May 6th, 2010
So this weekend consisted of buying a lot of ingredients and baking both the Whoopie Pie and the French Macaron, here’s how it went:
Macaron Misfortune
I painstakingly followed the recipe; I was enthusiastic and had all the ingredients and equipment to make the most beautiful macarons known to man. What a disaster! Once the egg whites (Read more)
April 22nd, 2010
Everybody loves a cup cake, especially our wee team of foodies, so much so that we have our monthly cup cake decorating evenings in the cafe. However it seems there are a couple of new kids in town. The Whoopie Pie and the French Macaron!
WHOOPIE
The Whoopie Pie originated from Pennsylvania, America and is the new (Read more)
April 8th, 2010
Easter at Foodie’s is taken just as seriously as Christmas, so we wanted to do something egg-stra special!
Alongside cramming our café full of cute giant chocolate bunnies, and enormous first class Easter eggs from The Chocolate Tree we decided we all needed to get a little creative. Shell I explain? (ok that was a bad (Read more)
April 6th, 2010
It is that time of the year again when Foodies at Holyrood changes the art on the walls. Our new artist is none other than my little sister, Kirsty McLean! Before I stole her back to Edinburgh to work at The Foodie Company Kirsty was a costume designer by trade. Having studied in Brighton and (Read more)
March 22nd, 2010
On Wednesday the 10th of March, Peter and I loaded the Foodie wagon full of cakes, tea and funky crockery and trundled down the M8 to Glasgow, for my radio debut on the MacAuley and co show which is aired on BBC Radio Scotland every morning at 10 am!
We pulled up to a rather impressive (Read more)
February 22nd, 2010
Foodies at Holyrood played host to their very first Cupcake decorating event on Thursday the 18th February. And what a night it was….
We had the wonderful Liggy of Liggy’s cakes demonstrating with the help of her trusty assistant Kirsty.
The ladies that attended were greeted with a glass of bubbles and then shown to their seats, (Read more)
February 15th, 2010
As you may (or may not) know tomorrow is Pancake day – hooray!! It has to be one of our favourite Foodie culinary dates of the year.
So here at Foodies we thought we would put a wee Scottish twist on the traditional pancake. Below you will find two delicious recipes; one for Drop Scones, also (Read more)
January 27th, 2010
Christmas feels like it never happened, it’s cold and dreary outside and everyone dreads the alarm clock going off when it’s still pitch black behind the curtains! Well not at Foodies at Holyrood! The New Hot menu is off to a flying start, people are hearing about our baked potatoes and hot ciabattas’ and January (Read more)
January 26th, 2010
This week I discovered a very cool American Illustrator called Christoph Niemann’s. He has done some fantastic illustrations for a lot of kid’s books but what caught my attention, being a foodie and owning a coffee shop was the sketches using coffee on napkins.
Check out some of the photos below. The sequence of sketches tells (Read more)
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