"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony know as afternoon tea"
~ Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

Monday, 11 October 2010

Buttons Up!

Squires Kitchen are doing a fabulous silocone mould to create little sugar paste buttons (as seen on The Great British Bake Off).  I used it to create these cupcakes for an order to welcome a new baby boy.

Also it was a celebratory weekend in the Ryan household, we are going to be an Aunty and Uncle again......what better reason to break out the cups and saucers and indulge in a spot of tea and cake.......... Matt has told me not to make any more melting moments (he loves them but his waistline cant take any more!!!!).  I say have your cake AND EAT IT!!!!!!


Sunday, 3 October 2010

Rainy Sundays Were Made for Baking!!!!!

What a lovely day!  As the rain pounded the windows we mixed and tasted and laughed and baked, coming up with lots of lovely flavours for our Autumn and Christmas cupcake range.  The new flavours include:

- Spiced cupcakes
- Carrot & orange cupcakes
- Snowflake cucpakes




The big news is that we also perfected some new Cake Pops!!! Litte cakes on a stick from our inspiration across the pond - Bakerella - perfect for little mouths and addictive for bigger ones!!!!!!! 



Forming the yummy pop!





The finished article.....x







Watch out for the following flavours coming to a Christmas Fair near you very soon!!!!!

- Mince pie Cake Pops!
- Chocollate orange Cake Pops!
- Snowman Cake Pops!


Kids LOVE Cake Pops!
We also had a lovely tea party for two very important ladies...... the Childminders who look after our most precious possessions.........




afternoon tea was served at 3 and included the following yummies.......

- Scones with cream and jam
- Coffee kick, chocolate orange and chocolate indulgence cupcakes
- Millionaires shortbread

and of course lashings of tea.................