Warning: these cupcakes are well LUSH!
Going over the top? It did occur to me that that might happen, but I wanted to recreate the Japanese dorayaki. Sweet flat pancakes with a sweet paste filling, ranging from red bean to green tea to peanut, these pancakes were the love of my life in high school. Easy […]

I am a wally brain. The white buttercream you see was originally meant to be cinnamon flavoured, but idiot that I was - I’d forgotten about it completely only at the moment I’d piped it onto the cupcakes! But it turned out good because it kept things simple. The next disappointment was the almost-unnecessary addition […]

I’ve been planning a birthday present for a very special friend of mine and have been thinking about when I’d last visited London with my parents. Somehow, I started associating my thoughts with the Hummingbird Bakery. Situated amidst Portobello Market, this bakery has done very well for itself that it opened its second store in […]

You’re probably wondering why this post is even here when we could be ploughing through the Festival of Chocolate. And I’m ashamed to admit my system is slightly plugged up with way too much chocolate. It’s as though I’m inside a bubble, heavy-headed and clogged up with Minstrels, mini eggs, Divine Chocolate, Green & Blacks, […]