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Last Updated - 3rd \March 2010
"Chiesa"
Dragons and Daffodils Cakes were delighted to be asked to produce the dessert for
the exclusive VIP Shopping event at Maria Church's "Chiesa"

The evening was a great success and was absolutely packed.

We hope you enjoy a little look.
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07872 037832
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Copying of our Photographs
It has been brought to our attention that our photographs are being used on other peoples websites either as design choices or to advertise their
company.
You could say that copying is the most sincere form of flattery, however, these websites haven't copied the design, they've used our actual
photographs! Which means that they probably haven't actually created a cake similar to the one they are trying to advertise which is most
worrying for the Bride who then orders it in good faith.
All photographs on our website were of cakes actually produced by Dragons & Daffodils Cakes.
Our photographs and cakes are not to be used by another company or person unless they have been given express permission by Rhianydd
Easton (Owner/Proprietor of Dragons & Daffodils Cakes).
If you see one of our designs on another site, please can you let us know.
Thank you
Above - Charlotte and Maria Church

Left - The Cake. 200 of our Chocolate
Treats
"The Dragons & Daffodils Story"
We had an article on how Dragons and Daffodils Cakes began in Issue
95 of Cakes and Sugarcraft magazine.
Click on the pics for a little look, or buy your copy for a read.
Jaci Stephen
The Daily Mail
Sian Lloyd
Lucy and Rhodri Owen
(hiding!)
A well-deserved glass at the end of
a successful evening!
I don't think you could have fitted
anyone else in.  Guests were treated to a
glass of wine from Ballantynes and lovely
canapes from Elgano
Claire Meredith
Caregos Couture Jewellery
Also contributing to the evening were Eva Designs - Handmade Cards who made the beautiful VIP
invitations
and Basgedi Florists who created the stunning floral arrangements you can see in the photographs.
Out with the Nurses
Rhianydd had a great afternoon with
the Nurses and staff from Oral and
Maxillofacial Department of the
Royal Glamorgan Hospital on their
Training Day.

They all made Christmas Trees

I hope you like them!!
21st Squires Kitchen International Exhibition Mar 07

Rhianydd took four wedding cakes to the Wedding Cake Display and another "cake" to the Table of
Honour.
Rhianydd also taught a
mini class on her sheep
pillars which was a
fantastic afternoon
with much hilarity. Left
is the lovely ladies and
right is the result of
their hard work.
(click for close ups)
Our display table.

The weekend was
only marred by the
theft of the large
floral display at the
base of the white
iced cake.

Always disappointing
when you are among
fellow sugarcrafters!
The Tree!
Rhianydd fancied a change from the
usual wedding cakes for this chocolate
tree.  Chocolate dominos, chocolate
transfer sheet butterflies and modelling
chocolate blossoms and roots
Dragons and Daffodils Cakes have celebrated their one year
anniversary at our new Studio.
The South Wales Echo visited the studio and wrote a feature on us.
Here are the clips (We aren't responsible for the Giant worm quote,
but it did make us smile)
(Newspaper is too large to scan in one,
so we have scanned the separate halves

Click on each to enlarge)
Left is a clip of the
Squires Kitchen web
class.
We are delighted to say that we are in the
August/September 07 edition of
Cosmopolitan Bride
Find our Retro choc cake on p.105 in "What's Hot".
Out now (Aug/Sept)
Bakery Industry Awards 2007
Celebration Cake Maker of the Year
Category sponsored by Renshaws.
We are proud to announce that Rhianydd Easton of Dragons & Daffodils
was runner up for this coveted Award.  All the team went to London for the
Award Ceremony in September hosted by the fabulous Joanna Lumley.
Here are a few pics of the night, and the Cake Rhianydd produced for the
judges.
Runner up for
Celebration Cake
Maker of the Year
Rhianydd with Joanna Lumley and
Stephen Heslop (Renshaw)
With Chef Paul
Rankin
With Sian Hindle (La
Creme Patisserie), the
YearRunner up for
Patissier of
With husband Kevin
The Team!
(L to R) Julia, Rhianydd and
Nicola
The Cake!
Our theme - redecorating the
studio!
The top tier is a fancy dust sheet
with mini display cakes on top.
Rhianydd and Julia are supporting
the top tier and Nicola is busy
wallpapering.
We had to be innovative, use
colour, modelling, piping and a
specialist skill (sugar pillars).
The inside, when cut, gave a slice
of cake coloured like a rainbow.
Finalists!
(Centre Sue McDonld, Have
Your cake & Eat it and Terry
Tang (Terry Tang Designer
cakes), the well deserved winner!
Dragons & Daffodils Cakes
for BBC "The One Show"
We were delighted to be asked to produce a cake to celebrate the "Green Gyms"
10th Anniversary.

