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Posts Tagged ‘snack’

The Cupcake Bakery

July 23, 2009 | Author

The Cupcake Bakery
459 Collins St, Melbourne

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We were super excited when the sign Cupcake Bakery was posted in one of the vacant shops in Intercontinental Hotel- after all, who doesn’t love cupcakes?  Finally, one sunny day in July, the Cupcake Bakery opened-lines and lines of colourful cupcakes were displayed proudly in the shop window: choc-choc, choc mint, strawberry swirl, lemon & poppy seed, carrot cupcakes… and they are the normal ones!

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Women like us swarmed the shop, and by lunch time, most of the exotic ones are sold out- no more tiramisu cupcakes, lemon meringue cupcakes and molton choc cupcakes :(

So all I could try is the vanilla swirl and the lemon and poppy seed cupcake- they are quite nice, but to be honest, they look nicer than they tasted…they are slightly dry.  I would much prefer a moist, crabapple cupcake than the one in Cupcake Bakery.

Does anyone also notice that the cupcake craze is sweeping over Melbourne?  First there’s Little Cupcakes, then there’s Cupcake Bakery, then there’s one that’s opening up in QV.  Let’s see how that one fares with Crabapple, shall we?

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Piggy’s Wicked Adventures

March 15, 2009 | Author
Just thought I’d put some pics of my little adventure at Wicked Sunday here on the blog- it was great but I thought it was a chocolate event- turns out I was too excited and miss the bit that it said “Coffee, cakes, gelati and more…” so I was disappointed that there wasn’t as much chocolate as originally thought. There was not a lot of free tastings too, is sad for me :( LOL
There are lots of cupcakes stall which looks absolutely awesome, but we didn’t try any- some are really expensive, one little cup cake costs $3! I know it looks beautiful, but still!
We had the little dutch pancakes- bad choice- this one is $6 and I am pretty sure we could get better ones elsewhere .
Now I LOVE this icecream. Not only did they happily let us try different flavours, but they are seriously yummie! We bought a lime flavoured icecream- there are bits of lime rind in the icecream and it tasted divine!
Now on to the chocolate- it took us an hour to finally look at the map and realised that the chocolate stalls are somewhere else! LOL. This stall, Sisko is awesome. Once again they let me taste some of their chocolate and their orange crunch is yummie! But just look at their chocolate creation of the lotus flower! And if you think that was awesome, look at the other chocolate creation they made (on the left) and another cooking school made (right).

We also stumbled across Darren Purchese’s demo on making yummie desserts. Darren, who used to work for Vue de Monde, cooked up a beautiful looking chocolate pav. I don’t normally like pav but a chocolate pav sounds good! I actually ran up afterwards to see if I can try some :P And Darren was like sure! But the MC was like no, sorry, OH&S issues whilst shoving that dessert into his mouth all that time! :( Hummppphhhh

Lastly, can I say this is all Shoe Queen’s fault for wanting the free Foodies diary, but we got roped into the Lifestyle Channel Food Indulgences confession booth and confessed all our food sins for the Australia public to see :P ! It was a good diary though :P
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Piggy taking a break from the MF&WF- to eat more yummie fooooodddddd :D- Part I

March 14, 2009 | Author

Roule Galette
Scott Alley, 241 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
(03) 9639 0307

This is one of my favourite French Crepe places in Melbourne. This tiny little place is very cosy and on this rainy day after a horrible run, we had breakkie here.

I highly recommend the juices they have in there- it’s so refreshing, but if you feel like something stronger, they have wine and beer also!
Anyway, on to the food cos that’s the most important thing! I had a Complète Galette ($9), which is described as “Filled with an Egg, ham, shredded cheese and butter, it is the oldest tradition in Brittany and we always enjoy it.” I’ve actually asked the lovely girl to substitute the cheese with mushroom, which I thought it would be a good idea after all the cheese I had stuffed through my lactose-intolerant tummy yesterday with the pizza. Alas, the mushroom which is apparently pre-marinated or something turned out to be creamy mushrooms- my tummy is protesting! Still it was a really yummie breakfast, an alternative to a fry up. Although I must admit, compared to Le Triskel, I like the galettes in Le Triskel better. 7/10
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HK must eat!

January 27, 2009 | Author
Little Egg Cakes :D
North Point Little Egg Cakes- This store is in Tsim Sha Tsui. 178 Nathan Road, Tsim Sha Tsui (near Jordon MTR Station)
But wait! There is MORE. Loosely translated as “Little egg cakes” they are the YUMMIEST streets snacks you could EVER get. And THIS. IS. THE. BEST. “Little Egg Cakes” stall in Hong Kong. EVER. This is not the place that would be affected by economic woes. I had to queue up for 20 mins to get my “Little Egg Cakes” and it’s worth every cent ($2.5) and every min of my time. Yes as you can see there’s newspaper clipping stuck all over the shop again.

There it is- my beautiful Little Egg Cakes- I have been eating this every since I have memory- crispy in the outside, and when you eat all the edges off and open up the middle bit- there’s a fluffy little “yolk” on the inside-I simply CANNOT live without this and it’s one of the things I missed most about HK.

They normally have at least 8 stoves cooking these yummie things at once- manned by one person

There’s a cafe in Box Hill and one in Sydney chinatown that I know of that makes this- let me say- sh*thouse. You’ve got to go to HK to get this. They also sell waffles with peanut butter and sugar *moans* Yumgasmic!

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