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Archive for the ‘Cupcakes’ Category

Chocolate caramel cupcakes

Posted in Baking, Cake, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Toffee/Caramel, tagged , on February 23, 2012 | 8 Comments »

At the beginning of February, I went to London to visit my lovely friend, Jessica. Jess and I have known each other since we were teeny tiny children at nursery. I won’t lie, there’s been some rocky patches in our friendship; Jessica once savagely kicked me under the table in class when we were 9. [...]

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Christmassy chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream icing

Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Christmas, Cupcakes, tagged , , , , on December 27, 2011 | 21 Comments »

Christmas! Christmas Christmas Christmas! Did you have a good one? Did you get lovely presents? More importantly, have you eaten bloody loads? We had a slow build up to Christmas (a few biscuits, chocolates and a gingercake), then BOOM, Christmas Eve, time to eat your face off. Non-stop. For the next week. So we’re mid-eating [...]

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Halloween cupcakes

Posted in Baking, Cake, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Double cream, Toffee/Caramel, tagged , , , , on October 31, 2011 | 11 Comments »

Happy Halloween! Did you go to a halloween party? Did you dress up? Did you make halloween-themed baked goods? Did you, did you, did you? Where was it? What did you wear? What did you make? Hmmmmm? I did not go to a party or dress up, but I did make these pretty orange and [...]

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Sticky toffee cupcakes

Posted in Baking, Cupcakes, Toffee/Caramel, tagged , , , on October 15, 2011 | 15 Comments »

  These cakes just say autumn to me (not literally, that would be mental. And would I still have the heart to eat them if they could talk? I’m so glad they can’t talk.). I think it’s the warm, fudgey flavours of the toffee and the autumnal orange of the fudge and icing, and sticky [...]

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Mars bar cupcakes

Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Mars bars, Toffee/Caramel, tagged , , , , on October 2, 2011 | 18 Comments »

Are Mars bars the finest chocolate bar ever created? Yes. Yes they are. Mars bars have got me through many an afternoon at work and I would eat several every day if I could. They are possibly my favourite chocolate bar and I decided I needed to make a cupcake based on them. Turns out [...]

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Cookies and cream cupcakes

Posted in Baking, Cookies and cream, Cupcakes, Egg whites, Oreos, tagged , , , on August 9, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Are they still cookies and cream if I left out the cream? I did have some in the fridge but it was a week out of date and I didn’t really want to poison Chris’s colleagues. Not when they say such nice things about my baking.

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Rose cupcake icing

Posted in Baking, Cupcakes, tagged , , , , on July 31, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Yesterday I had a lesson in icing cupcakes to look like roses from my sister-in-law (near enough ), Claire (who runs her own cupcake business, Sweet Sugar Sixpence. Have a look!).

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Graduation cupcakes – banoffee and tiramisu

Posted in Baking, Bananas, Cupcakes, Double cream, Egg yolks, Mascarpone, tagged , , on July 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Did I mention my sister graduated last month? With a 2:1? She’s very smart. And here is another reason she’s smart: to celebrate, she requested Tiramisu and Banoffee cupcakes. Yum yum yum.

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Strawberry cupcakes

Posted in Baking, Berries, Cupcakes, Strawberries, tagged , , , on July 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Today I had a baking disaster. Want to see?

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