Charly's Bakery

So today, Friday 15th June, Charlys Bakery had our best sales EVER ! We had so many orders for Chocolate cakes and cheesecakes, and birthday cakes, that we had to stack the boxes on the counters and alll over the bakery, so many orders that there was no room for customers to sit at the tables and eat, cause there were cakes EVERYWHERE. Wow- how amazing that in the middle of rainy June, when business is supposed to be quiet, we break all records.
And most wonderful of all was seeing all the happy faces as our customers collected their cakes. We really have the best job in the world- making cake for peoples happy occassions. How many other businesses have customers just breaking into smiles when they walk into their shop. So many people each day take photos of our shop and our cupcakes, cause they have never seen anything like it before. It makes me really happy to come to work each day.

So today we baked the most amazing giant gold Bar chocolate cake to celebrate Louis Karoll architects 55th birthday year in business. Congratulations to Louis Karol and all who work there for this amazing achievement

Each year, Charly’s bakery closes for the July school holidays so all of us can go on leave together with our kids. This year our break starts on the 1st July and we re-open on the 23rd July. You can place your orders via email, for our kids birthday cakes, quiches, wedding cakes, birthday cakes and cupcakes. Our cake and quiche price lists are downloadable on our website- front page under the skpe logo. We will answer your emails to confirm, as soon as we are back from our trip to Zanzibar- Yay for beautiful sunny beaches. We can’t wait to relax. It’s been the most amazing year for us at Charly’s Bakery. We have grown so much- we are officailly twice as busy now as we were one year ago, so thanks to all of you for the Mucking afazing support.
Lots of love and we’ll miss you

So this week, Drum magazine did the most amazing story on Alex- our daughter, manager and creative genius. Three pages of photos about her life, hopes, dreams and how much she loves being a South African, Capetonian woman who spends her days decorating endless beautiful, chocolate, birthday cakes at Charly’s Bakery.
We’re so proud of you Alexi.

Hellooo…

In December 2005 we got a phonecall from “Let’s Fix it” (A program on E-TV which makes dreams come true for people who can’t afford to make their own dreams come true) to ask us if we would like to sponsor a christmas party for 30 pensioners in Athlone- our response “ABSOLUTELY!”
So we called up a friend who owns a decor company (Nadine from Theme Creations 0828550918) to ask if she would like to come onboard and do the decor for the party- her response “ABSOLUTELY!”
And so it happened- we did a selection of chocolate cupcakes with each pensioners name piped on each cupcake, a selection of bright red vanilla petit fours with gold stars and christmas trees piped on each one, Wicked chocolate cake “Flower Pots” each planted with a red rose and touched with our edible gold paint, christmas tree shaped cookies, homemade sweeti-pies painted with gold edible paint and wicked chocolate cake covered in white icing with red roses in the centre. Nadine and her team did an unbelievable job with the decor using red roses, gold base plates, gold organza saches at the back of each chair, christmas crackers and LOADSSSS more.
The party was an unbelievable hit, but it didn’t end there…
Next up was a christmas party for 500 underprivlidged children in Belville. We did 5 cakes each served 100 kids- we did a range of chocolate and vanilla cakes covered in white buttericing with christmas trees, stars and candy canes piped in bright colours on each cake. The kids went CRAZY- they had an AMAZING time and we had enough cake to feed every child twice.
The show was aired on Christmas day 2005- where they showed an interview with me (Alex) and my sister Dani setting up each party and discussing what we had done- FAME AT LAST!

I have attached a photo of the pensioners christmas party for everyone to see.
Have a FABULOUS day and watch this space for lots more blogging.

Alex
The Charly’s Chick