Monday, 14th June 2010

SWEET & SAUCY

I stumbled across Sweet & Saucy looking through the Green Wedding Shoes Blog, an great blog for beautiful wedding inspiration, and fell in love. Sweet & Saucy, I love the name, based in the US specialise in custom desserts, wedding cakes and much more yummy treats that really look beautiful. Their wedding cake designs are stunning, I love the elegant understated look…

I have been looking for cake inspiration as I am planning on decorating my own wedding cake. A family friend has a bakery and their cakes are so delicious that we never even considered going anywhere else to have our wedding cakes baked but I really love the idea of decorating the cakes myself. I have always been interested in cake decoration so this is my chance to really embrace it. I have been looking for something different in decoration and think I’ve hit the jackpot in inspiration with Sweet & Saucy, their cakes really are beautiful. I also love the images of the cake tables, three beautiful cakes on lovely cake stands with flowers and candles decorating the table…

Watch this space for some of my practice cakes.

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Monday, 15th March 2010

A MOTHERS DAY TREAT IN TANKARDSTOWN

On Saturday I brought my mother for lunch in Tankardstown House in Rathkenny for an early mothers day treat and had to share…

Tankardstown House is a beautifully restored country house in Co. Meath only down the road from our site so will be no doubt be a local haunt when we move into our house. Anyway more about our lunch on Saturday, we walked into the beautiful garden in the walled courtyard where there is a pretty shop, a very elegant formal restaurant, a secret dining area for small private parties and the Bistro which was where we were headed. The interiors of the Bistro are really gorgeous.

We both ordered the special, chicken and leek pie with peas, with chips and salad. We were served a lovely basket of home made breads to nibble on while we waited for our lunch. The pie arrived served in a pot with a pastry top and lovely skinny fries in a small bucket, it was delicious! We followed with sticky toffee pudding and tea, it was my mothers day treat for my mum after all. We did notice some other guests ordering afternoon tea which was beautifully presented on a silver stand; sandwiches, sweet cakes and scones with cream and jam. We will definitely be returning to sample the afternoon tea, possibly the champagne afternoon tea, if we can come up with a reason to celebrate. I visited the Brabazon Restaurant with Alan for dinner a few weeks ago and have to say  it was delicious too, we had a really lovely night.  I’m looking forward to my next trip to Tankardstown House!

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Friday, 15th January 2010

CUPCAKE ME! PLEASE

A sweet treat for you. Yummmm!

I would just love some of these delicious cupcakes now. They are sooo pretty, making me rather peckish just looking at them…

Cupcake Me, run by Tara, makes all of her cupcakes with lovely fresh ingredients. Tasting as good as they look they’re sure to kick your sweet tooth into overdrive! All of her beautiful cakes are available to order for delivery to offices, homes, party locations etc. 

MMmmm! I really would love one now, or two or three…

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Monday, 8th June 2009

I SCREAM ICE CREAM

What a lovely idea for a summer party or wedding, delicious ice cream scoops in a beautiful cup and saucer!

I stumbled across this ice cream blog by Kieran Murphy, part of Murphy’s Ice Cream in Dingle featuring beautiful ice cream creations and recipes. I’d love an ice cream now!

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Saturday, 4th April 2009

SUNNY DAYS!

It’s a beautiful spring day here, the sun has been peaking out from behind the small white fluffy clouds in a beautiful blue sky! It makes a change from the usual wet Irish weather which makes you want to curl up in front of a roaring fire.

Not today though… lots of work has been done, I’ve been out in the garden weeding, preening and watering. The flowers are starting to bloom, beautiful butter yellow daffodils are popping up all over the countryside, giving me lots of inspiration for some fresh spring designs.

I’ve also been baking brown bread, my first time, very proud of myself ! I couldn’t resist the smell wafting through the house when it was cooling and had to have a small taste with some devilishly red raspberry jam. Delicious!

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