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.

Plum Cupcakes with Coconut Icing

These Plum Cupcakes have vanilla bases with fresh fruit and are topped with an icing made from coconut milk. U…

This Apricot Tart uses a ready-made roll of shortcrust pastry topped with fresh apricot halves. Although my ho…

My Apricot Ice Cream uses dried apricots soaked in amaretto liqueur and is churned in a freezable ice cream ma…

You can use either canned cherries or pitted fresh cherries in this Cherry Meringue Pie, or as you see here, a…

This is a really Quick Raspberry Tart using two cheats: firstly a ready-made pastry case and secondly an alter…

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

Lemon and poppy seed is a classic flavour combination and works beautifully in these Lemon and Poppy Seed Cupc…

Those little tubs of ready-made meringues you get in the supermarket can come in very handy. I’ll never…

An easy no-bake lemon cheesecake-style dessert using low fat quark, lemon curd and speculoos biscuits –…

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…

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