Big Lunch Day has arrived

Today is the day when things finally came together. Although I had been up early helping make sure cars were removed from the street, moving my table onto the pavement and collecting a bulk order of sausages from the local butcher, it was not until 11.30 that it was time to put out my [Read on...]

1 day to go… using Multi Tier Cake Tin and making my own Cake Stand

Things are hotting up today. Having scattered various trays of cupcakes around the kitchen it is becoming obvious that I need a stand to put them on otherwise I will take over the table at tomorrow’s Big Lunch. I do not as yet own a cake stand so I decide to make one. My own [Read on...]

Yellow Icing

Big Lunch cupcakes, continued… these are my favourites so far. Yellow is an easier colour to work with than the others I have tried so far. Above we have decorations as follows: Pink buttercream blobs with Dr Oetker sugar flowers Dr Oetker sugar flowers on their own (is less more? Not sure…) Mini marshmallows [Read on...]

Lurid Pink and Green Piped Buttercream

More Big Lunch cupcakes… well, this really is a learning curve. I now know that blue food colouring is less intense than pink. Whereas a half teaspoon of blue food colouring was only enough for a pastel blue on yesterday’s batch, today I learn that pink is less forgiving. I got over confident with the [Read on...]

Big Lunch, Big Challenge

Our street will be hosting a Big Lunch on 19th July. I am in charge of communicating with everyone in the street and publishing an online list of who is bringing what to the food table. I have put myself down for cupcakes so I have an excuse to make batch after batch of [Read on...]

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


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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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