Fife Baking Club & First Ever Scottish Bloggers Conference

I am playing catch up, so this is a double whammy of a post.

First up I would like to introduce you to the Fife Baking Club. Yes, a lovely bunch of ladies. No men yet, but I plan on changing that by taking Stuart aka Cakeyboi with me to the next meeting.

The Fife Baking Club is the brainchild of my beautiful cousin Claire (stripey red top) who writes A Kiss of Cookies (occasionally). Claire had been thinking of setting up a cake club for a while and after a visit to the Edinburgh Cake Ladies (don't mention Colin Firth, he was in the room and she missed him, sheesh!), she bit the bullet and set up her first meeting.

Her first venue and one I think we will be returning to was Reuben's Cafe Deli, a friendly cafe deli in the heart of Dunfermline.

She decided to go easy on us and let us choose what to bake. It resulted in a wonderfully wide range of slurpingly good cakes and a rather spectacular sundried tomato & rosemary loaf, which was a lovely break from all the sugar.

We had an excellent night.

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 And now on to this weekend. I am very excited to be going to the inaugural Scottish Food Bloggers Conference in Ayr. It heralds the start of the Scottish Food Fortnight, which encompasses a plethora of foodie events across Scotland from the 1st to the 16th of September 2012.

 I  would like to thank Scotty Brand for sponsoring me to go to the conference. Scotty Brand have been a great company to work with. Delicious, fresh Scottish produce, a very friendly bunch of people, a fun trip to see a preview of Brave with wee Cooper and now sponsorship. A big thumbs up to the team at Scotty Brand.

So our first Food Blogger's Conference in Scotland.......

Would you like to see the itinerary? I thought you would.

This jam packed full day event will feature a spectacular local food tasting lunch with lots of opportunity to network with fellow food bloggers. We're keeping it cosy with around 20 attendees including food bloggers, restaurateurs and marketing staff all interested in food blogging. This is Scotland's first Food Bloggers conference and we are capping the numbers to try and keep the conference as small, informative and intimate as possible. 

The agenda for the day is as follows:

9:30am:                              Arrival and registration
10.00am-11.00am:           Finding the best Produce and Showcasing Food for your Blog with Justin Galea.
11.00am-11.15am:           Tea/Coffee Break
11.15am-1pm:                   Using Social Media to Promote Your Blog with Colin Kelly.
1pm-2.30pm:                     Tour of the facilities followed by a cookery demonstration from Ayr Racecourse's talented and entertaining Executive Chef, Donald McInnes. Followed by a delicious plated lunch using the freshest and finest Ayrshire local produce.
2:30pm-3.30pm:               Fine tune your Food Writing with John Cooke.
3.30pm-4.30pm:               Food Photography Masterclass with Darren McKean.
4.30pm - 5.30pm              Food Promotion with Christopher Trotter.
5.30pm-6pm                      Networking and Close

I am lucky enough to have some good blogger friends there too:

Janice - Farmersgirl Kitchen 

Stuart - Cakeyboi 

Louise - Please Do Not Feed the Animals 

Elaine - Fun as a Gran 

Photos and gossip to follow!!

Oh and most excitingly I am in today's Daily Record - Scottish Food Fortnight supplement. (and not page three as Camilla suggested, tsk!)

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