November 17, 2007

White Chocolate and Raspberry Cupcakes

These cupcakes are rich and delicious. Vanilla bean cupcake, partnered with delicate white chocolate and red raspberries. Perfect as a dessert cupcake, the white chocolate melts in the batter to form pockets of molten choc.
Beautiful served piled high with fresh raspberries and drizzled with white chocolate ganache.
Using your favourite vanilla cupcake mixture, 2/3′rds fill your liners. As [...]

November 17, 2007

Fake Food

The restaurants and cafes in Singapore provided me with my first exposure to fake food. Food items, made of plastics and resins, waxes and lacquers, displayed to represent the items on a  a menu or to provide a tableau of  deliciousness to tempt the potential diner.
As well as being  inviting, they also serve as an instructive, informational guide to menu items. [...]