Maison Cupcake in Paris: lusting after Ladurée

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Maison Cupcake in Paris Part One

Is it Easter already? Twelve months have passed yet it feels like yesterday my husband and I escaped by ourselves for a holiday weekend in Paris by Eurostar.

As I was preoccupied with a tight deadline for the first photo shoot of the book I never got [Read on...]

Review: Butler’s Chocolate Cafe, Dublin

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Last weekend whilst Maison Cupcake was whizzing through the air between Blogger and WordPress I was whizzing through the air myself from Birmingham to Dublin.

Ted was safely despatched on Grandma’s boat for the weekend whilst Nick and I had two nights away as a joint celebration for our wedding anniversary [Read on...]

Review: Eat17 cupcakes

Now I don’t want you to eat seventeen of these cupcakes, it is the name of the shop they came from.  My local deli is called Eat17 since we live in the postcode East 17. Quite a few of my friends have been asking [Read on...]

Review: What’s Up Cupcake? Whitstable, Kent

Today we paid one of our regular visits to Whitstable in Kent.  It is one of the closest seaside places to East London and traffic permitting, we can be there in around 1 hour 15 minutes.  Our previous trip had been in the spring of this year where we [Read on...]

Review: Primrose Bakery in Primrose Hill, North London

We eventually found Primrose Bakery further down Gloucester Avenue back towards Camden.  They have two shops, the one here and one in Covent Garden.  I assume from the name that the Primrose Hill shop was the first.  Their shop is a modestly sized cafe in shabby chic [Read on...]

Review: M&S Café cupcakes… yuk!

My mother and I are having a shopping mission in Oxford Street today.  Our day started in the basement of John Lewis looking at baking equipment and we continued to Divertimenti in Marylebone High Street, then onto Emma Bridgewater and Cath Kidston [Read on...]