Well last weekend Hokitika played host to the annual Wildfoods Festival. Being a newcomer to town I thought it a good opportunity to try selling some wares. Not wanting to tread the well trod carnivorous track I settled on cupcakes. With a few mildly wild additions of course...
Chocolate and Wild berry (blackberries painfully plucked from local bushes), Banana, Baileys and Bush honey, Wild Lavender and Lemon (culinary lavender courtesy of Delphi), Orange, Almond and Marigold, and little babycakes adorned with 'snails' and 'ladybugs' of the confectioners as opposed to garden variety. Oh and some Carrot and coconut for the most timid of punters. As predicted the tried and true chocolate and banana cupcakes were the hot favourites but there was a surprising amount of interest in the Lavender and Lemon.
Chocolate and Wild berry (blackberries painfully plucked from local bushes), Banana, Baileys and Bush honey, Wild Lavender and Lemon (culinary lavender courtesy of Delphi), Orange, Almond and Marigold, and little babycakes adorned with 'snails' and 'ladybugs' of the confectioners as opposed to garden variety. Oh and some Carrot and coconut for the most timid of punters. As predicted the tried and true chocolate and banana cupcakes were the hot favourites but there was a surprising amount of interest in the Lavender and Lemon.
We shared a stall with the 'Richard from Westport, Braveheart and Spiderboy' trio who were peddling champagne of the non alcoholic sort in rhubarb and elderflower flavours. Delightful, and a suitably ladylike accompaniment to a (mildly) wild cupcake.
Wild about cupcakes shut up shop at lunchtime, the cake stands thankfully bare before things took a turn for the wilder...
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the girls at work think you're a living genious. why can't you live in auckland and we could put morning/avo tea orders in...
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