Squires Kitchen Exhibition is like Crufts for cake! I recently mentioned that the Squires Kitchen Exhibition is back next weekend. The show runs Friday 14th to Sunday 16th March and to coax you into going, here’s a taster of what to expect. Rather than just a consumer show, Squires Kitchen Exhibition lets you get […]
March Bitesize Bits
The annual Squires Kitchen Exhibition hits Surrey once more this month – I have featured cakes from this extravaganza in these previous posts about baby shower cupcakes and floral cakes. Whilst the Cake and Bake Show or Cake International may boast larger venues, Squires offers a rare opportunity to close up and properly inspect top […]
Dead Easy Desserts 4 and round up
March means a new round of Dead Easy Desserts, the event for puddings and sweet things taking 30 minutes or less to prepare. How to enter Dead Easy Desserts When: Dead Easy Desserts runs from 1st month to 29th with full round ups of all entrants who have mentioned the challenge in their newly published […]
Pizza Express, Westfield Stratford
There are pizza chains and Italian chains aplenty in the UK but some are more omnipresent than others. I read once in a newspaper review that Pizza Express was the most flexible dining option for any occasion. Equally fine for treating the kids, a business lunch or a date. It’s not too cheap, it’s too […]
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Character Cookies
Colourful collection of character cookies based on Cloudy with Meatballs 2, including Flint Lockwood, the strawberry and cheese burger cheespiders!
M&S Westfield Stratford
I am a member of the Collective Bias Social Fabric Community. This shop has been compensated as part of a social shopper amplication for #CollectiveBias and its advertiser. A day shopping is my favourite way to spend some “me time”. We spend days in shopping malls as a family but I relish opportunities to go […]
Konditor and Cook Valentine’s designs
Another sugarcraft showcase on Maison Cupcake – today it’s the turn of Konditor and Cook. Konditor and Cook were my nemesis en route to work in my former life. I couldn’t pass their Holborn branch without buying one of their muffins for breakfast! If I tell you Peggy Porschen previously decorated cakes at Konditor and […]
February Bitesize Bits: products, pampering and a meal deal
Some lovely things we’ve tried recently… From top: Lékué, a Spanish brand of high quality silicone kitchenware and baking moulds have given me some homework to keep me busy… I have already utilised the mini brownie mould in my Gran Luchito brownies, it’s thicker than most siliconeware and guaranteed for longer: 10 years compared to […]
Justin & the Knights of Valour Character Cupcakes
It’s been a while since I did any sugarcrafting so when the film company behind kids’ animated film Justin and the Knights of Valour asked me to celebrate the film coming out on DVD this week, the gauntlet was well and truly thrown down. I don’t know how this movie crept under my radar first […]
Westfield Stratford Dining and Shopping
I am no stranger to Westfield Stratford City, you may recall my previous shopping geekery post 30 things you need to know about Westfield Stratford City as the ultimate insider guide getting the most out of your visit. Until the time they hire people to give guided tours of the place, the next best thing for […]
Chocolate Chilli Brownies (Gluten Free)
These mini bitesize brownies with gold leaf are hot stuff suitable for Valentine’s dessert or luxurious canape. They get their kick from Gran Luchito honey.
Mint Chocolate Puddings with After Eight
These melting peppermint puddings would make an ideal dessert for dinner for two or in larger numbers for a tableful of guests.
