The eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted that I omitted my Saturday Postcard last weekend. Since I was up until 3am working on the Arsenal birthday cake and baby shower cupcakes, I am posting this retrospectively at the same time as the Saturday Postcard for February 6th. The above shot was taken in Orford [Read on...]
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Regular Maison Cupcake readers will have heard that I am going to take part in this year’s Kiss for Bliss campaign, “Cake A Difference” which will be raising money for premature and special care babies between 8-14 February. After chatting to organisers of Ted’s toddler groups I have arranged to sell some cupcakes to [Read on...] In the novel “Blackberry Wine”, Joanne Harris’ follow up to Chocolat, the protagonist inherits some bottles of fruit in alcohol that have been steeping for around forty years. Each time he drinks one of them, he has hallucinations and then needs to drink another bottle to see what happens next. Or at least that’s [Read on...] Postcard from… is my series of Saturday mini-posts. Today’s postcard is from a bird hide in Tottenham Marshes, part of the Lee Valley Park which borders the 2012 London Olympics site. Selfridges food hall, the Designer’s Guild Warehouse Sale, St Tropez; there are many places I’d rather be than sat in a bird hide [Read on...] What to do, what to do with a heap of egg yolks from my various macaron making disasters? (See here and here if you haven’t experienced these yet). Having recently done the mince pie ice cream I opted this month for some flavoured custards. First up is chocolate custard pudding. I have based this [Read on...] Writing about restaurants is not something I really do, mainly because with a two year old, I rarely venture anywhere more imaginative than various branches of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and Pizza Express with their child friendly packs of crayons and high chairs. The envelope was being pushed last Sunday with a trip to the [Read on...] Gel food colouring has infinitely improved my confidence making icing. After the problems I’d had getting the right colours when making the Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake, I decided to invest in some gel food colouring. Mine are little pots of Wilton gel food colouring which come in a box of eight colours. They [Read on...] This weekend’s Saturday Postcard comes from Ghent in Belgium, one of the larger towns in the Flemish part of the country. On a weekend trip on the Eurostar we were visiting one of my former college friends who at the time was living in Waterloo, some 30 minutes south of Brussels. My first trip [Read on...] Sharing how to make a hungry caterpillar cake has been a few weeks coming but I hope you’ll agree it’s worth the wait. This Very Hungry Caterpillar cake was my first creation for a stranger. Someone emailed a picture making a very hungry caterpillar cake showing a large cake for the caterpillar’s head and [Read on...] 
I am fond of the word “quiche” as my Grandma Kitty used to remind me of an occasion when I embarassed her in Nuneaton’s Attleborough Co-op in around 1985: Grandma at deli counter: “I’ll have some of that quit-chee please” My 11 year old self: “Grandma! It’s keeeesch!” [Read on...] Before you read this post, be warned that Blogger is double spacing my paragraphs and it’s driving me nuts. Something about this month’s Mactweets macarons was to be new. “Maybe drying out fruit to create a new flavour/colour powder, try Italian meringue, try new flavour combos, try getting feet if you’ve never done that before… [Read on...] This blog post marks the first in my new series of Saturday mini-posts which will be called “Postcards from…” I will use it to share anecdotes and pictures coming from holidays, friends and family around and about. Today’s postcard is from my uncle in France. Galette des Rois Villeurbanne, Lyon, Jan 6 Dear Sarah [Read on...] “Instant” conjures up images of Smash potato and that horrid powdered soup in sachets. I wanted to convey how quick this soup was hence my calling it “immediate” soup instead. Healthy food that can be produced virtually immediately is a jolly useful thing when you’re trying to eat healthily in the New Year. The [Read on...] 
There will be quinoa, there will be tofu and there will be beansprouts. But not today. It’s very early January and you’ve probably got a fridge full of holiday ingredients knocking about. A nice big ham cooked in Coca Cola in the Crockpot, half a pack of vacuum packed chestnuts, the remains of the [Read on...] |
 
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