I decided to make marshmallow cupcakes yesterday nite to cheer me up (see previous post).
I came upon this recipe when I was browsing The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook by Tarek Malouf and The Hummingbird Bakers. Now if you have not heard about Hummingbird, you should! Especially if you’re into cupcakes. I believe it’s American and it has several branches in London. But it is VERY FAMOUS for its cupcakes.
Anyhow back to my attempt to cheer myself up.
So after dinner I started making the cupcakes. Marshmallow and cupcakes are definitely my all time favourite junk food (right on top of the list!). Therefore I thought the sugar high will lift my spirit. One bite from the cupcakes and I thought I could have instantly become diabetic! It was WAAAYYYY too sweet for my liking (and I’m a person who likes her sweet desserts!). Imagine I didnt even follow the full recipe, it will be even sweeter if I had melted the marshmallow and poured it into the cupcakes.
If you’re interested to try, you can get the recipe here.
Mixing the marshmallow with the frosting. Never again will I make anything with frosts.
End product. Excuse the picture quality. I was using my iPhone.
If you do not know who that is, please go and watch SATC!
To be honest, I’ve never been a big fan of the HBO series until I moved to London and got close to AA. Since then, the series’ creator has made 2 movies. I enjoyed the first movie very much and was very impressed by how there was a twist to the story line. Now the second movie came out earlier this year and I noticed it has a bad review. I didnt have a chance to watch it with the girls in London due to all the business trips I was on. Plus Dav would never go and watch it with me.
Few months after the movie premier I totally forgot about the movie until I saw it in HMV yesterday. So I make a note to remind myself that I must watch it! So finally today I watched it for the very first time.
My verdict, I totally LOVE it!
The reason why I like it is not because of the fashion or the drama. But because I can totally relate to Carrie, for the first time. I totally agree with her on how it is up to you and your partner to decide how to make the marriage works. Whether it is 2 days off each week, live apart with occasional visits or maybe sleep in separate rooms!! I personally feel that society has pressured a lot of us into living a certain way and get frown upon when you’re not following the normal path / trend.
Dav and I have been true to ourselves in having a marriage the way we want it to be. We create our own tradition and make changes as we see fit.
As Carrie said at the end of the movie, “You have to take the tradition, and decorate it your way.”
Last Wed, a colleague decided to arrange to go for afternoon tea after work at The Wolseley. Now this is the second time I’m going to afternoon tea in a week. It’s never enough really… hahahaha
The food is served in a 3 tier tray but cant be refilled. They have really cute tea pots and the atmosphere is great. I would definitely recommend this place. The price is really reasonable too!
Love the macaroon dipped in chocolate.
My tea set.
Another cute little tea pot. Can’t believe they serve teas in different types of teapots.
I saw a friend baked marble cake and posted a pic of it in Facebook. That made me wanna try it too. Luckily Rachel Allen’s bake book has a recipe for it. As usual, I modified the recipe slightly to cater for the ingredients I have at home, instead of buying new ingredients. Basically instead of using cocoa powder, I used melted chocolate. It was relatively easy until I had to make the ‘marble’ effect.
The cake turn out well and quite yummy. Dav took half the cake to office and all his colleagues loved it.
I woud say that’s a success!
Fresh out of the oven.
Can’t really see the ‘marble’ effect.
Dav’s colleagues said it was good. No wonder nothing left. 
Next attempt may be pizza or bread.