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COST PRICE CAKE: Chinese New Year Cupcakes
Sunday, February 14th, 2010
Each flavour is available as a box of 6. As usual, cost price cakes are sold on a first come, first served basis.
Vanilla cupcakes with sweet red bean paste filling and vanilla buttercream
Green tea and pomegranate cupcakes with white chocolate frosting
Benjamin the bashful robot
Saturday, February 13th, 2010
COST PRICE CAKE – Vanilla Sponge Cake with Raspberry Jam and Buttercream filling in ‘Garden’ design with Marzipan bugs
Monday, February 8th, 2010
Just a simple Victoria Sponge cake underneath this icing. The idea was to try out the big, bold ‘garden’ design as a home for my marzipan bugs.
Cost price cakes are sold on a first come, first served basis.
THIS CAKE HAS NOW SOLD
Vanilla cupcakes with passion-fruit curd filling and white chocolate frosting
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
As you may have already noticed, I am quite excited about filled cupcakes at the moment. The idea for this one came about when my fiance ordered a passion-fruit curd pavlova at a restaurant and while I am not the biggest fan of meringues, the passion-fruit curd was tasty enough to start me thinking about making it myself. I guessed that using my trusty lemon curd recipe, substituting 2 passion-fruits for every one lemon and reducing the sugar content a bit would be all it took. Happily I was right and the passion-fruit curd worked first time. Choosing a frosting took a little more thought. After deciding that passion-fruit icing would be a little too much, I looked for something that wouldn’t overpower the relatively subtle flavour of the passion-fruit but that was also able to bring it’s own dimension to the finished cupcake. I liked the idea of using white chocolate frosting for several reasons. Firstly, it has a mild but distinctive flavour. Secondly, it’s creamy/white colour appealed to me as an aesthetic finishing touch to the cupcake, and thirdly, it is a tried and tested recipe so I could be certain of exactly what it would taste like and I imagined the flavours working well together. And they did!
While the cupcake went well with my morning cup of tea, it actually has puddingy qualities that could allow it to work well as an after dinner cupcake. An individual serving alternative to slicing a gateaux.
Marzipan Monsters
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Meet Fred – he is the prototype and is in fact made from left over sugarpaste rather than marzipan (it was a little dry so the joins are not as smooth as I would like). Fred was the result of idle doodles and a brainwave to turn them into edible decorations. Others soon followed.
Why, you ask, are the penguins looking askance at their surroundings? Because they have just spotted Nigel and his brethren advancing upon them…
…and they look hungry!
When I get some more free time, I am hoping to increase the collection. I have already made some doodles, I just need to translate them into an edible medium.
Rainbow Cupcakes
Friday, December 11th, 2009A story in pictures
Some shrewd readers may notice that this last picture differs somewhat in quality from my usual shots. It is in fact courtesy of the customer, the very talented Alice. The original, and the rest of Alice’s flickr stream can be found here – Only Alice
Mixed Berry Marble Pocky
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009On every level I have always found pocky much more appealing than other biscuits and these beautiful pink specimens with their love heart adorned packaging were no exception. I can never say no to a flavour of pocky I have never seen before and these don’t disappoint. Pleasingly they look exactly like the picture on the packet – something that food all too often fails to live up to – and taste smooth sweet and yogurty. Mmmm. Love in biscuit form.
Sweet Potato Kit-Kat
Monday, November 23rd, 2009The picture doesn’t really convey quite how yellow this Kit-Kat is. It’s very presence brightens up my desk. Taste-wise, it is an interesting experience. The overriding flavour is that of the wafer biscuit but there are creamy hints of sweet potato and another tangy flavour I can’t quite identify which prevents it from being too sickly. However, if I hadn’t seen the package, I’m not sure I would be able to guess what flavour it was. It put me more in mind of McVitie’s Gold biscuits than of sweet potatoes.
Sweet Bean Mini Kit-Kat
Monday, November 9th, 2009I’m currently working on a red bean paste cupcake but can’t quite make a decision on the frosting. The cupcake itself is going to be a vanilla bean sponge filled with red bean paste but as for the frosting there are so many choices. Vanilla bean, red bean, dark chocolate, mango buttercream, coconut buttercream, crushed pineapple cream cheese frosting, green tea/macha . How to choose?! Perhaps the only solution is to make them all in the smallest possible batches and taste test them. One thing I have learned from this little Kit-Kat is that too much sweetness can be a bad thing. While the aftertaste is pleasantly beany , the initial flavour is cloyingly sweet with flowery undertones that I’m not too fond of. Worth trying, but I won’t miss it terribly once it has gone.
