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Ms Cupcake arrives on Coldharbour Lane, Brixton

It's the ludicrously baroque and overabundant icing that I have a problem. All that fuss for something that's over in a matter of seconds

and paying a couple of quid for the privilege. I'd get more satisfaction out of a chocolate eclair for half the price
 
She is some post-feminist fetishistic 50's housewife, I prefer the laboratory fire-bombing vegans of yesteryear but I'm a bit of a traditionalist.
 
If she diversifies into fancy pants macaroons, I'll consider making a pilgrimage to SW9

There's a new(ish) cake shop by Streatham Hill station. Went past there the other day and they have meringues the size of saucers. :eek::eek:

Would anyone actually eat a whole meringue the size of a saucer? :hmm:
 
a meringue isn't as much of a draw as a fancy maccaroon.

you couldn't make a vegan version of either of them, mind.
 
Rosie's bakes cupcakes. Anyone up for a back-to-back vegan/animal-cruelty cupcake test? It could be a blind tasting on the benches outside.
 
It's the ludicrously baroque and overabundant icing that I have a problem. All that fuss for something that's over in a matter of seconds
It looks quite pretty, but very sickly.

I had the BIGGEST jam doughnut the other week... it was HUGE :cool:
 
Bloody cupcakes. In the past couple of years every bored housewife in suburbia has got into the business. However I think saturation point has been passed - a community fair I was at last year had 3 separate cup cake stalls and I've already seen them in the down arrow section in some hot/not part of some Sunday mag. The whole 50's housewife iconography things a bit old hat too.

Good luck to her though.
 
Bloody cupcakes. In the past couple of years every bored housewife in suburbia has got into the business. However I think saturation point has been passed - a community fair I was at last year had 3 separate cup cake stalls and I've already seen them in the down arrow section in some hot/not part of some Sunday mag. The whole 50's housewife iconography things a bit old hat too.

Good luck to her though.

Load of bandwagon jumping sheep :mad:
 
a meringue isn't as much of a draw as a fancy maccaroon.

you couldn't make a vegan version of either of them, mind.
Fancy macaroons look so very beautiful. The classic Laduree type.

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Google tells me that you can substitute egg white by dissolving a tbsp of plain agar powder in 1 tbsp water. Whip, chill and whip again.
 
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