watching “Gainsbourg – vie héroïque”

new muffin paper cups

Elena Melnik by Jette Jors in Cover Magazine

these oh-so-great metallic animal clutches from TsuruBride

Perfect cover of “Fools rush in” from She&Him

lovely illustrations from Après Ski

wishing I could have this beautiful, out of print photo book… source

“Les filles en Vogue” an very entertaining documentary about the actual “it-Models” in Paris

Karen Elson on the new Jalouse cover

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Today I was invited to  Dotti’s virtual coffee party together with some lovely bloggers who joined from all over Europe. It has been a  pleasure, ladies

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How exciting! I gave my first TV interview for Barcelona TV today( which will be featured tomorrow 29.4) and prepared this setup with lots of muffins and cupcakes. Hope you like it

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A new flavour in my cupcake menu : Yummy Coconut Cupcakes with Coconut and Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Frosting

orders via Ilovemuffins.es

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Trying out new recipes – these are Cinnamon Roll Muffins

Lina Persson’s new photography blog “No hidden compartments”

My new Fake-fur Leopard coat from Miss Selfrige

The Ruby Lookbook 2010 (New Zealand) with lovely model Zippora Seven. I love every single outfit

A beautiful Romy Schneider in this newly edited documentary….

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Actually this weekend it was too hot and humid to even think about baking, but I had these yummy fresh blueberries smiling at me every time I opened the fridge, so I decided to mix them with dried coconut and make some summer muffins. Here’s the simple and quick recipe

Blueberry Coconut Muffins ( for 12 Muffins)
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Ingredients A:

*340g all purpose flour
*2 tablespoons dried, ground coconut
*2 teaspoons baking powder
*1/4 teaspoon salt

Ingredients B:

*125 g melted butter
*130g sugar
*1 sachet bourbon Vanilla sugar
*130 milk
*2 eggs

*250g fresh blueberries
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Preheat the oven @190ºC.
Line a muffin tray with 12 paper cups.
Mix the ingredients A in a bowl.
Melt the butter and add the sugar and vanilla sugar, beating well. Then add the eggs and milk and beat well.
Mix ingredients A with ingredients B, then add the blueberries slowly.
Fill the paper cups and bake for 17-19min, doing the toothpick test before removing from the oven

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Nothing better than a relaxed sunday breakfast after a crazy, busy week. Lately I feel like wonder woman,
doing 100 things at a time:) – so last weekend I enjoyed these yummy warm cinnamon brioches while flicking through the new Vogue Nippon, adoring the wonderful editorial shot by Karl Lagerfeld…

Cinnamon Brioches (12 units)
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Ingredients:
*42g fresh yeast
*2 tablespoon sugar
*2 teaspoons cinnamon
*8 tablespoons milk
*300g flour
*a hint of salt
*3 eggs
*150g softened butter
*1 egg yolk
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Preheat oven @180ºC (convection oven).
Dissolve the yeast and sugar in 6 tablespoons milk.
Add flour, salt, 3 eggs, butter and cinnamon.
Knead well and let rest for 40 minutes( cover the bowl).
In the meantime butter a 12 units muffin pan and put in the fridge.
After 40 minutes knead the dough in flour and form 12 big and 12 small balls out of it.
Put the balls in muffins pan, the big one first, then the small ones on top. In a small bowl mix the egg yolk with the milk, then spread on top of the brioches. Let rest for 10 minutes before putting in the oven.
Bake for 15-20 minutes

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This week was a crazy – I baked so many muffins like I never did before:) and found some great new recipes I will show you these days…

Oh, did I mention I love paper garlands?

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Browsing around the internet I stumbled across this donut muffin recipe and got curious to try.
As I love cinnamon I added some into the batter and the result was soooooooo good!
Have a great week

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Relaxed sunday reading the Lula and Mixté Magazine, finding new music groups, sunshine on my balcony and friends coming over for coffee time. I have to admit I haven’t stuck to my principles and bought a Nespresso machine although I swore myself to never be unfaithful to freshly ground coffee… But my coffee machine exploded yesterday and I can’t live without coffee while it’s getting repaired (which apparently takes 3 months!) Damn, George Clooney won (and I really don’t like him). To salve my conscience I needed to make something old fashioned and went for these hazelnut & chocolate muffins – a taste that reminds me of my childhood. I feel better now:)

Hazelnut & Chocolate Muffins
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Ingredients:

*100g milk chocolate, grated
*100g black chocolate, grated
*200g ground hazelnuts
*130g all purpose flour
*6 eggs(separated yolk and egg white)
*200g softened butter
*1 teaspoon baking powder
*1 teaspoon cinnamon
*240g sugar
*1 sachet vanilla sugar
* a hint of salt
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Preheat the oven @ 200ºC.
Mix the hazelnut and chocolate. In another bowl cream the butter with the sugar/vanilla sugar. Then stir in the egg yolks slowly. Stir in the nut/chocolate mix and add the flour, baking powder and cinnamon.
Beat the egg white with the salt until stiff and mix into the batter, stir until well combined.
Line a muffin pan with paper cups and fill the batter in.
Bake for ca 18min and let cool…

little cupcake bear from Bukubuku

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