Sorry for the lack of post recently! I’ve been moving from Glasgow to Newcastle and it’s all been a bit hectic! However, Tough Cookies is still baking strong and there’s plenty to show you soon 😊 🍪
In the meantime, happy belated Easter! Hope you all had a chocolatey weekend 😋
Cake is delicious, this is fact 😊 and this week Thor decided to drop by the Bakehouse to see for himself! – Just a shame he didn’t look where he was landing 😜 This cake was my first try of … Continue reading
Nearly there! Just rolling out the last few batches of custom orders before Christmas. Here’s a shot of Tough Cookies’ full cupcake range on our first ever Christmas as an independent kitchen. Had a lovely time, thank you all for … Continue reading
Running a drizzle of red food dye down the crease of your piping bag provides this awesome white and pink ice-cream swirl effect in your icing. Topped with a humbug, melted chocolate and crushed candy cane. Related articles Frosting & … Continue reading
One of my favorite cupcake accessories this year has been these tiny Gingerbread-Men sprinkles. Such cuties! Related articles Gingerbread AT-AT Walker (craziestgadgets.com) No-Bake Gingerbread Cheesecakes (cityliciousrecipes.wordpress.com)
I’d just like to shout out to NotYourMommasCookie for inspiring this Cupcake recipe. She made a desert in homage to the maple-poptart-candy-spaghetti-breakfast in the movie, Elf. I thought I’d put my own twist on it and made single, maple-poptart-candy-spaghetti-breakfast cupcakes! … Continue reading
I made some little snowball truffles as a festive alternative to the usual cake-pops by the counter. These are the same truffle recipe I used recently, only they have then been smothered in melted white chocolate and dipped in coconut; … Continue reading
Just a closeup of one of our Christmas trees! This giant cupcake has been Tough Cookies’ most popular order this year, with some people just ordering them as shop/home decorations! Related articles Christmas Tree Cupcakes (myjuniverse.com) Christmas Treats Santa Will … Continue reading
Rather than make gingerbread houses out of biscuits this year, I decided to try something different. This gingerbread house is made using my gingerbread cupcake recipe and a giant cupcake cast. Big enough to slice and share 🙂
Not long now! As Christmas nears, I’m going to count down the days by sharing a different Christmas themed cake from the shop every day 🙂 These Christmas tree cakes are made by piping a tall swirl of frosting on … Continue reading
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