Who Cares holds a book signing for Ruth Walton

Ruth Walton, Children’s Writer, Book Signing Who Cares

Who Cares has confirmed that Ruth Walton will be in store at Who Cares on Saturday 28 November 2009 signing copies of her children’s cook book, Let’s Bake a Cake and Christine Giles the proprietor of Who Cares will be sampling cakes that can be made from the Who Cares product range – organic, fair trade and local.

Ruth Walton will join Who Cares to sign copies of her cook book for 6-8 year olds, Let’s Bake a Cake, which contains a fair-trade and organic recipe and explains where each of the ingredients to bake the cake come from. Customers will also be able to sample the chocolate cake in the book.

Since completing her Masters, Ruth has been working with Hachette, who are a part of the educational publisher Franklin Watts, to produce a series of books for 6-8 year olds. The Let's Find Out series includes six titles exploring different materials and where they come from. Through quirky illustrations and lively text, each book helps children to find out about the world around them.

Christine Giles the owner of Who Cares said “We want children and parents to explore the major food groups and ingredients using the Let’s Bake a Cake recipe and a fair trade Christmas cake recipe. We can really bring the subject alive, make it fun and interactive and of course the bests bit – eat the outcome”

Ruth Walton said “Ever since I was a child I have been interested in environmental issues, and my ethical viewpoint comes across subtly in my writing which I think is a good way of teaching children about some of the issues, I think signing the books and sampling the cake will be a good way of getting children to take an interest in where some of their foods come from.”

If you would like to join in with this event visit, Who Cares, 33 Silver Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1JX on Saturday 28 November 2009 from 9:30 am onwards. For more information on Who Cares visit the website at http://www.whocares.gb.com/ and for more information on Ruth Walton visit the website at http://www.ruthwalton.co.uk/.


The Recipes we will be sampling:

Let’s Bake a Cake Chocolate Cake Recipe

165g butter
165g fair trade sugar
Three free range eggs
100g organic self raising flour
60g fair trade cocoa powder

For the topping

85g butter
100g fair trade icing sugar
40g fair trade cocoa powder


Who Cares Fair Trade Christmas Cake

Serves 6-10 people

225g fair trade organic sultanas
175g fair trade organic currants
100g glace cherries (rinsed/dried)
125g-250g organic brandy
225 diced free range English butter
225g fair trade golden caster sugar
Four free range local eggs
225g organic ethical plain flour
One teaspoon organic ethically sourced mixed spice
½ teaspoon organic baking powder
Pinch salt
50g fair trade almonds or pecans (roughly chopped)

For the Icing

450g fairly traded organic icing sugar
One free range egg white
One Juice of an organic european Lemon