Oh so British teatime at La Cocotte on the 29th June 2008. Everyone had a hand on making their own scones, a demonstration on the Art of drinking tea (and how to drink it correctly) and of course a proper teatime with china cups, jam, clotted cream and scones fresh out of the oven.
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Tags: Teatime
Hand me those cupcakes, I need my sugar fix! Well, it certainly feels like that there are a whole load of cupcake junkies out there at the moment. A couple of weeks ago I mentioned that everybody in Paris is cupcake crazy. Well the proof has definetly been in eating the pudding! So much so that I’m doing another “Pimp my cupcake” session. It’s already booked up with a waiting list. Wahey!
Tags: 7 minute icing, Cupcakes in Paris, Fluffy, Icing
Cupcake pimping sessions at La Cocotte. First one started on the 15th May 2008. So popular that there were not 1, not 2 but 3 sessions!
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Tags: Cupcakes in Paris
You say tomatoe (just imagine the yankee accent 
) I say tomato (and a brit one here). The same could go for cupcakes or as us Brits call them fairy cakes. I was doing some research for my next cookery class. The theme is cupcakes which is all the rage in Paris and I found a few interesting titbits…
According to the “The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America”, cupcakes were originally just small cakes minus the icing, that came in the 1950s. The “cup” derived from two origins:
1. The switch from weighing to using cup measurements in the 19th century American households.
2. The practice of baking in small containers or cups. Large cakes were often burnt in the the hearth ovens.
Brits use the term “fairy cakes”, as you normally scoop out the top, fill that with buttercream and jam and then cut the top into two wings which you place on top. Hence them looking slightly fairy like. I would normally call those butterfly cakes and all the plain iced cakes, fairy cakes.
Anyway, at the end of the day they taste delicious and bring back memories of sticky little fingers at birthday parties (well, that is if you had an anglophone childhood).
Tags: cupcakes, fairy cakes, pimp my cupcake
My first cookery workshop at La Cocotte on the 24th April 2008. The students were in for a treat with a tips on how to make the perfect muffin. Muffins on the menu: very berry, dulcheese (dulce de leche & cream cheese), triple chocolate, sweetcorn & gucamole savoury muffin.
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