Aha! You thought I’d gone away for the summer but I have one last trick up my sleeve before taking my self imposed August blog break. I realised I still hadn’t entered English Mum’s Big Bake Off and that this nutty apple loaf was just the ticket. This is the cake that I made [Read on...]
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The ten winners of the Flahavan’s goodie bags given away in this post were: Sunita Bhuyan, Ipswich Jax Blunt, Felixstowe Su-yin Koay, London Nuala O’Niell, Belfast Julie Johnson, Birmingham Denise Walker, Birmingham Beverley Kerry, Derbyshire Simone Price, Leeds Pippa Wright, Milton Keynes Sian Reynolds, Milton Keynes With thanks to Flahavan’s [Read on...] Hot on the heels of my sponsorship by Irish porridge oat brand Flahavan’s to attend Cybermummy, I received an exciting invitation with an Irish flavour. It was to attend a food photography and styling workshop hosted by Bord Bia, the Irish food board, led by professional food photographer and stylist Alastair Hendy and taking [Read on...] One more post after today then Maison Cupcake officially breaks up for summer. There are a couple of reasons for this, a) Ted is off pre-school so I have less free time on the computer, b) I want to finish my new WordPress site without the pressure to post new material at the same [Read on...] The Portsmouth to St Malo crossing is around ten hours and arrives in port at 8am French time so you get more sleep and do less driving. It’s a win win situation. [Read on...] 
Today sees the final part of my trilogy of suggestions for chutneys and beetroot picked up from the Baxter’s afternoon tea. Out of the dozen recipes they gave me, I ended up making six of the savoury ones at home to reproduce what I’d seen that afternoon. I didn’t walk away intending to make [Read on...] With thanks to Waitrose for inviting me to their Christmas launch last week. And the popcorn. Any disappointment I might have had last week about not being asked to attend the opening of Bompass and Parr’s The Complete History of Food evaporated when I received an invite to the Waitrose 2010 Christmas press launch. It [Read on...] 
Two quick and easy beetroot recipes to make tapas for summer parties. [Read on...] “Postcard from” is my occasional series of weekend non-recipe posts. Sian of Mummy Tips opens the conference I am a bit slow off the mark getting this post up about the Cybermummy day itself. I was going to include this material in my flapjack post but it was already very long hence it being posted [Read on...] Some weeks ago, a friend requested a moist fruit birthday cake covered in slabs of marzipan for a Siamese cat loving relative. I hadn’t made fruit cake for years but remembered it being easy enough. However when choosing a recipe I found many that required days of steeping fruit in alcohol. Fortunately Nigella Lawson’s [Read on...] 
You’ll have to excuse me. The past few weeks have been rather frenetic due to this and this and it has taken me longer than promised to share this Cybermummy flapjack recipe in FIVE flavours and host a giveaway for my Cybermummy sponsor, Flahavan’s. I’ve also been doing my first ever edited movie, a [Read on...] 
It comes with much hilarity to me that I might be perceived as any kind of baking “expert” yet in my first year of food blogging I’ve had approaches related to three television shows to “come in and cook something.” When the team behind Miele kitchen appliances asked me to come into their London [Read on...] A holding post before you all think I’ve disappeared. This weekend, I went to the incredible Cybermummy conference in London, a massive get together for around 180 mummy bloggers. I will give a more detailed rundown on my thoughts about the day and how mummy bloggers compare to food bloggers in the next few [Read on...] Today is the first of two posts sharing further recipes for cakes I made for Martyn Cox’s open garden day featured in my previous post. Several of you have been pleading for the marzipan cake recipe but I’m going to taunt you a little while longer for that and today it is Maltesers Cupcakes. [Read on...] |
 
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