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Nikki | Staff Profile
This month, the spotlight is on Nikki Houliston, one of our awesome employees at Kapiti Cakes and Bakery. What’s your name? Nikki Houliston How long have you worked for Kapiti Cakes & Bakery? Not long enough (only 5 months) What is your favourite Kapiti Cakes...
read moreMorning Tea With Beach FM: Opera Gateau
We have an award winning Opera Gateau that we make, it has 8 decadent layers of chocolate, coffee butter cream, liquor, almond sponge and more. This is Thomas' favorite cake at the moment, so you know it must be good. This is the perfect cake if you want to bring in...
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Morning Tea With Beach FM: Donuts, Donuts, Donuts
Everyone loves donuts right? We make all our donuts fresh in house with a basic gluten structure, yeast and sugar. The structure of our gluten in the donut is key, as this creates the perfect elasticity in the dough which creates the perfect donut structure. Then we...
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Cake Decorating Supplies
We now stock the largest range of cake decorating supplies in the Paraparaumu area. If you are a keen baker and want to try something new, come into the store and browse our great range. Our range includes: Cake cards and cake boards - Perfect for supporting your cake...
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24 Tier Wedding Cake
Recently we made the biggest cake we have ever made! A 24 tier wedding cake, which was a Massive challenge for everyone, but as you can see the result is amazing. One of the hardest parts of this cake build was sourcing all the pillars to create the structure. We also...
read moreMorning Tea With Beach FM: Soup and Buns
This week we are featuring our soup, Kumara and Bacon with a wholemeal bun. Just what you need to warm yourself up in winter. Also Thomas is talking about the biggest cake he has ever made, a 24 tier wedding cake. You can read all about it here (link to blog...
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Morning Tea With Beach FM: Steak & Red Wine Pie
Slow cooked chuck steak from the local butcher, combined with red wine and the Thomas family famous secret recipe. This was our pie of the month for June. A very popular choice among the locals, especially on the cold days when you need a little warming up. We also...
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Morning Tea With Beach FM: Coffee & Biscuits
We bake 4 types of packet biscuits here at Kapiti Cakes & Bakery, from Shortbread to Speculaas. What's a Speculaas biscuit? Listen to Thomas here on Beach FM to find out, also listen out for the special offer when you come in and buy a coffee.
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Meet Phillippa Drummond
Meet Phillippa Drummond, she has not been with us long, but is now part of the family here at Kapiti Cakes and Bakery. We asked her a few questions, and threw some curly ones in to keep her on her toes. What's your name? Phillippa Drummond How long have you...
read moreMorning Tea With Beach FM: Pulled Pork Pie
Here at Kapiti Cakes and Bakery we love experimenting. This week we have created a rectangular pulled pork and spicy apple pie. Listen to Thomas on Beach FM talking about it.
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New look for Kapiti Lights coming soon
Kapiti Lights is about to get a makeover with work to upgrade the area commencing next week. The Kapiti Lights upgrade is a key project in the Council's town centres transformation programme which aims to take advantage of the opportunities provided by the Kapiti...
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Cake Nightmare
Is this a wedding cake? We received a phone call from the Otaihanga Boating Club asking if we could help. A friend had collected a wedding cake from Wellington and the cake had not made the trip well at all, as the top tier had slipped. She was obviously upset as it...
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