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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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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