Sweet Baking & Desserts

Home baking and dessert recipes from Maison Cupcake, from cakes and cookies to tarts, easy and enjoyable for everyday or special occasions.

Chocolate Whoopie Pies

Although chocolate whoopie pies are normally served in pairs, sandwiched with sweet marshmallow fluff, these o…

This is an adaptation of Nigella's Forever Summer "Summer Crumble". I've simply lifted her apricot crumble out…

Luxurious Rhubarb Raspberry Pavlova with white chocolate sauce Although not a girly girl, I do love fuschia. B…

Orange Pannacotta Crumble Pots with Candied Kumquats were made for a Daring Bakers challenge. The February 201…

Today I ground up some last few large chunks of praline to create a fine pink dust and stencilled it onto thes…

You smash pink pralines up and scatter them over things before baking and afterwards you get these wonderful p…

French toast seems to be a generic term for eggy bread... you'd expect eggy cake to be a bit rich but I'm plea…

My terrifying Coke addiction – the liquid, not the powdered variety – has been mentioned before an…

Gibanica (ghee-ban-itz-er) is filo pastry baked with yogurt, egg and oil. It frequently includes salty white c…

This cake impressed me, it was a majestic size, rises heroically in the oven and slices into fat moist tranche…

What do you get for being a smartie pants trying to make your cupcakes at the last minute? Smartie pants rocky…

Beyond heating cream and blitzing chocolate in the food processor, all you need to do with these puddings is p…