On July 1st the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) will be eliminated. A 7% B.C. rate will be added to the 5% Goods and Services Tax (GST) forming a combined HST of 12%. How will this affect your wedding cake budget? … Read More
Posted in Sweet Thea Blog | Leave a comment130 years ago today, on March 26, 1880, Duncan Hines was born. Many people don’t know that Duncan was a real person – unlike Betty Crocker, Aunt Jemima, or Bubba Gump. Duncan was a travelling salesman for a printer in … Read More
Posted in Sweet Thea Blog | Tagged cake mix, duncan hines | Leave a commentThis week is the 62nd Anniversary of the wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten; did you know that the Australian Girl Guides organized the biggest and best wedding cake for the event? Princess Elizabeth had just become a … Read More
Posted in Wedding Cake | Tagged fruitcake, mountbatten, queen elizabeth, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentThea is cutting and packaging 80 individual portions of fruitcake for a wedding, so rather than be useful I thought I would share some information about the very strong relationship the English have with this most delicious concoction. (her fruitcake … Read More
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged Fruit Cake, fruitcake | Leave a commentOur friend Kathy Marliss has put together a most wonderful afternoon – if you are getting married, mark this on your calendar! Here is what the flyer says: Avoid the wedding show crowds and join us for a relaxing afternoon … Read More
Posted in Community | Tagged kathy marliss, milestone events, Surrey, sweet thea, veil, wedding show | Leave a commentThanks to all of you who stopped by to say hello to Thea and I at the Langley Welcome Wagon Wedding show this last Monday, and tried Thea’s delicious cake samples – lemonberry (lemon & raspberry), and my favorite – … Read More
Posted in Sweet Thea Blog | Leave a commentAn old German legend says that, for the pure of heart, all sorts of amazing things happen on Christmas eve – rivers turn to wine, animals speak to each other, mountains open to reveal their gems, trees bear fruit, bells … Read More
Posted in Pastry & Desserts | Tagged gingerbread, Lebkuchen, Pfefferkuchen, stollen | 1 CommentWhen Thea and I were thinking about this website, I mentioned people would be interested in her reviews of her many cook books. She looked at me for a second, then dashed over to her bookcase, and grabbed a book: … Read More
Posted in On My Bookshelf | Tagged Flavor Bible, sweet thea | Leave a commentNot all wedding cake is thrown away after a wedding! On this day last year, a piece of wedding cake from the marriage of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 was sold for $1,000 UK pounds (approx $1,830 … Read More
Posted in Wedding Cake | Tagged princess diana, Wedding Cake | Leave a commentToday is the 10th Anniversary of the wedding of the Kabaka (‘King’) of Buganda, Ronald Mutebi II and his ‘American’ wife, NYU graduate Sylvia. Buganda is one of 4 Kingdoms in the country of Uganda, which most westerners know only … Read More
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