Flavour of the month: Toffee Apple

The traditional tastes of Guy Fawkes - jacket spuds, bonfire ash and, of course, toffee apples.

This month's flavour has already been tested on an unsuspecting public at the Wivey Carnival in September (when it was made with apples gifted from next door) and it went down a storm.

The cake is a deliciously moist apple sponge, made with muscovado sugar for extra toffeeness, topped with a toffee brown butter icing and suitably firework-esque bronze and gold glitters. November in a red cupcake case.

PS Happy birthday Mum!

New flavour: Elderflower

The elderflowers are finally out, which gives me the opportunity to play with another new flavour for June. It's a basic cupcake sponge recipe minus vanilla, which would overpower the elderflower, with elderflower cordial for flavouring. I think this still needs a bit of work - the flavour perhaps too subtle in the sponge? - but the elderflower butter cream is such a pretty pure white!

First Wivey Market sale

I've been having a well earned rest this afternoon after my first Wivey Market sale (plus a bit of tea and cake of course). All went well and I sold 40 cupcakes in total, which was not bad at all for three hours on a drizzly Somerset morning. Not quite enough to be giving up the day job just yet, but one has to start somewhere!

The punters' favourite flavours were Chocolate Chocolate (popular with those who planned to eat immediately!) and Luscious Lemon (sold out!). The WI ladies confirmed that lemon is often the most popular cake choice (followed by ginger, so I can sense a new recipe coming on...). Delectable Date 'n' Walnut obviously didn't look delectable enough, so I'll need a new flavour for next month's sale anyway. I also didn't need to take as many Very Vanilla, which I thought would be more popular, and they looked so pretty in their spotty cases (thanks Ann!).

All in all not a bad day's work, and at least we have plenty of neighbours willing to eat the leftovers...