Sugar sugar sugar!

It’s no secret that I have a bit of a sweet tooth and this week has been HEAVEN for my tooth. Not so good for my butt but I’ve joined a gym so I’m hop­ing my butt will be happy soon.   Not sur­pris­ingly Squidge is get­ting to be an old hand in the sweets depart­ment.  If we hit a cof­fee shop the girl know exactly what cake she wants.  Men­tion a party and she’s day­dream­ing of what cake they’re going to serve.  We’re big bak­ers– I have a rain­bow cake I’m plan­ning on mak­ing this week­end– pho­tos to fol­low.  About a week ago a tweet went out ask­ing if there were any blog­gers  in S. Man­ches­ter by a fab inde­pen­dent baker located in my old ‘hood.  I waved my hand excit­edly (please see afore­men­tioned sweet tooth).  I was asked for my address and my heart went a pit­ter pat­ter as I hoped I’d get some cup­cakes to try out.  Sure enough a pretty lit­tle box was wait­ing for me when I got home the other day.

These lit­tle cakes were sooo cute I hardly wanted to eat them. Please don’t worry I soon got over that feel­ing, besides Squidge had no such qualms…

I’d show you a pic­ture of myself eat­ing one but I’m afraid I ate it too quickly and ahem there was not much left by the time I thought about tak­ing a pic­ture.  My favorite thing about these cup­cakes are the vari­ety of flavours.  Squidge is munch­ing a very vanilla one and I ate a naughty Nutella one– soo delish!

Airy Fairy cup­cakes are made by the muy tal­ented Laura from her home kitchen and since start­ing in early 2010 she’s gone from strength to strength.  I remem­ber see­ing a fan­tas­tic dis­play of cup­cakes at a lit­tle deli on Bur­ton Rd and I promised Squidge we’d stop in on our way back.  Sadly by the time we headed back– only about 30 min­utes later– they were all gone!  I thought to myself they must really good to sell out so quickly.  I asked the woman at the deli when she’d have more of them and that’s when she told me about Airy­Fairy.  Then we moved and haven’t been back to West Dids­bury since so no chance to go back and try them.

Now let’s get back to the cup­cakes.  They look beau­ti­ful but I was wor­ried they’d look good but not taste good.  I’ve have arti­san cup­cakes before where the huge beau­ti­fully dec­o­rated frost­ing was too over­pow­er­ing– too sweet.  I shouldn’t have wor­ried as the frost­ing (although huge) was light and fluffy and just sweet enough to bal­ance with the cake.  I tried a Rasp­berry Rip­ple– com­plete w/ fresh rasp­ber­ries, the Naughty Nutella… mmmmm nutella and they were per­fect.  Not too big but with big flavours.  Laura at Airy­Fairy Cup­cakes does a fan­tas­tic job and it’s great to see a female entre­pre­neur run­ning a suc­cess­ful busi­ness.  So if you’re in the Greater Man­ches­ter area and you’re in need of some tasty baked goods for wed­dings, bar mitz­vahs, chris­ten­ings, birth­days or just because you should look up Airy­Fairy cup­cakes. Any­hoo I’ll stop gush­ing. GO! Check out her web­site and get some yummy cup­cakes deliv­ered STAT!