September 26th, 2010
New Cupcake Stand Category: Uncategorized
Another cake stand for my collection, this time one for my favourite little cupcakes. I also finally managed to pick up the piping nozzle I’ve been after for a while…
September 26th, 2010
Another cake stand for my collection, this time one for my favourite little cupcakes. I also finally managed to pick up the piping nozzle I’ve been after for a while…
February 26th, 2010
Elodie had a little party for her friends last Sunday, so I made a little buffet and cupcakes for pudding. Well, their mums & dads needed feeding too…
November 8th, 2007
November 4th, 2007
This is my catch up post as I’ve been lazy!
Over the last two weeks I have made a tomato curry, took my first (self-taught) lesson in sugar craft, made more soup (roasted tomato and pepper with tarragon) and made up a claire original butternut squash tart. So here goes…
Tomato Curry – it turned out ok but definitely needed more sauce to it..
I made the curry on a Friday night & I will add the recipe when I can lay my hands on it. It was tasty just a bit too dry.
Cake Art – this is something I hope to play with more over the coming months. I’d really like to be a able to bake and decorate some really nice cakes. Anyway this was my first attempt at icing sugar paste and making flowers…
And the final product… (they did taste good!)
Next on my list of accomplishments is another soup (sorry if I’m getting boring here, but it’s that time of year).
This time it was Slow-roasted tomato and red pepper soup – it was really tasty & we have 2 servings in the freezer…
Ingredients (Serves 4)
Serving suggestion – toasted baguette with a slightly melted topping of Crottin de Chavignol AOC (Goats Cheese)
How to Do It
We served with crusty bread & butter.
The tarragon added a creamy sort of taste – it really was very nice. Possibly one of my favourite tomato soups.
Lastly we have my original Butternut Squash Tart… based on Simon Rimmers Feta & Spinach Free-form pie in Septembers Delicious Magazine. I made it to use up the left over butternut squash from the soup the other day.
Ingredients (Serves 4)
How to Do It
July 10th, 2007
Whilst things over here have been a bit busy & hectic recently I haven’t had much to blog about.
For example, we went to the opening of the new Red Ape enclosure at Chester Zoo a couple of weekends ago. It was nice. But it rained and rained and erm, rained. And we stood around, stood around and then queued in the rain. Eventually we got in & saw one Orang-utan. Yes one. Then we walked some more in the rain to get some nibbles (ok, not fab) and then hopped on the monorail for free all the way back to the car.
We also helped out at the Zoe’s Place summer fete. In the rain. Though I did bake some delicious cupcakes thanks to my new favourite recipe from Nigella. Though they all sold quite quickly so we didn’t get a look in.
However, the rain seems to have brought the baking abilities out in Mr C. Would you believe it?
He was quite taken with the one cake he did manage to scoff (the one that fell on the floor, what is it with men?).
So we have now seen two batches of cakes courtesy of Mr C. The first ended up getting left at my mum & dads so he had to make a second batch!!
I cant wait to see what he bakes for my birthday cake ;)
April 2nd, 2007
At Christmas I received my first two Nigella books – I’d been craving some of her books as she is the level of Domestic Goddess I could only dream of becoming! I just love her colourful books & the pretty things she bakes – I am a sucker for pretty sweet things. So when I took the books off the shelf (whilst wedding planning, cooking was the last thing on my mind!) I decided my first venture into Nigella world would be her Chocolate-Cherry Cupcakes.
My husband loves cherries & chocolate so it was quite an obvious first choice. They turned out OK too & when I took them into work as a thank you they went very quickly.