New Summer Flavour – The “Eatin’ Mess”
I picked up the most delicious, juicy, bright red strawberries at the organic market this weekend. After a week in London and loving all things English, including Wimbledon, I used a quintessential English dessert to inspire my new cupcakes. What happens when the Eton Mess meets Nomzilla? You get: Eatin’ Mess! It’s a vanilla bean cupcake topped with fresh vanilla-infused whipped cream, studded with fresh berries and a homemade raspberry coulis PLUS fresh-baked crushed meringues. YUM.
The taste of summer
New Flavour! Meet the Drunk & Salty
I recently attended one of Edible Europe’s Ghetto-gether’s hosted by The Kitchen here in Amsterdam. It’s basically a monthly (kind of) potluck of like-minded foodies in the city, and the host changes each time. And it’s awesome. The theme of the last one was “Bring your Sunday Best”. Lately, my Sunday best has been trying out new cupcake recipes. I’ve been dying to make some salted caramel and thought “why not make it a cupcake!” So here is the newest Nomzilla flavour.
Meet the Drunk & Salty:
- A little sweet, a little salty and a little bourbon.
It’s a classic Chocoholic with a warm oaky Bourbon undertone. The buttercream…oh my god. It’s damn good. A ultra-smooth salted caramel buttercream dotted with flecks of vanilla seeds. Sprinkled with a few crystals of Maldon’s sea salt and a chocolate curl. DROOOOOOOOL.
You can find all my flavours here.
Mini Wedding Cupcakes
I was super thrilled to cater 200 mini cupcakes for a wedding for two lovely gentleman a couple weeks ago. They came over for a tasting and wanted all the flavours I made for them: Lemon Bombs, Peach and Blackberry Thyme, Lemon Raspberry and Chocoholic Strawberry.
They’ve emailed me a photo of the cupcakes being served. Thanks Stefan and Matthew and congratulations!
A tray of mini NOMS
New Spring Flavours!
How awesome has the weather been this spring? You can see the result of this in the produce at your local market. Everything seems to to be coming up much earlier. To celebrate, I’ve added a couple new (seasonal) flavours to the Nomzilla repetoire.
Spring flavours featuring fresh seasonal fruit
These were for a tasting I did for an upcoming wedding. Can you spot the new flavours?
Check out the Flavours page for a hint!
Gin & Tonic Cupcake
One of my favourite summer cocktails, okay, let’s face it, an all-year-long cocktail is the gin and tonic. So, I made it into a cupcake:
A drunk cupcake
A moist gin-infused cupcake, drizzled with a lime-infused gin reduction, topped with a tonic and lime cream cheese frosting. Topped with a curl of fresh lime peel, of course.
It’s Royal Wedding Day!
Well done to all my friends across the pond who get to enjoy the day off today to watch Prince William and Kate Middleton get hitched. Unfortunately, the Brits here have to work. But that’s okay, ’cause cupcakes reign supreme!
It was painstaking work cutting out teeny tiny bits of marzipan for the Union Jacks.
Tiny scroll initials, WK, set on ivory filigree-printed marzipan with a flash of sparkle.
So, will you be watching the wedding on TV today?
Mini Chocoholics and Auntie’s Carrot Cake
An order of mini Chocoholics and Auntie’s Carrot cake for a birthday. Super cute and suuuuuper lekker.
mini bites of YUM
Introducing Seamus O’Shaughnessy!
In honour of St. Patrick’s Day and all wonderful things Irish, I’ve crafted a signature flavour for today: The Seamus O’Shaughnessy!
Baileys, Guinness, and Jameson - oh yeah.
You can read more about the recipe, and my transportation failure – on my blog.
New Flavour!
Oh my. Let me tell you, this buttercream is exquisite. Maple and pecan – a taste of Canada. Meet the Maple, eh:
This beautiful cupcake has graduated to the Flavours page!