Back in November 2009 (yes I know!! It’s a long time ago!) I filled a jar with dried apricots and amaretto liqueur. I wanted the apricots to soak in the liqueur for a little while whilst I thought of what to make with them. As it happens, they have been soaking until now, sitting in […]
Maisie Fantaisie is recommended by the events team at Claridges and we have supplied numerous wedding cakes and birthday cakes for weddings at Claridges and private events. The events team will help you plan your day ensuring that every requirement is met to a very high standard. I have spent some lovely evenings with friends […]
I love this perfume by Marc Jacobs, it’s perfect for a daisy themed wedding along with our daisy wedding cake. My assistant Emily has a bottle of this delicious scent and it smells divine, like a Summer’s day. I’m going to pick a bottle up myself for my Summer holiday. I love it when a […]
The weekend saw me delivering another wedding cake to a wedding at The Ritz hotel on Piccadilly. It’s such a wonderful hotel. Opened in 1906 by the Swiss hotelier Cesar Ritz, it was designed to resemble a stylish Parisian block of flats. Mr.Ritz personally managed the hotel’s operations for many years. The high standards to […]
I always think that come winter things might slow a little in the Maisie Fantaisie cake kitchen, but this winter has been our busiest to date, so please accept my apologies for neglecting my blog. When production designer Bruce French commissioned a cake from Maisie Fantaisie for this year’s 30th birthday Brit awards, his single […]
Earlier today I was thinking about the next recipe I’m going to post and I thought I might like to make something with apricots, one of my favourite fruits. I’m not quite sure of the combination of the recipe yet (apricots and chocolate, apricots and almond, apricots and orange), but I’m certain that I want […]
Goodness me it’s been a while since my last blog post. We’ve had a really busy summer at Maisie Fantaisie making lots of wedding cakes and I haven’t had a moment. So my apologies to you for that. Last weekend was my nieces 7th birthday so we headed down to the cotswolds to help out […]
I wanted to show you what we’ve been up to in the Maisie Fantaisie cake kitchen this week. One of our wedding cakes is to be decorated with an abundance of these beautiful sugar roses. They’re just so pretty I wanted to share them with you! The inner layers of petals are made with individual […]
‘We all know the devil is in the detail. Excellence is in the accumulation of seemingly inconsequential, minor and weightless details. Yet, if you gather them together lovingly and patiently, along with your team’s intelligence - it is possible to create weight and density……..for a fleeting second, one may feel that one has touched excellence’ […]
I’m not a champagne connoisseur, but I do like the odd drop of bubbly. Last night as a treat to celebrate my birthday, my friends opened up a bottle of ‘Dom Perignon Vintage 1996 Champagne’. They are connoisseurs and they keep their collection at exactly the right temperature in a special fridge. We had been […]
