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Glasgow Baking Club Cakes, bakes and banter BY YVONNE MALLIE
Photography by Bex M. for Glasgow Baking Club (glasgowbakingclub.wordpress.com)
An afternoon spent whipping up cakes, biscuits and pies doesn’t just reward you with tasty treats at the end, it could also help you make new friends and provide you with new recipes! That is, if you join Glasgow Baking Club of course. “The purpose is social, just like a book group” says Kirsteen, one of the founders of the Club “it’s a meeting of likeminded people”.
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Glasgow Baking Club was founded in 2012 by four women with a passion for baking including Kirsteen, who says she read about Cake Clubs and got in touch with Edinburgh Bakers via Facebook to ask how to form one - “They invited me to attend their next event and by the time that event took place, one of the other founders had been in touch with them to ask the same! So Edinburgh Bakers swapped our details. We met up, involved our two friends that were also keen to be involved and that’s how it started. We consisted of a mix of one hobby baker and three baking related business owners – a cafe, a home baking farmers’ market stall and a cake decorating school. Baking Clubs were very popular at that time”. Baking Clubs are still very popular, with nearly one in every city in the UK. Fuelled by the likes of The Great British Bake Off, the passion for home baking continues to grow unabated. But the purpose isn’t as much baking as it is