Posted in Baking, Cake, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Double cream, Toffee/Caramel, tagged caramel, chocolate, cupcakes, halloween, pumpkin 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 black cupcakes 🙂 Enter if you dare… it’s only cupcakes, silly
Posted in Baking, Cupcakes, Toffee/Caramel, tagged baking, cupcakes, dulce de leche, toffee on October 15, 2011| 16 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 toffee anything is just great comfort food. While this cake is still my favourite of any sticky toffee dessert, these cupcakes are delicious and definitely worth a make. You want some sticky toffee? Yeah you do!
Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Mars bars, Toffee/Caramel, tagged caramel, chocolate, cupcakes, dulce de leche, mars bar on October 2, 2011| 21 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 these are my favourite cupcakes too! (more…)
Posted in Baking, Cookies and cream, Cupcakes, Egg whites, Oreos, tagged baking, cream cheese, cupcakes, oreos 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 I did have some in the fridge but it was a week out of date and I didn’t really want to poison Chris’s colleagues.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. (more…)
Posted in Baking, Cupcakes, tagged cupcakes, how to ice a cupcake like a rose, icing, rose icing cupcake, roses 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!). (more…)
Posted in Baking, Bananas, Cupcakes, Double cream, Egg yolks, Mascarpone, tagged banoffee, cupcakes, tiramisu 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. (more…)
Posted in Baking, Berries, Cupcakes, Strawberries, tagged baking, berries, cupcakes, strawberries on July 16, 2011| 3 Comments »
Cafe Lula 