By Duncan Bick

Published at 10:48, Saturday, 21 July 2012

Have you ever wanted to meet new people at a secret location and eat cake?

If your answer to that question is ‘yes’ then your fairly unique wish could come true this weekend.

The Clandestine Cake Club (CCC) is holding its first meeting in Carlisle tomorrow.

This group, which has branches around the United Kingdom, encourages people to come together over a shared love of home baking.

Anyone attending a meeting must take a cake they have produced themselves with them. This cannot include cupcakes, brownies, muffins, tarts, cheesecake or other non-traditional bakes.

The clandestine aspect comes from the way events are organised. Potential attendees must also register their details with the local chairperson, who will tell them the exact location of the meet the night before it happens via e-mail.

In Cumbria, this is the responsibility Thursby woman Margaret Scott.

“Many years ago, when I worked for an architectural practice in my hometown of Ayr, a colleague and I designed a cake to enter the annual RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Christmas cake competition,” she said.

“It was so big we couldn’t actually transport it to London, so the whole office shared it for weeks. That’s when my love of cake-making started, and for many years I produced novelty cakes to order both in Ayr and in Fort William where I lived before moving to Cumbria.”

She first heard about the CCC via a national TV programme.

“I have to say it’s not something we could do every week or the waistlines would suffer dreadfully, but the idea of meeting up with cake-lovers to swap recipes, eat cake and have a laugh sounds amazing.”

Anyone attending has to support the event’s host venue by buying tea, coffee or other drinks to help wash down the cake.

If anyone is interested in heading along to the Carlisle meeting, register at www.clandestinecakeclub.co.uk.

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