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The more evil a pumpkin the better so far as I’m concerned. Outrageously for a blog with the word “cupcake” in the title, unless I’m mistaken, these are the first cupcakes to feature on here in eleven months. I’m fairly ambivalent about cupcakes these days and have agonised with changing the name of the [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...] Next Mich showed us a variety of ways to pipe our buttercream, spirals, zig zags, pointy bits. Provided you use a star nozzle on your piping bag, all will look surprisingly grand even with a minimum of piping experience. [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...] 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...] This recipe has been adapted from the Primrose Bakery recipe. Whenever I’m donating cakes I use baking margarine to cut down on costs but you can replace this with butter if you prefer. I would always use butter for buttercream though. I decorated them with silver balls and dragees, partly because my husband hates them and I seem to be over run with them. They could just as easily be decorated with sugar spiders and used for Hallowe’en. [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...] Fairy cakes are more delicate, with less icing and more suited to children’s parties. Those buttercream heavy beasts sold in the West End would start sheer sugar warfare at the average toddler’s get together [Read on...] 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...] 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...] 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...] 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...] Regular Maison Cupcake readers will have heard that I am going to take part in this year’s Kiss for Bliss campaign, “Cake A Difference” which will be raising money for premature and special care babies between 8-14 February. After chatting to organisers of Ted’s toddler groups I have arranged to sell some cupcakes to [Read on...] Gel food colouring has infinitely improved my confidence making icing. After the problems I’d had getting the right colours when making the Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake, I decided to invest in some gel food colouring. Mine are little pots of Wilton gel food colouring which come in a box of eight colours. They [Read on...] This has been a few weeks coming but I hope you’ll agree it’s worth the wait. This Very Hungry Caterpillar cake was my first creation for a stranger. Someone emailed a picture showing a large cake for the caterpillar’s head and a trail of cupcakes making up the body and asked if I could [Read on...] “Gravy in cupcakes?” my husband cried. Well. Crazier things have happened… Saturday was, shall we say, a tad busy. It was “Caterpillar Day”, when I did my first ever baked-for-a-stranger cake. I keep taunting you but there will be a full post on the Very Hungry Caterpillar after Christmas. Lots of you have been [Read on...] During last week when my husband and I had flu, we didn’t eat a great deal and I found myself faced with a fruit bowl full of spotty bananas. Some sort of cake seemed to be the way to go with them and after consulting my books I came up with these Sticky Banoffee [Read on...] Going away on holiday is terribly inconvenient when you’re a food blogger. In the last month I’ve had both a weekend away to Provence and a week in Montenegro. In between these trips my father was staying in the back bedroom keeping me away from the computer in the early morning and late evening [Read on...] You know that feeling you get after having taken some exams and you get home and don’t know what to do with yourself? I feel a bit like that this afternoon. My house is suitably de-cluttered after this morning’s yard sale and I am not pressurising myself to make any more cake this weekend. [Read on...] I have been very quiet this week. My dad has been staying in the spare room where computer is so I’ve not been able to get on here first thing in the morning when I do most of my blogging. Earlier in the week I made this batch of mini cupcakes following in the [Read on...] I should come clean. It’s now the fifteenth of the month I have not yet posted one recipe yet from my monthly Bake Five challenge. This month I am cooking from Donna Hay’s “Modern Classics: Book 2 ” subtitled “Cookies, Biscuits, Slices, Small Cakes, Cakes, Desserts, Hot Puddings, Pies and Tarts” but I have [Read on...] Now I don’t want you to eat seventeen of these cupcakes, it is the name of the shop they came from. My local deli is called Eat17 since we live in the postcode East 17. Quite a few of my friends have been asking whether I’ve tried the cupcakes in Eat17 so I have [Read on...] Here we have the vanilla and chocolate cake mixtures for yesterday’s Bake Five Rachel Allen recipe. As I explained there, I had too much mixture for the tin I was using so I kept back some mixture and put it into six cupcake cases. They would be a gift for Josie’s 2nd birthday, who [Read on...] |
 
 
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