The Splat Cooking Blog

We have a couple of spaces available on the Mother’s Day Cupcake Bouquet workshop tomorrow, get in quickly

Our lovely Frog Prince cutter is ideal for fans of The Princess and The Frog film, check out the website to buy one.

The Princess and The Frog Cookie Cutter

I’ve spent the past 2 days making a cupcake bouquet for a TV production company in the hope that they’ll commission me to make them for the show, Emma delivered it yesterday and here’s the finished result.  Hope they like it

For the past few years, probably about 4 years, we’ve been toying with the idea of setting up Splat Cooking as party plan.  When I first launched I used to go round to friends houses armed with a stack of homemade biscuits and copious amounts of icing and sprinkles to get them to decorate biscuits with the concept that they’d buy stuff too and I’d promote the workshops and parties.  It worked to a certain degree but I found that it was costing me more in icing and sprinkles than I was making, especially when a lot of guests took the mickey with  how many biscuits they iced.  Really down to bad planning on my behalf, should  have rationed them!

With the franchises launched we’ve taken another look at this as it’s the perfect model to promote the parties and workshops for new franchisees and also gives them the opportunity to sell stuff and get a foot in the door of possible schools and toddler groups.

So I did one last night and this morning.  I made cupcakes and iced them and then had the ladies making sugarpaste roses which they put on top of a cake and could either eat there and then or take home with them – hah, rationing in progress, one cake each!  It worked a treat, last night there were only 3 ladies that I know, the majority had been told by word of mouth so immediately I have 8 new customers, two of them are on the PTA of their schools and are going back to discuss having cooking clubs, at least 4 of the ladies want cupcake coffee mornings, one lady is involved with three toddler groups and took away our cards to give out at these and talk to the playgroup leaders about me or one of the team coming in to do some cooking with the children and I’ve had at least 3 workshop bookings.  All in all, a huge success.

If anyone would like a cupcake coffee morning and you’re in Bucknghamshire then call me in the office to arrange on 0870 766 8290, if you fancy running these yourself, have a school you think would like a cooking club or even feel that you’d like to work for us running cooking parties or classes then call us too, any potential franchisees reading this – IT WORKS.

Sid has slept through until 6.25am the past two mornings, bless him, he’s a feisty little puppy.  Loves Jasper to bits and constantly wants to play with him, jasper is very much the top dog and that’s how it should be but when Jasper ignores Sid, Sid jumps up after Jasper’s tail and bites his bum, poor love, Jasper takes all in his stride and starts playing again.  I’ve just split them up for a sleep and they’re spark out.  This is sooo like having a new baby, Sid gives amazing puppy cuddles.