A recent offer came up for Afternoon Tea followed by a class of your choice – you could choose from cup cake, chocolate or cocktail making. Jenny was interested in getting a group of us girls together for such an event but thank god they didn’t want to do the cup cake making. To me cup cakes are so last year and that includes the multitude of offers you see around for cup cake making/decorating classes! We didn’t really know what to expect at the Peacock Bar but when Nimet and I arrived it was to see a Hen party going about their cupcake and cocktail making business. The girls who run the classes were dressed up rather cutely in that 1940s look which really set the feel for the day.

Jenny was running late for our class but luckily the organisers were fairly relaxed about things getting us drinks to occupy us whilst we waited for Jenny. It was good that they weren’t concerned with trying to start things exactly on time and that they had the flexibility to adjust the timing for us.

When Jenny did arrive we were a bit disappointed to find that afternoon tea wasn’t on offer – instead we got the chance to make chocolate and …. yes, cup cakes! Argh! As none of us had really read about the offer before arriving we weren’t actually sure what we were supposed to get! I guess the cup cakes were a substitute for our afternoon tea?

The pros of the day were, as I mentioned, the flexibility of the organisers (Jenny was late for over an hour but they didn’t mind!), a very casual and relaxed atmosphere, very friendly hosts, divine quality chocolate for our chocolate making (and we got to dip fruits to eat as we went along too!), with the cup cake making there were lots of different colours and extras to decorate our cupcakes (and we could eat as many as we wanted!) and finally even when we were finished they were happy to let us sit around (when they really needed to chuck us out as they had function.)

It turned out to be a fun day but I’m certainly going to overdose on sugar again with all my cupcakes!