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.

Coffee and Walnut Eclairs

Eclairs, some people will have you, are the new cupcake. This is of course nonsense, eclairs have a short shel…

Lemon and poppy seed cupcakes Makes 12 Ingredients For the cupcake batter 125g unsalted butter, softened 125g…

Some day or another I’ll get around to making a bona fide cheese cake that you bake in the oven –…

Usually making chocolate mousse involves folding whisked egg whites into a chocolatey custard type mix and if…

Sparkly chocolate coffee sugar cookies, trying to convince myself to drink coffee whilst learning to use the D…

A few baking trays and an hour’s attention paid to this store cupboard granola and you’ll have a c…

I always thought syllabub was something complicated with whisked egg whites. This orange syllabub with speculo…

Pink grapefruit has a unique flavour and this pink grapefruit jelly makes a sparky low fat dessert.

Cheating need not mean buying a pack of Mr Kipling French Fancies - you get a similar effect with this easy ve…

If you leave all the ingredients ready the night before, making these banana fudge muffins for breakfast is a…

Brandy snaps are caramelised biscuits. The brandy reference comes from the addition of brandy into the cream t…

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