Champagne – have your drink and eat it too!

by ChicCakeChick // May 6, 2014 // 2 Comments

For my last birthday (numbers unmentionable), I was inspired, but maybe a little skeptical to make real the idea of champagne cupcakes. I am a great fan of champagne. It’s really my drink of choice. When I say champagne, I don’t mean just... Continue reading →

S’more s’more s’more

by ChicCakeChick // April 28, 2014 // No Comments

S’mores cookie bars… Being an antipodean, I first learned about s’mores watching American television. To confess, it was an episode of The Bachelor. I thought the name “s’mores” was excruciatingly awful and could only guess at the spelling as I... Continue reading →

Neo Neapolitan

by ChicCakeChick // April 24, 2014 // No Comments

What would Neapolitan ice cream be like if it had more texture? More chocolatey squidgy, more vanillary smooth, more strawberry chunky… more like this strawberry cheesecake brownie… I saw a gorgeous looking strawberry cheesecake brownie recipe on Pinterest a few... Continue reading →

Savouring

by ChicCakeChick // December 24, 2013 // No Comments

Spinach Feta Cupcakes My mother can take cake or leave it and really doesn’t like icing… which makes you wonder where I get my tastes from! Mum is a major fan of the savoury stuff though and I have finally found... Continue reading →

Blueberry Fields – White blueberry cupcakes and blueberry frosting

by ChicCakeChick // September 11, 2013 // 1 Comment

Blueberry Fields is the name of one of the off-piste powder snow stashes at the Hanazono ski area on Mt Niseko-Annupuri in Hokkaido, Japan. The snow there is softer than whipped cream, your skis float through it as you snake... Continue reading →

Dreamy Chocolate Cupcakes (aka Chocolate; death by.)

by ChicCakeChick // September 2, 2013 // No Comments

I don’t know that these dreamy chocolate cupcakes need much of an introduction except to say that I have been looking for a cupcake upon which to place a maraschino cherry for quite some time – there really is nothing like a... Continue reading →

Vanilla Sky – Double Vanilla Cupcakes

by ChicCakeChick // July 29, 2013 // 1 Comment

My eye was well and truly caught the other day by a picture of a vanilla cupcake – the post said that it was a Starbucks recipe. I have never had a Starbucks cupcake, but the specimen in the photo... Continue reading →

Freckleicious

by ChicCakeChick // July 12, 2013 // 1 Comment

There comes a time in a baker’s life where she has seen about the interwebs such culinary hilariousnesses as the Polka Dot Cake and has herself become ready to move into the realms of Very Silly Insides.I’ve done marble cake, and don’t... Continue reading →

Gluten Free is Nutty – Hazelnut Nutella Cupcakes

by ChicCakeChick // July 12, 2013 // 3 Comments

Readers of this blog might have guessed that I don’t normally hold with gluten free. Its kind of a religious position, and for me it is indefensible because of the happy fact that I don’t have to. I posses cells which will synthesise the blessed enzymes which process that most... Continue reading →

Victoriana: An ode to the Victoria Sponge

by ChicCakeChick // October 14, 2010 // No Comments

I’ve been quiet for a little while, chiefly because I went through a (two week) phase where I didn’t feel like making or eating (shock horror!) cake. Back in the saddle again… My reawakening in cake form has come in... Continue reading →

Macaroon Swoon

by ChicCakeChick // September 9, 2010 // No Comments

To be honest, I always thought hand made macaroons were made of coconut and coconut only. Gooey mounds, baked til they are tinged with gold, crunchy on the outside, soft on the inside. If you thought that too, you were... Continue reading →

A little trip to Panama – with substandard insurance!

by ChicCakeChick // August 27, 2010 // No Comments

Chocolate. Rum. Almonds. Could we really ever go wrong?I’ve made a few Victoria sponges in the last week or so and for my mum’s birthday, I thought it would be nice to make a foray into the realms of true... Continue reading →

Raspberry Love

by ChicCakeChick // August 20, 2010 // No Comments

After days if not weeks on raspberry skepticism in the lead up to Wedding Cake Week: – that is the true lust-like WANT of a raspberry cake without any reasonable idea of how to achieve one (a bit like having... Continue reading →

WCW part 2 – The Mixings – 3D Razz

by ChicCakeChick // August 10, 2010 // 1 Comment

Perfecting a cake flavour takes time, patience, a reasonably sophisticated palate, and a pair of running shoes. And a bunch of willing walking talking waste disposal units (aka somewhere to hide the evidence). The running shoes are actually self explanatory.... Continue reading →