Do I ever not want to make cupcakes?
Happy Birthday Jolanda & Merit!
Love and cupcakes,
Noes
Monday, November 14, 2011
Birthday Girls
This week, two of my colleagues wanted to celebrate their birthdays at work and as a treat they asked me to make the cupcakes if I wanted to.
Do I ever not want to make cupcakes?
Happy Birthday Jolanda & Merit!
Love and cupcakes,
Noes
Do I ever not want to make cupcakes?
Happy Birthday Jolanda & Merit!
Love and cupcakes,
Noes
Friday, November 11, 2011
My cupcakes bring all the boys to the yard
And I brought the yard to the cupcakes!
At the Wilton decorating course I took, we practiced several decorating methods with buttercream frosting. Unfortunately the last lesson of the course, were we would make a rose out of buttercream, was at the same time as my trip to London so I had to miss that one.
Since I was still curious about the outcome, I studied the example for a minute and put it to the test.
I still had some very cute cupcake wrappers looking like a white picket fence, so some other cupcakes became a field of green grass with little dropflowers.
Love and cupcakes,
Noes
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
London part 2: Omigod you guys!
Day two in London was shopping day!
You can shop around all day in Oxford and Regent street so that's exactly what we did. First stop was Primark which was a good idea because already a few minutes after we arrived, the store started to fill up with customers, a little to packed for us.
So after finding some fun, cheap things we moved on to Topshop, Forever 21, New Look, French Connection, Jane Norman, Aldo, Next, Zara, River Island, Uniqlo and many, many more.
These are just a few cute things we bought.
In between we went to Leicester Square to see if we could get tickets for a musical for the same night, there were still several musicals available but the choice wasn't too hard: Legally Blonde!
After getting our tickets we realised it was also time to begin looking for a place to lunch, we ended up at The Long Acre where I had a beef burger and my sister a BLT sandwich.
After lunch we got back to Oxford street to shop where later we took a short break at Joe & The Juice
We continued shopping until we had to carry on towards the Savoy Theatre for Legally Blonde.
The musical was a great spin-off of the orginal first movie, just as fun a version but with more music and dance but still with our little friends Bruiser and Rufus (Paulette's dog).
Unfortunately I couldn't find any good quality videos of the musical with the cast we had, but still OMIGOD you guys!
The next day we had lunch planned at Jamie's Italian at Convent Garden, so after a goodbye visit to Hummingbird Bakery we took the underground there.
This time I chose a black bottom cupcake and coffee to go and since it was still a quiet morning, we could still make some pictures of the bakery and talk to the staff. I miss you already Hummingbird!
Naturally we did some more shopping around Covent Garden since it wasn't by far time for lunch yet, but then we ran into a dear friend.
If you suddenly see this kind of friend you can't just pass by and ignore, so we had some tea and macarons (praline and caramel).
After a while we headed to the location of the restaurant and luckily, there's no way to miss it.
We had a table in the corner of the restaurant, at the window, so there's always something to see and the style of the restaurant was exactly right for Jamie Oliver.
We started with some anipasta followed by panzerotti and risotto, sooo good!
Basically these meals would be more than enough for lunch but there is just no way you can leave Jamie's Italian or even London itself without having a taste of one of the deserts.
Good thing we chose to share a tiramisu because never in my life have I seen such a enormous piece, but it was certainly delicious. Almost like Pim's (small cookies with chocolate and orange) because of the orange zest on top!
After our amazing lunch we had to be on our way to catch a train back to the Airport to be in time. Time went by way to fast so I was sad to leave but since I love London even more now, I'll be back soon.
Love x,
Noes
You can shop around all day in Oxford and Regent street so that's exactly what we did. First stop was Primark which was a good idea because already a few minutes after we arrived, the store started to fill up with customers, a little to packed for us.
So after finding some fun, cheap things we moved on to Topshop, Forever 21, New Look, French Connection, Jane Norman, Aldo, Next, Zara, River Island, Uniqlo and many, many more.
In between we went to Leicester Square to see if we could get tickets for a musical for the same night, there were still several musicals available but the choice wasn't too hard: Legally Blonde!
After getting our tickets we realised it was also time to begin looking for a place to lunch, we ended up at The Long Acre where I had a beef burger and my sister a BLT sandwich.
After lunch we got back to Oxford street to shop where later we took a short break at Joe & The Juice
We continued shopping until we had to carry on towards the Savoy Theatre for Legally Blonde.
The musical was a great spin-off of the orginal first movie, just as fun a version but with more music and dance but still with our little friends Bruiser and Rufus (Paulette's dog).
Unfortunately I couldn't find any good quality videos of the musical with the cast we had, but still OMIGOD you guys!
The next day we had lunch planned at Jamie's Italian at Convent Garden, so after a goodbye visit to Hummingbird Bakery we took the underground there.
This time I chose a black bottom cupcake and coffee to go and since it was still a quiet morning, we could still make some pictures of the bakery and talk to the staff. I miss you already Hummingbird!
