I was in London on Saturday so on the way back home I made a special diversion out to Brixton just for cupcakes. There are no pictures of the cupcakes as I couldn't wait to sample them all so they don't look as pretty now. I bought 4: cola, cookies and cream, strawberry chocolate and rhubarb crumble. I think my favourite was the cola cupcake as I really didn't expect it to actually taste like cola but it did.
It was at Ms Cupcake's that I found The (all day) Breakfast Scoffer cookbook.
It's a great little book. For only £1.50 you get lots of simple recipes. I already have The Cake Scoffer, The Salad Scoffer and The Return of the Cake Scoffer and knew that they were great.
I have a week off work which meant that I didn't have to get up early and I didn't have to quickly shovel down some porridge before I left the house. I had time to try a new recipe. So this morning I got to try out Vegan Eggy Bread. I tested it on the non-vegan boyfriend and he said it was surprisingly similar to the real thing. He suggested that it needed to be a bit gooier in the middle. I think I could achieve that next time by soaking the bread in the mixture, rather than spreading it on the top, and frying it with a bit more oil and a higher temperature so it cooks the outside quickly and doesn't dry out the inside. I ate mine with baked beans.
I love how simple the recipes from these books are so that you can tinker with them easily to make them a bit your own. Just like the microwave sponge pudding that I often make from the cake scoffer book.
