Birthday Panda Bear Cupcakes with Russian Buttercream. As you know I’m always looking for fun new cake ideas. Especially when you have your youngest daughter’s birthday to prepare for. She was in charge of picking the design so Panda cupcakes it was. There are a couple of caveats. Although I was a full-time chef for…
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Easter Carrot Cupcakes
Easter Carrot Cupcakes. Lately I’ve been appearing on a regular slot on local BBC radio broadcast in Jersey and Guernsey. You can listen to me chatting each weekend with the lovely Jim Delbridge about seasonal and local food and recipes. Recently researching some ideas for an Easter baking edition I discovered an interesting fact. The…
Completely Batty Chocolate Cupcakes – Halloween Baking
Completely Batty Chocolate Cupcakes Completely Batty Chocolate Cupcakes – Halloween Baking. This week we all went to Jersey Zoo to look at their spooky Bone Museum. Of course, it being Halloween we also spent some time hanging out with the bats. Geddit? The zoo does incredible work saving endangered species and houses 90% of the…
Ghastly Ghosties and Scary Halloween Double Chocolate Cupcakes
Ghastly Ghosties and Scary Halloween Double Chocolate Cupcakes. Do you celebrate Halloween? Yes! Well, when I was little, we celebrated Bonfire night. Maybe a few naughty children in the village threw eggs or played other pranks on Mischief Night. However, no one really celebrated Halloween. Now it is big business with costumes, pumpkin lanterns, and trick or treating for sweets and chocolates. And I have to say I love it.