Dinner with Crayons: Carluccio’s Canary Wharf and Interflora hamper giveaway winner

Ted holds carluccios wafer

The high street is stuffed with Italian places to eat: Pizza Express, Strada, Ask, Zizzi, Prezzo. The total bill came to around £30 including three soft drinks. If you want to take lunch out somewhere a little more sophisticated than most high street chains, that is still child friendly, Carluccio’s is an excellent choice. [Read on...]

Two charity bake sales with a difference: Cupcake Camp London and The Great Brownie Bake Off

As I grapple with the technology overload that comes when you foolishly acquire a new computer, blogging platform and iPhone in quick succession, you may have noticed there’s not been a hell of a lot on the recipe post front lately. Not to say I’ve haven’t cooked anything, I mean a girl has to [Read on...]

Why you didn’t see me on The Great British Bake Off – Oh and some Sage Derby Scones

After receiving applications from “thousands” of people, around 30-40 had been asked to bring in actual food. By being interviewed by phone I’d already skipped over about 3 stages of the process. [Read on...]

Eat, Pray, Love: new Julia Roberts film review

“Are you happy?” is a little question with big answers. If “yes” then that’s cool and you can roll back on the sofa with a glass of prosecco or pant your way round a squash court, whatever floats your boat. If you’re not, do you annoy your friends and endlessly grizzle? Or alternatively, like [Read on...]

Butler’s Chocolate Cafe in Dublin and an Interflora Tower of Treats Hamper Giveaway!

Last weekend whilst Maison Cupcake was whizzing through the air between Blogger and WordPress I was whizzing through the air myself from Birmingham to Dublin. Ted was safely despatched on Grandma’s boat for the weekend whilst Nick and I had two nights away as a joint celebration for our wedding anniversary and his 40th [Read on...]

New Digs

Welcome to Maison Cupcake’s new home over at Wordpress. We’ve exchanged contracts, completed and the removal men have gone home. The new site has been up a couple of days but I was away on a jolly to Dublin at the weekend and it’s only now I have chance to unpack the last few boxes and rearrange stuff the way I like it. [Read on...]

Moving right along…

Holidays are over and so is my August blog break. Although I’ve returned to Twitter sooner, I must admit to sitting on my hands to not post things in the past few weeks as my attention has been focused on entertaining Ted during the pre-school holidays, potty training and finishing the new WordPress site. [Read on...]

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