♥bakers

Tuesday, 7 September 2010

If you befriend a ♥baker...

A friend of mine came over to London for a visit.

as a ♥baker i thought it only fit for me to feed her something sweet and maybe something chocolaty.

So I made her some individual sized sloppy apple tarts and my very best massive slab of chocolates held together delicately with cookie dough and salt that makes you go haaaaaaaahhahahahaagggh when you have one, if I may say so myself.

Here's a little peek at what she got.

Sneaky little tip for making gorgeous tasting pie, slobber lots of butter on top before it goes in the oven, and it becomes... browned butter which tastes nutty, and above all, amazing!

HOUSE

If you'd been wondering what we were up to for the last couple of weeks as you know we've been supplying our local House Gallery and cafe with some goodies. So no, we haven't stopped baking, but have rather slowed down a bit, because great things are about to happen to the ♥bakers! (Soon to be revealed!)

In the meanwhile here's a couple of very long overdue updates from when we made a lemon tart for house, and some scrummy vanilla cupcakes. Take note of the chocolate brushed layer at the bottom which makes it not only taste amazing but also look really pretty when sliced.

Cupcakes as usual but with some cute casings that ♥baker K has found!

More news to come..!

Thursday, 15 July 2010

Hello Mr. Frangipane

We took a sample box of cupcakes and brownies to some cafes a while ago, so that they could taste how scrumptious they are and flood us with orders. And it's started to happen!!

House which is a small art gallery + cafe, on Camberwell Church Street, is going to try opening in the evenings, and they wanted more dessert-like baked goods to accompany the new opening hours. So we are going to supply them with a selection of tarts.

We've baked various pies and tarts before but we wanted to try this gorgeous recipe out, for a pear and almond tart, or pear frangipane tart, as I like to call it.

Katie and I couldn't agree on which pear to put in the tart. I wanted to put in conference pears, and Katie wanted to use dessert pears... so we mixed them up. Once poached in syrup they were both squidgy and nice but conference pears came out yellow and transparent, and dessert pears came out more opaque and creamy coloured. But we can tell you that they both work equally well. (or my choice works better)

So next week we'll be baking the same tart for House Gallery for the 23rd, if we can agree on a pear to use. If you're in the neighbourhood, you should pop in and have a slice, and tell us what you think!

cd ROM + a BOUT birthday cupcakes

Yesterday ♥bakers' friend Rombout turned 27!

A few friends were gathering at a local pub to go to a pub quiz and we combined it with happy celebrations for his birthday. And it wouldn't have made sense if we didn't make cake for a birthday.

Considering how it would have to be eaten whilst a quiz is going on and etc, we decided to make our oh so chocolaty cupcakes, and top it off with some boozy whipped cream made with some mascarpone cheese.

Happy Birthday Rombout!

Sunday, 4 July 2010

3rd of July, Fair on the Green

This past saturday, ♥bakers were at the Fair on the Green on Parson's Green.

After a whole day of baking on Friday, and a frantic night of packing, Katie left for Finland to go to a wedding, leaving me in charge with very many notes, and her body double/sister, Cleo, to man the stall at the fair.

With half of the ♥bakers missing, I get to upload pictures and ramble on with many a grammatical and spelling mistakes. Hurrah!

Cleo was an excellent sales woman, and you could hardly tell the difference that it was Cleo (not Katie) from the back!

We had many positive feedback from the customers, on the quality of our cakes and the display of our stall! Many returned and brought their friends, and we even had a few customers who remembered us from last year, coming back for more of the raspberry brownies and passion fruit cupcakes.

On the drive back after the fair finished, I had a tray of left over cakes on my lap. When we stopped at a traffic light at vauxhall bridge, a scooter pulled up next to us, and a girl on the back seat spotted the cakes and was pointing and screaming at our cakes. So I rolled my window down and handed one to her! As they drove away, she shouted 'you've made my day!!!'. That's what we like to hear :).

Here are some photos from the fair. My only regret is not having a better documentation of some of the masterpieces that Katie created while sprinkling the cupcakes with her artistic talent...