Welcome to my celebrations for the 100th Maison Cupcake Blog Post! To kick off I am going to do a round up of the Cake A Difference cupcake sales that I organised last month to raise money for Bliss, the premature baby charity. Baby shower cupcakes Over three days during Cake A Difference week, […]
Blueberry and Vanilla Muffins
Time has been running away with me these last couple of weeks so you may have noticed activity has stepped down a notch on here. Ted developed an obsession with the computer, in particular, the marvelous CBeebies website, meaning I’ve been keeping it switched off when he’s awake. Outside of the house I’ve been running […]
Lemon Macarons with Rosemary – Fresh Spring Flavours
The theme of this month’s Mactweets Macaron Challenge was “spring flowers”. I have deviated from this a little and taken my inspiration from what spring means to me, it’s Mother’s Day and my mother’s birthday always follows shortly afterwards. My mother’s name is Rosemarie so I decided to make this month’s macarons using rosemary paired with lemon.
Lemon Custard Dessert with Cookie Crumbs
A quick and easy pudding today. I have been lolling on the sofa watching Julie & Julia on dvd after a cupcake decorating marathon for the final Cake A Difference cupcakes. After all my hard work I am on target to have raised over £200 for Bliss and will do a dedicated post about this […]
Butternut Taleggio Tart
Spar was the local supermarket on the Midland’s council estate where I spent my teenage years. With humming fridges and strip lighting, it sold things like Vesta curries and crusty rolls in a giant plastic tube with a hole at the bottom from which you pulled your bread before decanting it into a polythene bag. […]
Postcard from… near St Remy de Provence
“Postcard from” is my regular series of weekend non-recipe mini posts. Spring has sprung in London this week, I had the unfamiliar experience of saying, “Look Ted! The sky is blue.” My thoughts are turning to the summer holidays and how I am going to entertain the little person for six or seven weeks whilst […]
Lime Ginger Mousse
After the last bumper picture packed post I hope you will forgive me for doing a little recycling today. I had so much of the zabaglione, pastry cream, whipped cream and mascarpone mixture left over from assembling the tiramisu that I piped it into glass dishes as a separate dessert. I deliberately made […]
King Cake Dessert: Tiramisu with Southern Comfort
The February 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen and Deeba of Passionate About Baking. They chose Tiramisu as the challenge for the month. Their challenge recipe is based on recipes from The Washington Post, Cordon Bleu at Home and Baking Obsession. They wrote, “The perfect Tiramisu is a balance of […]
Postcard from my mother’s narrow boat
“Postcard from” is my regular series of non recipe Saturday mini blog posts. “Really?” people tend to say when I tell them my mother lives on a narrow boat, “What? All the time? Isn’t it cold?” Yes, I reply. All the time for over ten years. And no it isn’t cold because she has central […]
Postcard from… Vannes Brittany part 2
Today’s post is one of my regular series of Saturday non-recipe mini posts, “Postcard from…” Last week I shared pictures of the parade in Vannes, Brittany. Today I am in the mood for something a little “zen” so here are a couple of shots from the hotel garden where we stayed on the same holiday. […]
Arsenal Birthday Cake
Today I had been intending to post pictures of chocolate brioche for the Monthly Mingle organised by Meeta, What’s For Lunch Honey? and hosted this month by my friend Jamie at Life’s A Feast. The ingredients for said chocolate brioche have been taunting me in the kitchen all last week whilst I was busy making […]
Chocolate Crepes Suzette – Spectacular French Flambé Dessert
Chocolate Crepes Suzette is a chocolatey twist on traditional French flambéed pancakes with orange sauce. Since trying them, it’s been hard to imagine Crepes Suzette without chocolate as it works so well. Crepes Suzette is a classic French dessert where pancakes are soaked in orange sauce then flambéd in alcohol. I will forever associate them […]
