Cake and scotch egg extravaganza

At work today we had a cake and scotch egg sale to raise money for Boost, the excellent charity I'm running for.

Victoria had given up her time to cook 70 of her renowned scotch eggs, just a day before going on holiday. These were always going to sell well - in fact word somehow got out and she'd had people queuing with advance orders.

Priya baked a very fine vanilla layer cake with strawberries and cream, and some truly beautiful cupcakes with piped icing and little glacèd fruit slices on top. They'd have graced the window display of a pâtisserie. She even made chocolate brownies, too.

I wasn't about to lower the tone by attempting to bake something myself so I contacted Miranda, an ex-colleague who used to bring in delicious cakes baked by her mum. I ordered 2 cakes - but her mum baked FIVE for me. These included superb carrot, walnut and chocolate cakes.

Thanks to the willingness of these three people to give up their time so selflessly and to their fantastic culinary creativity and skill, we made £375 today. We should even push past £400 tomorrow when the last few slices of cake are sold (there was SO much food).

I'd never dreamed we'd make so much. Thanks so much, guys! Thanks too to Ollie and Miranda for helping make it all come together.

UPDATE: Total raised from the cake 'n' egg sale was £403. Impressive!