A Forest of Gold

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Christmas may nearly be upon us but with the mild weather we’ve had until the past week, autumn is still very much in my head. [Read on...]

Review: Three Oinks for Peppa Pig World!

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Review of Peppa Pig World, at Paultons Park on the edge of the New Forest. [Read on...]

Postcard from: the Goodyear Blimp

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The Goodyear Blimp will tour the skies in 20 European countries during 2011 to highlight the Goodyear brand at various consumer based activities and events. [Read on...]

Whitstable movie part two: around the shops

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Here is a quick 2 minute video of my recent day out in Whitstable, Kent. After my last film showing you the beach and harbour, today’s clip is all about the independent shops – who currently have an array of Easter and royal wedding window displays. [Read on...]

Cured Beef Quesadilla: It’s a Kind of Sandwich

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My favourite use of tortilla wraps is the quesadilla. You can put anything in a quesadilla, it’s the Mexican answer to toasted sandwich much like Croque Monsieur is for the French. [Read on...]

Dinner with Crayons: The Counter Cafe, Hackney Wick

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Today’s Dinner with Crayons kid friendly restaurant/cafe review continues my mini-series of cafes within reach of the 2012 London Olympics site. We are visiting The Counter Cafe in Hackney Wick, run by the same team behind The Container Cafe. The Counter Cafe is, as you can see above, quite literally in the shadow of [Read on...]

Postcard from... Olympics 2012 Site, The Container CaféPostcard from… Olympics 2012 Site, The Container Café

“Postcard from” is my occasional series of non-recipe weekend posts. Today’s postcard comes from the View Tube, a social enterprise and community project overlooking the London 2012 Olympic site. A slightly delayed weekend postcard… I am juggling making a birthday cake, redesigning this blog and building up some posts to publish during my imminent holiday. [Read on...]

Postcard from… Secret Nuclear Bunker Canteen

“Postcard from” is my occasional series of weekend non-recipe posts. Martha Stewart has nearly 2,000,000 Twitter followers but only follows around 8,000 users herself. Today she started following me. If she reads this blog post, she’ll probably go the way of Bob Bob Ricard and Lahloo tea and dump me pretty sharpish. Food does [Read on...]

Dinner with Crayons: Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Cambridge, Kid Friendly Restaurant Review

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Today’s post is the first of a new occasional series, Dinner with Crayons, in which I will review kid friendly lunches out. Venues will range from the more obvious family chains to independent cafes and, if we don’t get thrown out, more exciting places. The financial pages are not my usual reading material but [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...]

Postcard from… Walthamstow Village

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...]

Emma Bridgewater Factory Shop in The Potteries

Gladstone Pottery Museum: My dad and son in the Emma Bridgewater factory shop: Five years ago I bemused my colleagues with news of a trip I’d taken to Stoke on Trent. I had spent a happy day with my husband viewing the bottle kiln at the Gladstone Pottery Museum (pictured above), with it’s cafe [Read on...]

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    Possibly healthiest burger ever. Olive & shittake! #wildfoodcafe #nealsyard (Taken with instagram)


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    In love! #lecrueset #valentines ramekins in M&S #westfield (Taken with instagram)


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    Am being taunted by pictures of Parisian hotel bars in press releases. The 34th floor La Vue bar at Hotel Concorde La Fayette. #Paris #hotels


    01/23/12

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    Busy editing the book today - tantalising sneak peak! (Taken with instagram)


    01/16/12

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    KitKat Chunky frenzy! I’m nabbing the peanut butter ones, which would you choose? #chocolate 

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    01/16/12

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    Valentine’s treat using Renshaw’s red Ready to Roll coloured icing.


    01/11/12

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    Two limited edition Valentine’s cupcake flavours available from Peggy Porschen Parlour, Belgravia:

    Strawberry & Champagne and Chocolate Raspberry Kiss make the perfect cupcake couple for Valentine’s Day. Cupcakes priced at £3.50 each, available to pre-order for collection online at www.peggyporschen.com from February 1st 2012.


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