Meet Me at the Cupcake Café (64 page)
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Authors: Jenny Colgan
And, to be the total opposite of that, look at the next page for some great big, indulgent, frothy cupcakes. To get a proper frou-frou icing, use a bag or an icing kit and start from the centre, making a snail shape, then building the icing up as high as you can!
Royal Wedding Street Party
Red, White and Blue Cupcakes
Measurements: Imperial, of course!
White Queen Victoria sponge base:
6oz butter
6oz caster sugar
3 eggs (organic, of course)
6oz self-raising flour
splash of milk
1 tsp vanilla
To make: cream the butter and sugar until it’s light and fluffy. Add the eggs with a spoon of flour if it looks like it’s curdling, then fold in the rest of the flour. Add a splash of milk until the mixture is dropping consistency. Fill twelve cupcake cases two thirds of the way, then bake at 180° C for 12–15 minutes.
Red cream cheese topping
8oz cream cheese
5 tbsp butter
8oz icing sugar (or to taste)
add a few drops of rosewater and some food colouring
To make: whizz everything up. Decorate with blue sugar flowers. Scoff and toast the happy couple!
Jenny Colgan
The streets of London are paved with gold … allegedly.
They may be twin sisters, but Lizzie and Penny Berry are complete opposites – Penny is blonde, thin and outrageous; Lizzie quiet, thoughtful and definitely not thin. The one trait they do share is a desire to DO something with their lives and, as far as they’re concerned, the place to get noticed is London.
Out of the blue they discover they have a grandmother living in Chelsea – and when she has to go into hospital, they find themselves flat-sitting on the King’s Road. But, as they discover, it’s not as easy to become It Girls as they’d imagined, and West End Boys aren’t at all like Hugh Grant …
‘A brilliant novel from the mistress of chick-lit’
Eve
978-0-7515-4332-2
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Evie needs a good holiday. Not just because she’s been working all hours in her job, but also because every holiday she has ever been on has involved sunburn, arguments and projectile vomiting – sometimes all three at once. Why can’t she have a normal holiday, like other people seem to have – some sun, sand, sea and (hopefully) sex?
So when her employers invite her to attend a conference with them in the South of France, she can’t believe her luck. It’s certainly going to be the holiday of a lifetime – but not quite in the way Evie imagines!
‘Colgan at her warm, down-to-earth best’
Cosmopolitan
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DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND
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Sophie Chesterton has been living the high life of glamorous parties, men and new clothes, never thinking about tomorrow. But after one shocking evening, she comes back down to earth with the cruellest of bumps. Facing up to life in the real world for the first time, Sophie quickly realises that when you’ve hit rock bottom, the only way is up.
Join her as she starts life all over again: from cleaning toilets for a living to the joys of bring-your-own-booze parties; from squeezing out that last piece of lip gloss from the tube to bargaining with bus drivers.
For anyone who’s ever been scared of losing it all, this book is here to show you money can’t buy you love, and best friends are so much more fun than diamonds …
‘Jenny Colgan always writes an unputdownable, page-turning bestseller – she’s the queen of modern chick-lit’
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND
THE DUMPED
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Now, you obviously, would never, ever look up your exes on Facebook. Nooo. And even if you did, you most certainly wouldn’t run off trying to track them down, risking your job, family and happiness in the process. Posy Fairweather, on the other hand …
Posy is delighted when Matt proposes - on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But a few days later disaster strikes: he backs out of the engagement. Crushed and humiliated, Posy starts thinking. Why has her love life always ended in total disaster? Determined to discover how she got to this point, Posy resolves to get online and track down her exes. Can she learn from past mistakes? And what if she has let Mr Right slip through her fingers on the way?
‘A Jenny Colgan novel is as essential for a week in the sun as Alka Seltzer, aftersun and far too many pairs of sandals’
Heat
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Oh, come on. I am right about this. Beetroot is total horse food. One of the worst sentences I’ve ever heard was after arriving back tired from a trip away, only to be greeted by my other half keenly announcing, ‘You know how you don’t like beetroot? Well, I reckon you’re going to like it my new way.’ I swear, I nearly cried.
