Just like Mrs Beeton would....

....coming soon..

My own insight into the fabulous Mrs Beeton and my dreams of becoming a domestic goddess just like Isabella did. Making, mending and tending to the servants...all in a days work for a household mistress.

(Just don't expect me to make pigeon pie!)

Let's Get Knitting (or Baking?)

I've been lusting after 'Yarn and Sewing' themed cupcakes and cookies for a while now.

I don't know why and what's brought it on, but Sugar and Meringue's Yarn Ball Cupcakes are so twee that I really am going to have to indulge in some knit-based baking that my Granny would be proud of. You can't leave the blog before 'ahhhing' over their super-cute Button Cookies either. I'm in love.

Having a 'coffee and biscuit' moment recently also meant I stumbled across cookie company, Biscuiteers recipe for knitted cookies in their gorgeous book, the 'Biscuiteers Book of Iced Biscuits' (Buy It) It's full of iced goodness for all occasions and so the fascination continues...

Somehow they just all seem so homely and quintessentially English, and as a non-knitter, it's the closest I'd come to making my own woolly jumper any time soon.

Here's my Top 5 'Knitted' Cookies and Cupcakes...(in no particular order!)

1. Yarn Ball Cupcakes (See the recipe on Sugar and Meringue)

Sugar and Meringue's 'Yarn' Cupcakes

2. Biscuiteers 'Sewing Kit' Biscuits (Visit the gift store or buy the book online to make your own)

Biscuiteer's 'Sewing Kit' Iced Biscuits

3. An ACTUAL knitting patten for a cupcake from Spud & Chloe 

So, you can't actually bake them and yes, I've admitted I can't knit, but I'd love to try and how cute would these delightful knitted cupcakes look on a sweet table at an event? (Get a FREE pattern on the website)

4. Vegan Yum Yum's 'Knit Night' Cupcakes (Visit the Blog or Buy the Book)

These vegan (which gets bonus points from me!) are stunning - and you can see how they are made on You Tube from a demonstration on Martha Stewart HERE. The detail is fabulous and perfect Autumnal and Winter cupcakes...and I do love Marzipan! 

Vegan Knit cupcakes with marzipan 

5. Sewing Machine Cake and Cupcakes from Small Things Iced (Visit the Blog)

To say I'm impressed with the detail and skill on this cake and coordinating cupcakes is an understatement. How amazing is the Singer sewing machine cake and the fabulous pin cushion idea for the cupcakes? There are a few avid seamstresses amongst my family and friends and this cake would be perfect. It'd be a shame to eat it...

Vintage Sewing machine and Pin Cushion Cupcakes

I'm not sure whether I want to bake some knitwear or knit some baking now?

We Heart Cupcakes

So, if you're anything like me and hundreds of other wannabe domestic goddesses out there you'll have totally become whipped up in the frosting frenzy that is the cupcake revolution. 


Checking the book store shelves for the latest, gorgeously designed and photographed and utterly divine recipies has quickly become a favourite pastime of mine and a sneaky taste of 'reject' cupcakes is now a given. 

Not only that, my family and friends have joined the revolution too, talk of cakes, cupcakes, frosting and icing has taken over from gossip of men, shoes and lipsticks (well, maybe!) The mutual love of our sweetly frosted friend has given a whole new slant on the Stepford Wives bake-offs of days gone by and has shot baking bang into the 21st Century. So have the baking bloggers...


My favourite, newest and sweetest blogs is edited by a fantastic friend of mine, Rebecca. Her tasty blog, Cupcake Caven is the place to be for all things cupcake. Her love of baking, and more specifically the decorating and eating of, our little treats is inspiring and Cupcake Caven is a one-stop for all my cupcake needs...you may even see a culinary creation or two of mine in there soon too.

Click the picture to visit Cupcake Cavern

However, her ever-bettering talent also means I need to up my baking game sharpish, so off to the kitchen I go....


http://www.cupcakecavern.com/