Vegan cupcakes take over my tastebuds

A couple of weeks ago we visited the glamorous Ms Cupcake at her weekend residence, The Tearooms in Brick Lane.

I was lucky enough to meet, and scoff the wares of Ms C at my first Iron Cupcake and have been keen to try some more ever since. Not only are her cupcakes gorgeous and incredibly tasty, they are 100% vegan!! That's right - no butter, eggs or milk - the mainstay of most cupcake recipes. I'm a bit of a sceptic when it comes to vegan cupcakes - I've had a few that are just downright unpleasant, and when I've tried to bake my own from recipes they've been completely inedible and ended up in the bin. When I say you wouldn't know Ms C's cupcakes are vegan because they taste so delish I hope she takes that as the compliment it's meant.

Ms C's stall is enough to tempt even the non-cupcake lovers amongst you. A veritable feast of gorgeous looking cakes in bright colours. Not that you'd know this from my photos - sorry bad camera day. You can see much better photos of the cupcakes, and the many flavours available on her website.

After a chat with Ms C, and a pet of the gorgeous little dog of the stallholder next door we finally decided what cupcakes we wanted. Manny of course opted for two chocolate varieties - triple chocolate and ferrero rocher. I went for raspberry ripple and mango blueberry.

The cupcakes got a little squished on the way home, sorry! Being squished detracted in no way from their fabulousness however and they tasted amazing. The raspberry ripple base was incredibly moist and the frosting was very tasty. Previous vegan cupcakes I've had have been quite dry, or the opposite, and quite oily - this one was perfect. The mango blueberry was my favourite of the two - the frosting was divine, and very moreish!

Manny's two chocolate cupcakes were scoffed with his usual sounds of happiness (hmmm, yum, hmmm, good - caveman style, with a chunk of frosting in his gob). I tried some of the chocolate frosting and some of the cake and both were incredibly chocolaty and very very tasty. I'd love to know how Ms C gets her frosting so tasty without lashings of butter! Some kind of vegan magic!

You can find Ms Cupcake at Greenwich Market on Thursday's and Friday's - get there early as she's always on Twitter saying she's sold out, and at the Tearooms on Saturday and Sunday. More details of her whereabouts can be found here.

Cupcakes and bakes

Another new cupcake discovery today - Cupcakes and Bakes in Greenwich's newly launched weekly food market. They will be there Wednesdays and Thursdays so pop along and try some of their lovely cupcakes. We had a vanilla and a chocolate with vanilla frosting and they were very yummy with lovely frosting! I loved the home made taste of the cakes as well - I really do like it when cakes TASTE homemade rather than churned out in a factory!

I shall be returning!!

Sorry the pic isn't the best - my cameras being a pain and also the cakes were in my bag for a while and got a wee bit squished - still tasted fab though!

A marathon week ends with ....

more cupcakes!!!

This week I've walked more than 54 miles according to my pedometer (and leg muscles!) so I thought after another huge walk today, round Greenwich and Blackheath (even though it was pouring with rain, thundering and freezing!) I deserved a little treat so on passing Daisy Cakes and noticing a cabinet stuffed with various cupcake flavours I popped in and bought myself a coconut cupcake and Manny a mocha one.

The last couple of times I've been to Daisy Cakes I was a bit perturbed that they seemed to have changed their frosting recipe..and not for the better, so I'm glad to report that they seem to be back on track! My coconut cupcake was incredibly tasty - the frosting is back to the great stuff I'd become used to from Daisy Cakes and was full of coconut flavour and bits! I'm chuffed that my local cupcake emporium is back to making fantastic cupcakes!!

Not cupcake related but I thought I'd post a pic of the squirrel who crawled up my leg and tugged on my trousers to demand another nut at the park as well - he was ultra cute and kept following me around the flower gardens so I'd give him more nuts!!

Back to work tomorrow....

so we just HAD to buy some cupcakes to cheer ourselves up at that horrific thought (and to celebrate the fact that we FINALLY got to Greenwich park on time to see the time ball drop which excited Manny no end!)

Once again it was Peggy's Cupcakes from Greenwich Market that we couldn't resist and as usual they were utterly gorgeous. I can't really explain but they have a lovely home-made feel about them which just reminds me of my mums cooking (which is a good thing!). Also they are just so beautiful ...nearly too beautiful to eat! I wish it was Easter every weekend just so Peggy could keep this lovely decorating style, I'm going to miss the chicks and bunnies!

Good Friday cupcakes

and when I say good, I mean GREAT! They were just the cutest things I ever saw and they tasted absolutely superb! Once again Peggy's Cupcakes stand up to the taste test! And I don't think I've seen a cuter Easter cupcake ...yet! Tomorrow I'm picking up my Crumbs and Doilies Easter box and maybe taking a wander to another cupcake emporium so we shall see!

Mine was the pink one above and the blue one I bought for Manny but he hasn't tried it yet - if he takes much longer I may just scoff it myself! I just love the way the little bunny is poking out of the frosting! Its so cute you nearly don't want to bite its head off :)

I also took some pics of the Stall in Greenwich market ....aren't the cupcakes just adorable??!!! Definitely some of the prettiest cupcakes available in London and some of the yummiest too!