The cake was taken to the Isle of Wight for filming by Lucy Siegle and depicted a
typical Green Gym enthusiast doing "just what they do!"

The programme about the green gyms was on TV  "The one show" BBC1 7pm
Tuesday 10th March 2008

Click here for the Green Gym website
Pobol Y Cwm
Our Cake for "Pobol Y Cwm" the opening of the new Deri pub.

This is the cake that was used for the filming of the show.  We were
given a pic of the Deri pub to use (a nice sneaky peak before it was
revealed!)
Highly Commended
for the UK TV Local Food Hero Awards of 2008.

About the Awards
The UKTV Food Local Hero Awards are a tribute to Britain's independent shops,
farm stalls, artisan producers, cafes, pubs, and small businesses.

We were delighted to be nominated by one of our happy couples.  The reviews
we have received have been a pleasure to read!

Visit the UK TV food website there is a direct link to our section on the site.

Tuition
We now have a list of Sugarcraft courses that are available.
Both for certified college courses and courses at the studio.  Visit the
Sugarcraft pages on the home page to see.

Places are limited and on a first come first served basis.
Dragons & Daffodils Cakes
Runner up for Celebration Cake
Maker of the Year
Website Under Construction

We are making major changes to the website, so please bear with us.

Meeting The Twilight Stars

We had a fantastic weekend at the Massive Events
"In The Shadow of the Moon"
Twilight Proms
In Birmingham September 2009

Even meeting stars from the Twilight Films (from left)

Jose Zuniga who plays Mr Molina the Biology Teacher in "Twilight",
Daniel Cudmore (also from XMen) who will be playing Felix, the Volturi
Guard from the highly anticipated upcoming "The Twilight Saga: New
Moon"
and Charlie Bewley who will be playing Demetri the Volturi Tracker from
"The Twilight Saga: New Moon"
More Twilight Madness

We were delighted to be asked to Re-create Bellas Birthday cake as seen in
the film Twilight New Moon for the Gold Pass Drinks Reception at Massive
Events Eternal Twilight 3 in the Birmingham Hilton
February 2010.

Stars from the film mingled with the lucky gold pass holders, and all received
a portion of our lemon cake with a tiny red wafer paper apple on top.

Present were:
Christopher Hayerdahl ("Marcus" and also Stargate Atlantis; Supernatural
and Sanctuary);  
Jamie Campbell Bower ("Caius" and also from Sweeny Todd);
Charlie Bewley ("Demetri");
Kiowa Gordon ("Embry")
Tinsel Korey ("Emily")
Pobol Y Cwm

Keep an eye on this popular Welsh soap opera, and see if you can spot our work!
Pictures to follow after the episode has aired!
Squires Kitchen International Exhibition 12-14 March 2010

We are really excited to once again be exhibiting at this wonderful exhibition.
Rhianydd will produce a display of cakes for the Wedding Cake showroom, and also
a design for the Table of Honour
She will also be teaching Bride and Groom modelling workshops and how to decorate
Wedding cookies workshop
For more information visit Squires Kitchen
NIACE Inspire Tutor Awards

Rhianydd was delighted to be nominated
for an award in the prestigious Niace
Inspire Adult Learners Awards 2009 for
her Sugarcraft classes with Rhondda Cynon
Taff adult education.

She attended a prize giving at the Rhondda
Heritage Park.

Visit the link below to read the article

RCT Website
Rhianydd with Lynnette El-Khatib, Head of Adult
Learning at Rhondda Cynon Taf Council