The first is "Airy Fairy Cupcakes" at www.airyfairycupcakes.com. She is based in Ireland and blogs about her cupcake baking experiences. She has GREAT ideas for cupcake flavors such as lavender, french toast, chinese five-spice, "strawberry, champagne, and cream", and Guiness. The pictures on her blog are beautiful and made me crave a cupcake with some kind of gooey caramel goodness inside. I had never heard of "Welsh Rarerabbit Muffins" or "Millionare's Shortbread" until I read her blog, so click away if you haven't either. So, thanks Airy Fairy! I'll keep reading!
The next is Almond Corner's post "It's Raining Berries". She is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and she wrote this lovely post on wild strawberries. Here in California, the strawberries that are predominately sold in stores are the gargantuan ones. The wild ones, however, are quite petite and tasty. It was nice for me to read that she had picked these wild strawberries on her morning walk...how dreamy. I wish I could do that! She called them "tiny red smiles". She used them to make a chocolate-strawberry tart. She has quite a few interesting posts and good ideas, such as deep-frying elderflowers and strawberries! Wow! I can't wait to see what she makes next!
The third is a post about strawberry tart written on the blog Anne Strawberry. I like how the post includes a picture of each step in the tart assembly. The strawberries look gorgeously red and the tart looks delicious. The best part is, both the author and I have red Kitchen Aides. Yay!
So those were my favorites today. I hope to do this kind of post again soon!
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5 comments:
Thanks girl! You have some amazing stuff on here- those chocolates look wonderful and I'm dying over the cupcookies!
It is such a wonderful surprise to read those lines from you! Thank you so much! The cupcookies are cool! I like the strawberry-Bavarian dessert very much!
I just wanted to stop and say hi and that I have been enjoying your blog for a day or two now. I discovered it when browsing the foodie blogroll (which a friend of mine is on).
It's ironic that I happened to choose your blog in that I live in the Bay Area and have eaten at Zuni, and my friend Martha (the food blogger) and I when in New York this spring, stopped in at Buttercup Bake Shop (much better than Citizen cupcake).
I checked out your main site and maybe I missed it somewhere, but do you have a retail shop?
thank you so much for your lovely write up about my blog! really enjoying checking out ur blog too...i love those cupcookies!
Megan,
Thanks for sharing. I envy the fact that you get to live and work in the Bay Area. Your background is very impressive. Thanks for introducing these other blogs I look forward to checking them out.
-- Marc
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