Here are some of the cakes, including the delicious marmalade and orange cupcakes with mascarpone and orange filling! They are the ones with the gingerbread man on - I love the photos that my daughter took of them, especially the one with the shaded background where the gingerbread man looks slightly sinister ooo...

As for cafewatch the news is slightly depressing:

unfortunately we live in a town where everything is owned by the colleges and they can afford to keep the properties empty until the next enormous, bland corporation comes along who can afford the rents and opens a cafe aargh.. Cambridge has the least number of interesting, independent cafes and restaurants of any town I've visited from Tavistock to Inverness which makes for unappealing eating out. I like the Jamie's restau (well, I've only been once!) but it would be nice to have streets like the ones in Brighton, London or any other town big or small filled with lovely little places where the owners make their own food so you get a huge range of delicious (cheap!) dishes which you really feel have been made with some feeling for the food.

I recently went to a little cafe near to my eldest son's uni house - my youngest daughter was with us too - we had 2 gozleme (handmade flatbreads, filled with cheese and spinach which you could see the woman making in the shop window), a cup of tea, a huge mushroom omlette and chips, a coke and a juice. It was all made in front of us in a funny looking little, very clean cafe with a fountain in the corner - don't know why but it sounded good! - and came to less than £10!

So the search continues for a location to open a lovely little cafe selling homemade food - the revolution starts here!

Happier news is that next week I shall have baked raspberry cheesecake on the stall :))