January market

Another freeeezing weekend at the market! We had our own little sale to keep the January blues away.

Not-very-seasonal Lemon and Poppy Seed cupcakes

We made these very un-wintery cupcakes kind of by mistake-ish. The origional plan was to bake apple and cinnamon (much more cosy) cakes for the market, but though they tasted great, they did not look pretty. Far too much muffin top for a dainty little cupcake - a bit like the cupcake's ugly step sister. Or a cross breed - half muffin, half some sort of crazy scone. Anyway. I should have just taken a picture.
After a quick look in the cupboard and a stumble upon this topnotch lemon curd, the lemon and poppy seed cupcake 2009 was born. A moist, tangy, sweet, delicious little treat.
I'm afraid we can't take all the credit for this recipe however. This cake was origionally created by a Mrs Sarah Flavell - excellent cake baker and even better graphic designer (she made the lovely i love cake logo). Sorry Sarah! The secret's safe with us ;)

New Year cupcakes

We took these to the Pitsillos' New Year's 80's extravaganza of a party. We like to think they went down a treat but we can't remember.....

Happy New Year and see you at Manchester Farmer's Market on 9th and 10th Jan.

Christmas Eve yeah!

Actually it's not Christmas Eve at all - we're a little behind with these last few posts. Got a bit tangled up with Christmas and all that and suddenly it's 2009! Happy New Year!
Anyway, where was I. Here is our last batch of cupcakes all boxed up and ready to go. Finally phew!

A Glorious Christmas

These cakes were specially made for Glorious Creative to send to their clients as Christmas presents. They chose gold cases for some extra pazzaz.

Apologies for the tacky title on this post - whenever I tried to think of anything else it just kept springing back to mind. Terrible.

Rainy Manchester Market

Our second market in Manchester and it rained. I suppose we could have predicted that.

Anyway it didn't spoil the fun - my feet were a bit unhappy and cold but that was all sorted with some woolly socks (thank you Andy Jane).

We had some very generous swaps to take home - thank you the butcher stall for the pheasants and the florist for the flowers! Please come and get some free cakes next month x

And to the customer who left the sirloin steaks - we're so sorry you didn't come back! Really! Though they were delicious :)

My lovely flowers (and a non-cake picture just because)

Christmas at Knutsford Market

Brrrrr!! It was a cold start to the weekend for i love cake. Wrapped in as many layers as we could manage without disabling ourselves, we set off for Knutsford Farmers Market (in the dark - eek) . It was a chilly old day but the sun shone and after a good few cups of tea we were ready for action.

This months earnings went on tea, tea....a nice hot cup of tea, a delicious pain au raisin from the bread stall and a most delicious indeed steak and ale pie, which I have just polished off with a dollop of mash and a big glass of wine (to keep out the cold of course).

Anyway aren't we meant to be talking about cakes?

Don't forget we will be at Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester next Friday and Saturday. Please come and keep us busy or we might just freeze to death!