La Creme Patisserie Blog

Patisserie students spend day talking cake with Sian.

Last Wednesday we had visitors from a catering college in Cheltenham who came to see Sian to talk about cake. They had found our details on the web and wanted to see first hand a commercial cake business in operation. They spent a couple of hours at our patisserie in Neath and then had the honour of being our first visitors to our new Centre of Excellence on the Baglan Energy Park.

Both Sian and myself are firmly committed to education and developing the links between education and industry. It was a pleasure to meet such a group of enthusiastic foodies and we look forward to continuing the link with the college in the years ahead.

 

We are constantly being asked to organise patisserie and catering courses and now that we have our new unit this is something we can factor into the business plan. The only problem is that Sian needs to sleep at some point during the 26 hour day but as I keep telling her - "things will get easier".

So watch this space for details of our soon to be announced food courses.

Birthday Cake for Sevenoaks in Kent

With over 4,000 visitors to our website each month, we have lots of enquires and orders for our cakes from people all across the UK. Today we posted a chocolate cake to Sevenoaks in Kent for a 40th Birthday Party.

Happy Birthday Gavin. We hope you enjoy !!!

 

If you would like to order a cake for a special occasion then please give us a ring at the patisserie on 01639 638574 or send an email [email protected].

Just remember to give us plenty of notice.

Cakes for The Towers Hotel, Swansea

One of this weeks cake creations was delivered to the Towers hotel in Swansea. Sian was asked to make a large 25 serving chocolate cheesecake and a 25 serving chocolate croquembouche for a function the Towers were catering in Cheltenham over the weekend.

Luckly help was on hand to assist Sian

 

 

This weekend we have been asked to make 120 individual passionfruit cheesecakes for a wedding at The Towers so hopefully this is the start of a long term relationship.

Thank you Bishop Vaughan School

As part of the Welsh Assembly's Dynamo project both Sian and myself go out into local schools and colleges and give talks about what it is like to run your own business. The idea is to plant the seed of thought in the young people's mind that one day they might want to work for themselves.

My advice is always the same. Find something you enjoy and you feel passionate about and go for it. Set your targets high, open your horizions and make it happen. Don't let people put you down - focus on your own talents and skills and believe in yourself.

I have probably done over 40 talks and this week I had the absolute pleasure in speaking at Bishop Vaughan Comprehensive in Swansea. The pupils, the staff and the project coordinator were all fantastic and I left the school in awe of how simple courtesy and good manners makes such a difference. It is all too easy these days to point the finger at young children and highlight their shortcomings but my overriding impression when I was driving away was that this this school and these children are doing it right. They have the X factor.

To be honest they made my day.

Ian