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I have a new lens for my camera. This possibly not the most obvious way to introduce you to it but I am still getting to “know” it and experimenting taking pictures of my latest cake decorating booty seems a good plan! Dr Oetker Shimmer Sugar First up, various Dr Oetker products; this canister [Read on...] 
Orange, yellow, brown leaves crunching under foot, mist in the air, the smell of bonfire smoke and the fizz bang of fireworks. There’s no mistaking autumn has arrived, even if we’ve just had the mildest October in memory. [Read on...] 
We’ve had our dry run for BBC Children in Need 2011! Actually our trick or treaters enjoyed these last week so we’ll have to make some more in time for November 18. [Read on...] After a hiatus caused by each of my family getting flu in turn, this post is part 4 in my series about Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Raymond Blanc’s Oxfordshire hotel and cookery school. Scroll down to the bottom of this post for a list of other posts in this series covering the accommodation, [Read on...] 
You smash pink pralines up and scatter them over things before baking and afterwards you get these wonderful pomegranate coloured fragments of sugar on top. [Read on...] 
This Krushchev Dough, apparently the favourite dough recipe of former Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev, is a forgiving one that breaks many of the usual rules of bread making. [Read on...] This picture has a touch of the Fanny Craddock’s about it – by which I mean it looks like kitsch 1970s food photography (of which I am a huge fan). I can explain. I have been taking photos in virtual darkness to the point that I cannot see how dishevelled the cake in front [Read on...] If you squash 4-5 cherries into the well of the kugelhopf and leave it for a couple of hours, some of the juice comes out of them into the cake. [Read on...] Today’s recipe is possibly the only one I can think of that requires an item of clothing or an accessory to accompany it. France’s Galette des Rois is traditionally served on January 6 for the Feast of the Epiphany marking the end of twelve days of Christmas. [Read on...] 
This cake impressed me, it was a majestic size, rises heroically in the oven and slices into fat moist tranches without crumbling. You could walk into any bake sale proud with one of these under each arm. [Read on...] 
What do you get for being a smartie pants trying to make your cupcakes at the last minute? Smartie pants rocky road. It’s one step up from cornflake crispies but the bottom line was I knew the children at the disco would enjoy them. Which is what counts. [Read on...] Scones are best on the day they are made but if kept in an airtight tin, a quick 15 seconds in the microwave will send them back to that just out of the oven softness. [Read on...] 
Given that my husband is part Serbian, I was very excited by this recipe. I’ve not eaten kiflice before but they sounded delicious, a buttery bread roll filled with salty white cheese. [Read on...] Christmas came early for me this week with Tesco sending me one of said cupcake decorating kits featuring everything I’d need to make a batch of Christmassy cupcakes. [Read on...] 
I recently received a bag of very strong Canadian bread making flour from Sainsbury’s Taste the Difference range and prepared to get kneading. Not being an experienced bread maker, I don’t know enough to compare this flour with other brands but soon I hope to change all that. [Read on...] I love this cake as you can mix all the batter in a double boiler adding all the ingredients to the melted butter and chocolate. I don’t have a dishwasher unless you count the one I’m married to, so anything that stops him complaining about mess is good by me. [Read on...] 
Really easy Chocolate Bailey’s cupcakes using the cream liqueur in both their buttercream and sponge bases. [Read on...] 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...] 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...] 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...] 
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...] 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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