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English bakery and café, A Piece of Cake, is celebrating its 20th anniversary on Saturday with a Christmas-themed open house offering guests delicious treats, baking classes, arts and crafts workshops as well as a chance to meet Father Christmas.
The popular Budaiya diner and adjoining handicraft store, Celebrations, are inviting customers from across the kingdom to enjoy a festive feast of complimentary minced pies, sausage rolls, a warm Christmas beverage and cake-cutting ceremony from 10am until 2pm.
Bakery owner, Kim Hijris, 54, from Saar, said: “We always hold an annual Christmas open house so we thought the best thing would be to combine it with the cake-cutting ceremony. We always have great support from our friends and customers during Christmas and this is our way of thanking them for their constant patronage.”
Tables and chairs will be placed in the car park for families to sit and sip their tea or coffee while the children are entertained by elves in the handicraft workshops indoors.
Father Christmas will be located upstairs in a decorated grotto-like room and children will be able to take pictures with him. The other rooms will be turned into decorating stations for children to create Christmas cards and ornaments, holiday gift bags and scrap books as well as design party crackers, plates and mugs. The 15-minute classes are for children 12-years and under and will cost between BD1 to 2.
Meanwhile, Kim will be holding a gingerbread house-making class for children aged seven and above. The classes, which are fully-subscribed at the moment, are priced at BD8 and will allow children to design their own fully-sized gingerbread house as well as taking it home.
Kim first started dishing out tasty cakes 20 years ago from her humble abode until her long-time best friend and craft shop owner, Dana Al Rashoodi, 50, recommended her to a customer and it all snowballed from there.
Kim and Dana moved into the Budaiya shop 10 years ago as they always wanted to work together and found that their businesses complimented each other well. Meanwhile, her daughter Sara, 28, runs the first A Piece of Cake branch in Riffa.
For more information contact 17596055.
