As a big fan of cupcakes, never pass a bakery without buying one

...or two.

This Red Velvet and chocolate-vanilla cupcakes are 

from The Hummingbird Bakery in South Kensington.

 47 Old Brompton Road.

It's easy to pop in to the one in Soho on 155a Wardour Street

as well

 Mini chocolate cupcakes at Primrose Bakery.

 Wow, Coca-Cola cupcakes!

 Primrose Bakery in Covent Garden 

on Tavistock Street.

 Vanilla cupcake and lemon cake

from Ottolenghi in Islington on Upper Street.

No matter where the cupcakes are bought,

this is the result every time.

Do you have your favourite cupcake place?

Sprinkles

Best cupcakes in LA!

Had strawberry cupcake and orange cupcake

- the look is quite ordinary but the taste is spectacular

- so smooth and rich in real flavour

AbFab!

Sprinkles in Beverly Hills

9635 Little Santa Monica Blvd

www.sprinkles.com

- the online calendar gives a day-by-day list 

of what's available 

Once Again Cupcakes!

 My last chocolate cupcake in New York

 Well, almost the last one

 The Magnolia's cupcakes here on Bleecker

are somehow better than

the ones at Rockefeller Center

- don't know why!

Magnolia Bakery

401 Bleecker Street

Other branches in NY

200 Columbus Avenue

Rockerfeller Center

Grand Central Terminal

They have shops in Los Angeles and even in Dubai!

 The Little Cupcake Bakeshop's cupcakes're

 gorgeous too

 Even though the blue colour looks a bit weird...

- delicious anyway!

 Making of cupcakes

 Would be a perfect job for me, wouldn't it?

 The Little Cupcake Bakeshop

has a wide variety of other cakes as well

Little Cupcake Bakeshop

30 Prince Street,

NoLita

http://www.littlecupcakebakeshop.com/

.

Well, in Europe you can only dream about these delicasies...

Cupcakes

 What a que for Magnolia Bakery on Saturday afternoon!

 Instead of queing for cupcakes had

an organic mint chocolate chips ice cream

 Plenty of interesting organic flavours to chooce from

 And everything sold from this van parked on Bleecker Street

 On Sunday morning was luckier with the cupcakes

- went Magnolia Bakery early in the morning

yet wasn't the first one there...

- these are the best:

chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing

401 Bleecker Street

Ruis Bread

 On Wednesday evening went straight to

Dean and  Deluca on Broadway to buy the famous

Finnish Ruis Bread made in New York

with 100% organic local ingredients 

by Finnish Kuusisto brothers

http://www.nordicbreads.com/

 Bought also some lobster salad to put on the bread

- marvellous!

 Couldn't resist of buying 2 mini cupcakes as well

- just can't get such  perfect and delicious

cupcakes in Europe!

Dean and Deluca

560 Broadway

http://www.deandeluca.com/



Royal Wedding Approaching

 Union Jacks on Regent Street

- London is ready for the big wedding

 Beautiful flowers everywhere

- well, there're always gorgeous flowers in London,

not only because of the wedding

- popped into Liberty's to buy a scent by

Maison Francis Kurkdjian:

Aqua Universalis

 Back to Regent Street

 Had time for a delicious fruit tartalet

at Caffe Concerto

And for a vanilla cupcake at Selfridges's...

Red Velvet

It would be great to be in London

and go to Hummingbird Bakery

for a cupcake or two...

.

Ingredients for 12 Red Velvet cupcakes:

60g unsalted butter at room temperature

150g caster sugar

1 egg

10g cocoa powder

20ml red foor colouring (Dr Oetker)
1/2 tesspoon vanilla extract

120ml buttermilk

150g plain flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda

1,5 teaspoon white wine vinegar

.

Cream Cheese Frosting:

300g icing sugar, sifted

50g unsalted butter, at room temperature

125g cream cheese, cold

.

Miami Beach

Breakfast on Collins Avenue

- a cup of herbal tea & a banana-nut muffin

.

SoBe

Loved walking along the beach
.

There's always a crew shooting

fashion, adds or films

somewhere in Miami Beach
.

Boats at South Pointe
.

Cupcake, finally!
- at Starbucks on Ocean Drive
.

New York on Wednesday

Skipped the breakfast, almost...

Had a gorgeous take-away cupcake & peppermint tea

on the way

.

Magnolia Bakery

1240 Ave of the Americas

http://www.magnoliabakery.com/

"Cupcakes make people happy!"

...

The day was much cooler today, app. 18C

.

Walked to Columbus Circle

and had a look at Time Warner Center

.
View from Time Warner Center to Columbus Circle
.

The famous blue door of Perse

- didn't have chance to enter,

maybe next time...

Perse has been chocen as the best restaurant in New York

by Zagat

The chef Thomas Keller has also French Laundry in Napa
.
Before lunch made some shopping at Bloomingdales

- 2 pairs of black flipflops

.

Lunch at Forty Carrots at Bloomigdales

Crab meat salad

- delicious "light" lunch - huge portion

Fresh healthy meals

Lots of elderly ladies having their lunch there

Rating: 4/5

...

Had booked a private car by the hotel

to take to the JFK at 3.30pm

- journey took app.1h

.

Had some problems at the airport in terminal 7:

wanted to check-in at a counter,

but a BA employee didn't let

- said that the check-in must be done by a machine,

but it wasn't possible because of the connection flight

- this real pain-in-the-arse middle-aged lady

kept on telling to check-in by the machine

until another BA person told her that in this case

it was not possible to check-in there

- the check-in lady at the counter was very kind & helpful

...

The flight to London was supposed to leave at 7.05pm,

but because of a no-show

- had checked-in the luggage but didn't make it to the flight

all the suitcases had to be taken out of plane to find that.

The departure was 1,10h delayed.

Had a window seat without anyone sitting next to

- luxury!

Watched "Marley & me"

and slept a couple of hours.

Already at 1am came the breakfast,

the flight took only 6h.

At 2am the plane landed and it was already 7am in London...