creating surprising street encounters//brightening up the everyday urban environment with playful art projects//guerilla art//street art//community performance// theatre//installation//burlesque//circus//carnival//tea parties//festivals//vintage treasures//pretty dresses//photography
The Great Cake Escape vs Sprinkle Brigade- a homage. Film by Michael Travis, 2007. www.michaeltravis.net ..
Heroes
Alice in Wonderland//Marie Antoinette//Danny Wallace//Miranda July//Faille//Frank Warren//Willy Wonka//Mr Kipling//Betty Crocker//Hansel and Gretel//London Rollergirls
About me: OUR CAKES ESCAPED! DID YOU 'TAKE THE CAKE'?
THE GREAT CAKE ESCAPE
we would love to see cakes invading the streets every day...
So get baking, cake crusaders, and a trail of brightly coloured treats shall populate the urban landscape forever more!
from baker street to old street...
from spitalfields to hoxton square...
here, there and everywhere...
find me//read me//take me//EAT...
if you dare.
T-A-K-E-T-H-E-C-A-K-E
NEXT EVENT: GIRL GERMS
Come this Friday to get vegan yummy cakes from us!
Then on Sunday we'll be at Finsbury Arts Festival Tea Dance, 3-5pm...don your prettiest frock and dance the afternoon away to make your granny proud...grabbing a free cake from us for energy!
FONDANT FANCY and CHERRY BAKEWELL would be delighted to bring cakey magic to a street or event near you...
what started as a birthday wish, extended to a little project to keep us out of mischief and boredom...and now the cakes have taken us on many fantastic adventures and we're excited to see where the cakes shall escape to next...ideas, challenges and requests on a postcard please! Or message/email us...takethecake@hotmail.co.uk
See calendar for details of where you can catch up and some of our infamous cakes...
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Yes, the babycakes are indeed one whole year old...1000s of escaped cakes and millions of hundreds and thousands on, we are delighted the project is still going on and that cake drops are still happening across London and the UK. To celebrate our first year's birthday, we did an extra special cake drop on Saturday 22nd NOVEMBER around the place where the inaugural one occurred. There was one extra special golden cupcake hidden for one lucky cake taker to find and win a mystery prize. Nobody found it or claimed their prize though....Booo! Willy Wonka didn't have this problem... Let us know if you find it!
Lots of lovely people joined us in Hoxton Square for a street tea party to celebrate with a much needed warming cup of hot chocolate and a cake or two...We love meeting you all, keep your eyes peeled for more cake drops!
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The Great Cake Escape has recently featured in thelondonpaper, Le Cool, Time Out and Soho HOUSE magazine. Ooo we do like a good bit of press and publicity! Those little cakes are getting quite a reputation for their escaping antics....
THE GREAT CAKE ESCAPE featured in The Guardian, G2, women article 'Do good feminists bake cupcakes?' http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/aug/22/women
THE GREAT CAKE ESCAPE WASS FEATURED IN AUGUST'S ISSUE OF ELLE MAGAZINE- 'cool cakes' page 124- take a peek!
FEATURED IN THELONDONPAPER-Fri 18th JulyLondonist interviews The Great Cake Escape
Brightly coloured cakes invade the streets, transforming the bleak urban environment of London and other UK cities.
Check out this short doc film made by the lovely Mike Travis. He's been helping document our cakey shenanigans over the past year or so...see the fruits of his labour here! And commission the feature length film starring Scarlett Johansson and Maggie Gyllenhaal as us (ha, we can keep dreaming!)
xx Let us know what you think
Who I'd like to meet: anyone who finds a cake and takes it// curious types//those with greedy appetites//artists//willy wonka//sweet toothed individuals//urban explorers//sugar daddies//sweetie pies//cheesecake pinups//cake eaters//dreamers//idlers//street artists//jammy dodgers//bakers//candlestick makers//birthday girls//city slickers//ladies (and gentlemen) who wear frilly knickers//grannies//trannies//creative people//ladies who lunch//tea addicts//burlesque beauties//mr kipling//treacle tarts//fondant fancies//gingerbread men
AUGUST ISSUE OF ELLE - photo by the lovely Jade French
Hey, how you ladies doing? Been up to anything exciting? I haven't been able to enjoy the sunshine we've been getting as i'm editing this stupid book! xxxx
i am back!! how are you oh cakey one?! having a photo shoot in a couple of weeks so keep your peepers open for the results!! website is in the making! wooop! whats new with you? loving the background of your myspace page!! xxx
Then on Sunday we'll be at Finsbury Arts Festival Tea Dance, 3-5pm...don your prettiest frock and dance the afternoon away to make your granny proud...grabbing a free cake from us for energy!
AUGUST ISSUE OF ELLE - photo by the lovely Jade French