Naturally we did some more shopping around Covent Garden since it wasn't by far time for lunch yet, but then we ran into a dear friend.
If you suddenly see this kind of friend you can't just pass by and ignore, so we had some tea and macarons (praline and caramel).
After a while we headed to the location of the restaurant and luckily, there's no way to miss it.
We had a table in the corner of the restaurant, at the window, so there's always something to see and the style of the restaurant was exactly right for Jamie Oliver.
We started with some anipasta followed by panzerotti and risotto, sooo good!
Basically these meals would be more than enough for lunch but there is just no way you can leave Jamie's Italian or even London itself without having a taste of one of the deserts.
Good thing we chose to share a tiramisu because never in my life have I seen such a enormous piece, but it was certainly delicious. Almost like Pim's (small cookies with chocolate and orange) because of the orange zest on top!
After our amazing lunch we had to be on our way to catch a train back to the Airport to be in time. Time went by way to fast so I was sad to leave but since I love London even more now, I'll be back soon.
Love x,
Noes
Sunday, November 06, 2011
London part 1: Sun is in the sky, oh why would I wanna be anywhere else
Me and one of my sisters took a trip to lovely London this past week.
We arrived in the city center on Monday morning after quite a quick flight and train ride. We both have been to London before so except for a few classics we decided to skip the sight seeing and move on to our main goal: shopping.
With the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge on our route we went to Butlers Wharf where we had, loyal to the classics, fish & chips for lunch at Browns.
After lunch it was a good time to check in to our hotel, drop off the luggage and actually start shopping. Because there wasn't enough time left that day to start on shopping heaven, Oxford street, we went to another classic: Harrods.
On our way out we discovered that the South Kensington location of my favorite bakery, Humming Bakery, was actually very close to the location of our hotel. Naturally I had to make a little detour and visit.
We had a strawberry milkshake cupcake and drinks outside the bakery before moving on and it really did taste like strawberry milkshake, so good. The bakery itself looked absolutely adorable too so if I would fail at finding another job, I'm going to fly over there and happily work in this stylish pink bakery.
Harrods itself is a place you can walk around for hours before you've seen everything; high end designer bags, make-up and perfume, fashion, food, gifts, toys and even an animal kingdom on the top floor with chiuaua's but there's more to see on Brompton Road.
So after finishing Harrods we also went to the biggest Topshop of London, Harvey Nichols and French Connection before going to dinner.
We did make quite a few miles walking around all day so we went looking for a nice restaurant near our hotel and found Wild Wood. Because the fish & chips where actually a pretty big meal for lunch, we each chose a salad.
Since I recently bought a new camera, one with a specific option for food pictures, I had planned to make pictures of everything we would eat during our time in London, unfortunately I forgot to make one of our desert at Wild Wood: a white chocolate cheesecake with raspberry coulis. Delicious!
By the time we left the restaurant we were both exhausted, we got up at 6 to catch our plane and walked around all day, so we called it a day and went back to our hotel to make plans for the next day and get some rest.
More London in the next post!
Love and cupcakes,
Noes
We arrived in the city center on Monday morning after quite a quick flight and train ride. We both have been to London before so except for a few classics we decided to skip the sight seeing and move on to our main goal: shopping.
With the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge on our route we went to Butlers Wharf where we had, loyal to the classics, fish & chips for lunch at Browns.
After lunch it was a good time to check in to our hotel, drop off the luggage and actually start shopping. Because there wasn't enough time left that day to start on shopping heaven, Oxford street, we went to another classic: Harrods.
On our way out we discovered that the South Kensington location of my favorite bakery, Humming Bakery, was actually very close to the location of our hotel. Naturally I had to make a little detour and visit.
We had a strawberry milkshake cupcake and drinks outside the bakery before moving on and it really did taste like strawberry milkshake, so good. The bakery itself looked absolutely adorable too so if I would fail at finding another job, I'm going to fly over there and happily work in this stylish pink bakery.
Harrods itself is a place you can walk around for hours before you've seen everything; high end designer bags, make-up and perfume, fashion, food, gifts, toys and even an animal kingdom on the top floor with chiuaua's but there's more to see on Brompton Road.
So after finishing Harrods we also went to the biggest Topshop of London, Harvey Nichols and French Connection before going to dinner.
We did make quite a few miles walking around all day so we went looking for a nice restaurant near our hotel and found Wild Wood. Because the fish & chips where actually a pretty big meal for lunch, we each chose a salad.
Since I recently bought a new camera, one with a specific option for food pictures, I had planned to make pictures of everything we would eat during our time in London, unfortunately I forgot to make one of our desert at Wild Wood: a white chocolate cheesecake with raspberry coulis. Delicious!
By the time we left the restaurant we were both exhausted, we got up at 6 to catch our plane and walked around all day, so we called it a day and went back to our hotel to make plans for the next day and get some rest.
More London in the next post!
Love and cupcakes,
Noes
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