pretty little sweet things
Sweet little bites
It may just be because I am bored, but I have the urge to do something very girlie that I have never done before.
I would like to got with a couple of female friends and learn how to make gorgeous little cupcakes with cutesie frosting, or perfect little macarons of various flavours.
I’m not a baker. I’m a pretty bloody good cook, but can’t follow recipes generally, and the science of baking has always totally freaked me out – it’s so damn precise. And I don’t do precise. I guess I’m a natural rebel.
But gorgeous little cupcakes are just…well, gorgeous. And macarons are just so delicate and perfect looking in their awesome yummy sandwichness.
The trouble is that I believe it’s pretty expensive to go to a macaron making class – the only ones I know of are at the wonderful L’atelier des chefs, that I went to last month (and loved!!) but I wasn’t paying, and the macaron making classes are every saturday, but cost £72!! And they always seem to be sold out well in advance, so they must be popular!
Cupcakes would be my second choice, but I wouldn’t even know where to start looking for classes.
If I had a bigger kitchen, I would suggest my friends coming round to me and us just making them from recipes, but it’s not an option. I have a galley kitchen that is a squeeze to get two people into – not really good for a ‘class’.
I think I need friends with big kitchens…which I’m probably not really going to get in London, LOL.
Anyway – if anyone knows of decent, reasonably-priced macaron classes, or even cupcake decorating classes – please do let me know!
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Well….I don’t know about classes, but I do know that the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook is pretty awesome!
Have you cooked from it? Is it easy to follow?
well, it just so happens that Mollybakes runs cupcake decorating classes. She has a stall at the Sunday Upmarket and I have to say they are some of the tastiest cupcakes I’ve ever tasted!
Her classes are held at the Tea Room which I think is around Finchley? You can find her at http://www.mollybakes.co.uk and she’s on twitter @mollybakes and she’s lovely (because she delivers to my office if I ask nicely and takes my order via twitter for collection too!)
I’ve never been to the Sunday Upmarket…i’ll have to look that one up. is it EVERY sunday?