Tuesday baking.

It is always a time for baking and exploration of new fields of taste and flavors. While S is busy with the ingredients and the actual process of patisserie,  I am running up and down the stairs, on my way to the local supermarket to buy a few missing elements.

Haha baking is a 4 hands-on project and while preparing the next step in the recipe, there is an exercise in between. I like that. And as long as the sun shines these last days over good old Westminster, London we're just gorgeous delighted and in a terribly well mood. I can do those stairs easily and run around the few blocks between the local super market at Great Portland Street and another corner shop at Euston Road.

Instead of the buttermilk - impossible to find today - we decide to go for butter instead. The shredded apple with a pinch of cinnamon and the maple syrup frosting make these fancy Tuesday cupcakes a celebration of flavor. We're both thrilled with our new kitchen-aid. This makes our tiny Westminster kitchen better equiped. Look at this, there they are smiling on a glaze plate, topped with the hand of the master. Blossoming under tulip's freshness. 

Pauw's project: Ikea Dining Table, the 'bronze' chair is from Anthropology. The little pink and yellow can* was a farewell gift when we left Cassis, Provence, France in the summer of 2005 to move to Lausanne, Switzerland. The pink tulips remind me of Amsterdam.

*I use the can for different purposes. Might serve as a water jar too while having a seated dinner.