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| Calm before the cakey storm! |
We've hosted some unusual events at The Real Mary King's Close before, but we never thought that cake would be a major feature for us to theme an event!
How wrong were we?! Last night we welcomed the fantastic Edinburgh Cake Ladies to The Close for a belated Halloween celebration of cake and savoury goodness! The talent was endless with some of the most elaborate cakes we have ever seen.
Entertainment was provided by Elliot Bibby, a local young magician who entertained with his feats of magic and mystery.
Between munching cakes and drinking tea, the Cake Ladies (and the younger guests) explored The Close, hearing tales of young Annie and Andrew Chesney's famous thunderbox.
Local charity, and nominated charity of the Edinburgh Cake Ladies, Its Good to Give raised £250 from the nights precedings which made us all feel that we were worthy of enjoying the delicious baking!
As one of our tour guides said after the event: "When I heard the Cake Ladies were visiting, I expected a group of ladies from the WI, complete with their old-school doilies. This was so much more - AMAZING!!" Hear, hear and thank you to them all for visiting....and being such wonderful bakers!
Thank you also to Alex Hewitt for taking the photos in the challenging, sorry, atmospheric light of the Close!!!
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| Our tour guides view the delicious spread! |
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| One particularly talented Cake Lady Lou recreated the Close in cakey form! It tasted as good as it looked! |
The staff are currently enjoying some delicious leftovers! Yum!
ReplyDeleteWas a quite different event - amazing, spooky (most definitely!), friendly and TASTY. We were well looked after by the Real Mary Kings Close staff and the cake ladies outshone themselves with their cakey creations. Cake bliss.
ReplyDeleteIn a weird but good weird setting.
As founder of It's Good 2 Give I want to say thanks to all who made this occasion so splendid.