Oh how I love a competition, especially if it's one that you can win Custom Crafted Kooky Bakes as a prize. I'm sure you would agree....

We thought it would be fun to have a little competition where you can have a chance to win a box of Kooky Bakes baked goodies.

The First Kompetition:

Just Guess how much Lurpak Butter Kooky Bakes uses in the baking leading up to Sunday UPMarket on the 13th of June.

How To Enter:

There are three ways to enter. The first way is to comment on this blog entry.  The second way is to follow @KookyBakes on Twitter and tweet your entry with the following hash tag #KookyKompetition. The final way is to become a 'Fan' for Kooky Bakes on Facebook.com/KookyBakes then leave your guess as a comment on the Kooky Kompetition status update.

Rules:

1. The competition os open to UK residents only.
2. Competition closes at 10am on Sunday the 13th of June
3. Please make your guess in metric measures.
4. You may enter once per entry method (Blog, Twitter, Facebook)
5. You must the closest with out going over the total amount of butter used.
6. If you enter via Twitter, you must be following @KookyBakes at the time of the announcement of the winner
7. If you enter via Facebook, you must be a fan of Kooky Bakes at the time of the announcement of the winner
8. In the event of multiple winning guesses, all the winning guesses will be entered in a draw.
9. Winner will be announced on Monday the 14th of June. 

Good luck and happy guessing!

The Kooky Bakes movement has been gaining momentum. I've had several requests to do bespoke baking over the past few weeks, which is great!  My partner in crime Ms Molly Bakes business has also hit the big time. Her lovely Cake Pops are now available in the Bakery department at Selfridges. Very impressive indeed! maybe one day my little kooky creations will be sold from the same country of one of the best department stores in the Uk.

With Molly bakes being absolutely busy with the Selfridges launch, she suggested that I do the Sunday UpMarket stall on my own while she took a little break after the Cake Pop Launch.

To be honest i was sh**ting myself with fear and excitement at the thought. how on earth would i be able to cope with baking enough Kooky delights to fill the stall for a full day of trading.  Not only did I want to do all the Kooky treats that I've been doing for the last few weeks, I needed to do some of the things to keep the Molly Bakes customers happy. It was an exciting challenge to find a way to stamp the Kooky Bakes ethos onto cupcakes, whoopie pies and brownies. Plus i had the added challenge of presenting the Kooky Bakes 'look' to the market stall.

I spent two weeks of baking, testing and sampling different recipes to find the perfect Kooky treatment for the solo ride of the stall.  So once my flavours and recipes were hammered down, it was all down to a 48 hour baking marathon.

When it came to the baking days... I felt like Santa Claus with my list. I kept checking it, making sure I was not missing a component or step. A bit anal, but it kept me focused with such a large task at hand.

I think I was a little over zealous when I planned what I'd like to achieve, that said only two things got axed due to time constraints and one item spontaneously was created for the menu on a whim.

Come Sunday morning I was nauseous with nerves, thankfully The Bear was with me to calm my nerves and be my little assistant on the day. I had a vision of how I wanted it to look, and i'm pleased that it turned out like I imagined. I got loads of compliments on the way the stall looked which made it worth while.

The biggest compliments came from the customers: some coming back for seconds: one couple from Paris begging me to come and sell in Paris because they dont have any thing this good (who knew?) and even a threat of a law-suit for baking criminally good treats! 

Black Forest Cupcakes	Victoria Sponge Whoopie Pies	S'mores Brownies	Turkish Delight & Malteser Cupcakes

At 5:30 pm when all the stock had gone, we packed up feeling completely shattered from a long couple of days of hard work.  At the same time I was filled with such excitement of doing it all again!  

I'll be doing it all again at the Brick Lane UPMarket this Sunday, the 13th of June.  Hope to see you all at the stall! 

 

This have been going really good at Kooky HQ. My partner in crime Ms. Molly Bakes were asked to pull up a pitch in the super successful Marylebone Cabbages & Frocks Market.  I have to be the first to admit that i was very excited about the market.  Who would not be? Spending a warm spring day in a leafy park selling baked goods... What could be more idyllic? 

The stall looked fantastic with the natural hedging as a back drop. It really set off the lovely creations of Molly Bakes & Kooky Bakes perfectly!  The customers were amazing! It was a lovely mix of American Ex-Pats, tourists and locals. I even had a twitter followers that came from Leeds & Cambridge to sample the Kooky Creations! 

Snickers Slice	Kookies	Kooky Slice	Junk Food Kookies

Over all it was a loverly day, with nice people that loved the Kooky & Molly Bakes treats.  Keep an eye out in the future whe we might pop up again in this West End institution.

Welcome to the first blog entry for Kooky Bakes. Such an incredible couple of months it has been since I got the bee in my bonnet to launch my Kooky Bakes. Back in 2005 I left my 'real' job to start a bakery business.  It's take quite a while to to get here today, but it has all been worth it.  I know with 99% certainty that if I launched my baked goods business it would have failed. Not because of the product, but more of my lack of business knowledge. 

So all of that aside, I'm finally doing it.  Looking around there are loads of baked goods companies some are fantastic, some are completely rubbish.  I'm striving to be the fantactic rather than the latter. 

The initial response to Kooky Bakes has been fantastic. I shared a stall with Molly Bakes at The Sunday UpMarket on Brick Lane over the Bank Holiday weekend.Kooky Bakes & Molly Bakes made the perfect combination for anyone looking for a tasty baked goods.  Almost like Girl Bakes and Boy Bakes on one stall.  Molly had her cupcakes, whoopie pies and cake pops along side our kookies.   The stall looked like a picnic in the woodlands complete with grass, trees and vintage tablecloths.

It was so much fun to see the faces of people after I had explained the Kooky Bakes range.  The Junk Food Kookie caused the most finger pointing and oooohing/ aaahhhing reaction. Surprisingly only 2 of the hundreds that sampled did not get the concept of Junk Food.  Not bad odds eh?

So what is next?  Well I'm going to continue popping up at Molly Bakes stall when sh'll have me LOL! I'm working on the logistics for the online shop and also working on expanding the Kooky Bakes range.

I should run now! Remember to keep it Kooky!