla CA 92037, this is the LaJolla Village Square Shopping Center (inside the theater end of the "mall"). Every level of cake decorator welcome to enter!

Free viewing, no fees to look. Show is starts 10 am Saturday March 24th and goes until 4 pm Sunday March 25th. Free sugarcraft demonstrations starting every hour . Saturday 11 am to 4 pm. Sunday Noon to 2 pm with raffles and awards ceremony to follow.

Weekend raffles includes KA mixer, Disneyland tickets, chocolate fountain, cake decorating supplies, gift baskets and much much more!

Visit Cupcake Corner and decorate your own confection!

All proceeds (100%) benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association

For more information, entry forms, and directions, visit our website:
www.SanDiegoCakeClub.com

See ya all there!!!!

anyone here going? Whose entering? whose coming to look?

I'm coming to look, but I don't know which day or time. I am looking forward to it, though!

I'll be there, probably both days, there are some demos I want to see.

I'll definitely be there to look and I'm really looking forward to it. I don't think I have time to prepare an entry this year. I'll have to plan better next year!

Is there a schedule of their demos??

TO ENTER: ARE THE CAKES OUT OF STYROFOAM? OR REAL CAKES

I'm entering.

siahsammi- you can use dummies as long as they are in a shape that can be duplicated with cake. Go to the website and check out the details.

I am definitely going at least one day! I can't wait!

Since all of you must be close to the San Diego area, are any of you familiar with commercial kitchen space for rent here? I am trying to get off the ground with my business, but have had no luck finding a licensed kitchen to work in that is semi-close to home.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

to TheCookieCuttery: What part of San Diego are you in? I believe there's a coffee shop that just went out of business; it may be avail to rent on a temp basis, or by the hour, until it's fully rented; I'm not sure what's in the kitchen. Krispy Kream donuts just shut down, too. The Waffle House serves breakfast/lunch, then closes at 2pm. Maybe they would rent space?? All of these are in the El Cajon area.

Thanks for the tips lsawyer. I am actually in north county in the Carmel Mountain/Sabre Springs area. Because I want to start out with my cookies part time I want something closer to home so it's more convenient. I might not have the luxury of being that spoiled though!

lsawyer, the demos are posted on the website www.sandiegocakeclub.com go to the shows page and then there should be a demo link in the middle of the text.

Thanks, sweetflowers! BTW, were you at the Lambeth class?

I was, I'm ashamed to say. I didn't do very well. But I saw your project. Your practice piping looked great. Did you finish your practice motif?

How did you know it was me????
I'm ashamed to say that I did not finish my homework. So typical for a teacher, right?? I have not had a free moment all week, and I don't expect a free moment until Sunday. I hope to work on it then. I can't attend Class 2 (out of town) but I hope to attend 3 and 4.

Trying to convince my husband to go with me. He wants to go motorcycle riding. hmmm which will I MAKE him choose..

I so wish I could go, but it's birthday weekend for my mom. She doesn't get a day, she gets the weekend! Maybe next year, is it always in March or do they change it around?

Always the same weekend, unless of course that coincides with Easter. Used to be the weekend of St Paddy's day, but they moved it because of mid year for ICES.

Hi all, I'm done with my first entry and working on my second. I drove my entry down from Washington and it did just perfectly. My sister talked me into doing another entry!!!!

I can't wait for the show. I get nervous every year.


Amy

I remember the feeling! It's nice now just to enjoy the show without the nerves. But I miss actually making the cakes, it's the only time you really stretch yourself and do what you want!

So how did it turn out? Remember, you have to bring it in on Friday! Also, did you register for 2 cakes? That deadline is past now

Don't forget to stop and say hi to me!

Hey Tami- Yes, my sister turned in both my forms with hers at the last meeting.

I'm satisfied with my cake. Not a perfectionist but pretty good I think for an amateur.


Amy

Well, my cake is done, and I'm still working on my cookies. Have a 400 mile drive, but at least I'm not coming down from Washington, althought thought about doing the shows up there and in Oregon. Anyone interested in meeting at the show Saturday morning?

Thank goodness I'm not entering cookies again this year. Yours are beautiful!! I've already taken 1st in that non-cake category. Time to move on up!!

Is this your first year? This is my fourth year. Last year I said I would never enter again. Yeah right!!


Can't wait to see your entry. BTW, Washington's next show will be the end of April in Ellensburg.


Amy

I'm going . . . but since I work graveyard shifts all weekend I can only make it to check out the entires.

My BF and I are going to head down to SD Sunday morning right after work . . . hopefully I won't spend all day drooling over cakes so I can get some sleep in the afternoon.

Good luck to everyone who entered!

Yep. . .

but I didn't enter anything.

Yeah, I entered the Spring basket. Pretty dissappointed how the judging in that category turned out! The judges were blind. Yes that was also my blue Australian stringwork cake!