My recreation of Peggy Porschen’s White Chocolate Passion Cake covered in a whipped cream and white chocolate ganache. The recipe is from her latest book that I recently reviewed, Boutique Baking and is reproduced with permission from the publisher below. Below is my experience making the cake. Cake lovers will be pleased to hear that […]
Mystery cakes and bakes by post!
Everyone loves parcels and who wouldn’t want to receive some cakes or biscuits by mail?
Bake Me I’m Yours Sweet Bitesize Bakes Swap!
The time has come, Bake Me I’m Yours… Sweet Bitesize Bakes has started shipping from online retailers even though it’s not due to be available in shops until later in June (maybe 29th although these things seem flexible!). I’m extremely proud to be the writer of a title in the highly successful Bake Me I’m Yours series […]
Afternoon tea with Fleur and “Forever Nigella”
A quick heads up that this month’s Forever Nigella is being hosted by Fleur at Homemade by Fleur from June 1st to June 28th. Fleur’s post will go up tomorrow morning here. (site since taken offline) The May round up with Diamond Jubilee theme will be published by Nelly at Nelly’s Cupcakes over the weekend. […]
Boutique Baking by Peggy Porschen: Book Review
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Jubilee cupcake cases
This is something I’m going to just blog quickly as time is tight… If you’re about to buy cupcake cases for jubilee cupcakes you’re probably thinking they’re all the same right? Wrong.
Espresso Blondies Dipped in Chocolate
I have a confession. I don’t drink coffee. In fact I don’t drink any hot brown drinks apart from the occasional hot chocolate in winter. But I do love coffee flavoured bakes and sweets – in fact it’s me who hoovers up all the fondant coffee cremes in boxes of Roses and Quality Street. Knowing […]
Red Onion Tarts With Feta
These Red Onion Tarts With Feta are filled with caramelised onion jam and topped with cubes of salty white cheese. They are very easy to make with ready-made puff pastry or vol-au-vent cases. Updated 2026 · Recipe originally commissioned by Apetina The salad of my childhood was generally some well soaked lettuce, slices of cucumber […]
Honey and Lemon Popovers With Cream Cheese
These Honey and Lemon Popovers were an experiment, I didn’t have a clue whether these popovers in mini Bundt tins were going to go awry. And the first tin pretty much did. I got them out the oven too early, I’d over filled the mini Bundt rings. But that’s ok because I could spread my […]
May cupcake crumbs: including the Waitrose party and Peggy Porschen book launch
Photo credit: Ren Behan It’s been a busy week at Maison Cupcake HQ, I’m trying to get my kitchen redone but the lady from Wickes didn’t turn up, I amused the man servicing my boiler by my photography set up on the dining room table and I had, shock horror, two evenings out on the […]
Ciabatta Pizzas with Sun Blush Tomato
These easy mini pizzas are easy to make in minutes home or away. A light meal or tasty appetiser using sundried tomato, mozzarella and olives.
Ted bakes jubilee biscuits
Incase you’re wondering, I didn’t do these. Ted did. It’s only a matter of time until Ted has a blog of his own, tonight I even caught him lining up a silver cake board as a reflector leaned up against some baked bean tins. Meanwhile, despite best intentions, I did not manage to blog my […]
