Birthday love

I have been a very lucky girl this birthday. A new vintage bike complete with a bell and basket, cupcakes, cocktails with the girls, amazing Mexican with friends and lots of gorgeous flowers.

Colour inspiration #3

Left to right:

• Bright yellow bike with gorgeous hydrangeas – perfect for a bike ride in the spring
• Yellow whistle tea pot – to brighten up your morning
• Yellow birds plate – some amazing Anthropologie goodness
• Yellow teacup with birds and flowers – afternoon tea anyone?
• Yellow English Babour jacket – that's well English
• Circles Plate, Canary Yellow – so pretty
• Yellow chair on white wall – fantastic pop of colour in a very minimal space
• Enameled geo bangle – add a bit of gold and yellow to your outfit
• A bright and sunshiney day – I NEED this couch 
• The Great Gatsby – gorgeous graphic design
• Yellow Gingham Cupcake Liners – these would go beautifully with my Peaches and cream cupcakes
• Chunky Vintage Lemon Yellow Oval Glass Jewel Surgical Steel Post Earrings – bold and bright
• Fabulous tea set – picnic in the sun!

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Delightful peaches and cream

One of my favourite cupcake shops in London is The Hummingbird Bakery. One of my BFFs, Ange, gave me the cookbook one Christmas while I was living over there. It wasn't until I got back to Melbourne where I have my own kitchen that I finally tested my baking skills. This sunny autumn day I decided to make Peaches and Cream cupcakes.

Recipe from The Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook. Photos by Stacey Hills

The end product is to die for. A rich creamy vanilla icing with a sprinkle of brown sugar, a light fluffy vanilla cake, and at the bottom, a little surprise flavour bomb of preserved peaches! Sensational. Now I am going to put it out there. This could actually in fact be the best cupcake I have ever eaten. I know this is a big call, but I am standing by my statement. Up until today, it was the Passionfruit ones from the David Jones food court. These mysterious treasures only ever seem to pop up every now and then. I love them because of the passionfruit curd centre. But these... well these peaches and cream delights, take cupcakes to a whole new level!

Photos by Stacey Hills

Be my Valentine

Happy Valentines Day everyone. I made my Valentine Lemon and Sour Cream cupcakes. They are in red cupcake cases with white icing, all in good Valentine tradition.

There are 12 altogether and I am hoping he won't be able to eat all of them himself and will need a helping hand from a certain someone. Yummy. xx