I’m now four and a half weeks away from finishing my Patisserie classes (time flies)! I have rather enjoyed it all, but have to say that it really has taken a lot out of me – mainly because its eight hours a day of being bombarded with information. I know that working with food when [...]

As promised, I’m back to tell you more about how I put together all of the dessert bar food! Chocolate Balls These originated from a recipe by my Mum, from a friend, from her Mum, from a website. It has morphed and changed over the “passing down” but are really tasty! It reminds me of [...]

Just a quick note to let you know that as of today I’ve finished my fundamentals work so you should expect more Patisserie related posts from Monday onwards! For those of you who follow my pursuits and projects beyond this blog, you will know that I put together a High Tea for charity as part [...]

In the last… eight weeks, I have not had much time for anything else except for just trucking along with life. I moved house not once, but twice – luckily I had not set up all my stuff after the first move, but it was still very tiring. I will move again later this year [...]

Have you seen this lately on TV? If you’re a regular reader or a friend of mine, I am sure that when you saw this you wondered if I had done of these. Yeah, I do. Hahahahahaha. I think one of my favourite things about loving all this cupcake gear and baking is that whenever someone [...]

Last night I decided to finally go ahead and try the giant cupcake. Here’s some things I learned: Even though they make it look flawless, no cake is going to rise perfectly flat for this cupcake. Trimming may be required. You need to put more than you think in the base part. A mix with [...]

For people who might have been wondering (at this stage you’re telling me “No! I wasn’t!”) how many cupcake things I actually own, I thought I’d do a bit of a feature post and show you all the things mainly near me that are cupcake related. This week I have spent a lot of money [...]

I have been promising this recipe for a long time, and I just wanted to share with you the reason why it hasn’t yet made it here. When you look through all the red velvet recipes on the internet, what do you see? A dark red, moist looking cake base. Unfortunately I’m missing the “dark [...]