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Big Lunch Day Has Arrived

July 19, 2009 by Sarah Trivuncic Leave a Comment

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A street party scene with bunting and a cake saying The Big Lunch in foreground on a pink cake stand. Photo copyright Sarah Trivuncic 2009, all rights reserved, no reproduction without permission.




Today is the day when things finally came together.  Although I had been up early helping make sure cars were removed from the street, moving my table onto the pavement and collecting a bulk order of sausages from the local butcher, it was not until 11.30 that it was time to put out my cupcakes.  We had pleasant weather but there was a strong breeze and I had to tape my cake stand down to the table with masking tape covered with matching pink pencil.  Then I had to cut a circle the size of the base into the middle of a paper table cloth and poke the stand through the hole.  Fortunately this worked well.
Then it was the moment of truth, arranging my cupcakes on the tiers and best of all putting my Big Lunch white chocolate cake with marzipan letters on the top.  There were the perfect number of cupcakes to fill all the tiers and I was very pleased to hear lots of compliments – though admittedly as many of these were about the pink cake stand as the cakes!
I was so happy with the result I even uploaded a picture to the BBC website (who had an area for Big Lunch photos) and they have published it here on their Big Lunch top story page where it will remain in their archives probably forever.  So my first big occasion cake is recorded for all eternity!
Edit 2025: If only I had known that hosting a Big Lunch street party was going to kickstart writing this blog for fifteen years and counting. The places it would take me! For a quick summary read about Sarah Trivuncic

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About Sarah Trivuncic

Sarah Trivuncic has published recipes, restaurant and travel reviews on Maison Cupcake since 2009. She lives in Walthamstow, East London with her husband and teenager.
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