The Big Draw: Creativity & Cake with Frances Quinn

Join The Big Draw and artist & Great British Bake Off Winner, Frances Quinn for an evening of making a no-bake Biscuit Cake and a conversation on all things creative.

Frances will guide you in making this show stopping cake without the use of an oven and sharing her passion for design, music and drawing along the way. You'll get to create a cake along with her in real time, make some adorable marzipan bees and enjoy a relaxed evening of creative conversation.

All attendees will receive a link to Zoom a few days prior to the event. Feel free to join in and bake, or watch and ask Frances any questions you may have. If you and your friends are taking part, you'll need the following:

INGREDIENTS

• Selection of biscuits, digestives, rich tea, hobnobs, ginger nuts.
• Icing sugar to dust
• A bar of dark chocolate.
• Flaked Almonds
• Golden (yellow) marzipan
• Cocktail sticks
• Some sprinkles, freeze dried raspberries, and flowers to decorate.

Biscuit cake filling options:

• Tub of cream cheese or mascarpone.
• Icing sugar

Equipment required

• Small palette knife or dinner knife
• Cereal bowl and spoon to mix your fillings in
• Sift to dust the icing sugar with
• Small paintbrush to paint your marzipan bees with
• A few cocktail sticks

Before winning the Great British Bake Off, Frances Quinn's background was in design, having studied Textile Design at Nottingham Trent University and going on to work within design companies in London to Vancouver. She often gets asked 'what would you choose baking or design'? But for in her mind, it’s never a choice and always a collaboration of the two. Frances is constantly thinking creatively whether designing with food or fabric. It’s what drives her ideas and is the ingredient that helps her produce unique and edible designs.

From fabric through to food, Francis sees inspiration in everything. Her creative process always starts or ends with an idea, design or concept that she often finds easier to express by ‘drawing’ on her imagination. Sketching up designs and pairing them with a recipe helps to feed both her own and other people’s creative appetite before she has even reached for a spoon. It’s the impact, response and experiences created through designing with food that Francis finds the most inspiring.