I was sent some nice freebies from the people at American Soda, the American sweet website so I made these fab brownies with the ingredients. There’s a crunchy texture to the top of the brownie, whilst the inside remains slightly gooey – exactly how a brownie should be!
I took the idea of the traditional Eton Mess (fresh cream, meringue and strawberries) but used buttercream. The inside of the cupcake is stripy, which is a nice surprise when you bite into it!
I love the refreshing blend of fruits that you get in Pimm’s: strawberry, cucumber, orange and mint. I’ve been thinking about how best to combine all the flavours into a cupcake and this is the result. The buttercreams all work really well, none of them overpowered each other including the cucumber which I thought would be awful because it’s quite watery.
Summer strawberries, mmm delicious! Making your own strawberry sauce is so incredibly easy, there’s no reason not make it. I loved opening up the cake box and letting the smell of fresh strawberry hit me.
Instead of doing something with Guiness as is traditional on St. Patrick’s Day, I decided to use another Irish drink to whip up some Bailey’s Cupcakes!
I entered a cupcake competition at the weekend and the theme was music. I didn’t have any ideas in mind so I asked my twitter friends for ideas and one of them came up with the idea!
I’ve been looking for a very special chocolate cake recipe for a while – one that actually tastes chocolatey. The recipes I have suggest putting a tablespoon of cocoa powder in a normal victoria sponge but this never ever tastes good to me! This recipe doesn’t use any raising agent surprisingly and comes from The Telegraph from many years ago.