2010 March | Maison Cupcake | How to bake your way through life

Low Sugar Carrot Cake Muffins… and High Sugar Lemon Cupcakes

Virtuousness has been a rarity for me recently, although here I’ve discovered a recipe to coax my inner good girl back out. This comes after making cupcakes for a family party celebrating my grandfather’s 30th wedding anniversary. My step grandmother, Anne, is diabetic so I looked for a low sugar alternative to the cupcakes. [Read on...]

100th Post Cupcake Party, a trip to Whitstable and an International Give Away

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, [Read on...]

Blueberry and Vanilla Muffins and Food Blogger Connect 2010!

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 [Read on...]

Lemon and Rosemary Macarons and Interflora Gift Review

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. [Read on...]

Donna Hay Lemon Custard with Graham Cracker 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 [Read on...]

Butternut Squash and 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 [Read on...]

Postcard from… Sunnier Climes

“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 [Read on...]

Southern Comfort, Lime and Ginger Mousse with Savoiardi Biscuits and Giveaway Winner

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 some [Read on...]

Southern Comfort Tiramisu with Lime and Ginger, King Cake Style: Daring Bakers Challenge

My second month cooking with the Daring Bakers and I almost didn’t make it. I had a little girl’s birthday cake to finish by the same date and naturally that had to take priority! This post has been a bit of a marathon – it’s a bit long with close to 50 images but [Read on...]