The last time I made cupcakes I was knee-high to a grasshopper staring up from my mothers side as she prepared her delicious creations. My mother seemed so tall and magical in her yellow apron, and I think the spell that she weaved in the baking of her cupcakes has meant that cupcakes have always seemed too ethereal a challenge for me to take on. Creating something so perfect in miniature... But then the other day my mother told me she was actually only 5ft 6 and so the spell was broken. Sod it I thought. If a woman of quite average proportions can produce perfection, then at my full 5ft 6 and a half I'll have a darn good shot at it. This is the first attempt and yes your eyes did not deceive you, they are entirely wheat-free. I wouldn't want to exclude the allergics from the cupcake joy or Christina would be most unamused.
Tres Bon or should I say Really Yummy! Love the vanilla cream on top!
Posted by: MARIE | 22 April 2008 at 03:44 AM
Yeah so i ate one of them and i wasn't sick so it must have been ok innit!!!
Posted by: K-Dowg | 22 April 2008 at 03:53 AM
best cup cake i've had in years! Choccy and vanilla is the way forward :-)
Posted by: kirsty | 22 April 2008 at 04:02 AM
You flatter me K-Dowg!
Posted by: Chocolate Eclair | 22 April 2008 at 04:03 AM
I would give it a 9/10 it would have been better if a tad bigger.
As I was hungry.
Posted by: Daniel | 22 April 2008 at 04:10 AM
taste even better than fish!
Posted by: Malin | 22 April 2008 at 06:29 AM
delicious!!!! what a wonderful treat this turned out to be.
Posted by: tea_up_chuck | 22 April 2008 at 06:45 AM
Sooo good i HAD to have three - i love a bun!
Posted by: Christina | 22 April 2008 at 07:05 AM
I enjoyed this, even though it was wheat free and i'm not a fan of all that hippy stuff.
good flavour, balenced well with the toffee sauce. one downside - a little dry and heavy. but they had been baked ages before i got round to tasting
a strong 7 out of 10 (just don't tell my mum)
Posted by: Ali B | 22 April 2008 at 07:17 AM
Lovely! I want MORE!!! :-)
Posted by: Richard | 23 April 2008 at 02:55 AM
I imagined I would never get my tastebuds on one of your legendary cakes, so imagine my surprise when you brought one straight to my desk. This created a splendid cake-consuming atmosphere, and I can only encourage more of this. I went for the banoffee beauty. One of my major concerns with cakes is the ratio of topping to actual cake. This is always my first port of call when judging a cake, whether it's free or not. Your topping passed the test with flying colours. Neither too stingy nor too overwhelming, its consistency ensured I lost none to my lap during consumption. The cake too was lovely. I like wet cakes so I would have made it slightly more moist, but this is personal preference and certainly didn't detract from my experience of your objet d'art. I devoured the cake within 60 seconds. Bravo.
Posted by: Monko | 23 April 2008 at 05:32 AM
Chocolate and vanilla...jesus wept. Too good to be true.
Posted by: Jamie | 24 April 2008 at 01:13 AM