Sweetfest 2015Do you haver a sweet tooth - or two? We do - so we dropped in to Sweetfest 2015 - and we're glad we did. It was understandably busy - cause people love sweet things.
The concept was straight forward. They had stalls there selling their sugary sweet wares, and they had a series of masterclasses from some of the best in the sweet business. Tick and tick!
It was very busy there, both inside at the Masterclasses and outside at the stalls. It was all running so smoothly though. At the stalls, the food was moving quickly so people didn't need to queue, or when they did, not for long at all. It was great food too.
Inside the masterclasses the crowds were being entertained, educated and impressed by some of the best around. We dropped by the masterclass with Andy Bowden which was being expertly compered by the dynamic Myffy Rigby. The crowd loved it. He was making sort serve desserts - sampled by an impromptu dance-off winner. The big screen up behind them meant everyone in the audience could see what was going on. 
We also had a chat with the next "sweet act", the lively Alistair Wise who had come all the way from Sweet Envy in North Hobart. Now we wished we'd been able to stay for his session as we've been to Sweet Envy in North Hobart. We therefore have some sort of connection.
Alistair is a real character - he literally bounces - he's a ball of energy.
His session was "salted caramel, pecan sticky bun and the expanded theory of everything".
In a weird way it summed him up perfectly.
Next to us was a cake made earlier by Katherine Sabbath - adorned with lollypops and dazzling everyone with its bright colours. It certainly lived up to its name of "Water Coloured lollypop cake".
Katherine was arriving just as we left and this was another missed opportunity for us to hear from a sweet legend.
This was the first year for Sweetfest. It was popular, it had great food available and great demonstrations from some of the best around, all expertly kept together.
We left with plenty of goodies from a number of the tasty stalls there. We'll be back next year!
