‘Sparkle Cupcakes’ are for celebrating and Christmas is the perfect excuse to spoil yourself and the ones you love. Sparkle Cupcakery will have something for everyone to indulge in this Christmas including Chocolate Candy Cane to Christmas Spice seasonal cupcakes. With cupcakes being sold throughout David Jones food halls, Bondi Junction and Sydney CBD as well as the Sparkle Surry Hills store, Christmas cupcakes will be available right throughout December 2010.  

Indulge in traditional Gingerbread Men or a selection of fresh out of the oven peppermint and chocolate flavoured cupcakes featuring crushed candy cane and a delicious chocolate topping. Perhaps a little spice will help you spread the Christmas cheer; indulge in a spice cupcake with brandy butter cream.

Each Sparkle cupcake is made from scratch and baked fresh every day. Sparkle sources the highest quality ingredients including free range eggs, creamy butter, the world's best vanilla and Belgian chocolate…YUM!

Other seasonal delights at Sparkle this year include Eggnog cupcakes with a gooey centre to melt the coolest of hearts, available only at the Surry Hills store.

A half dozen box of cupcakes costs $27, 1 dozen box of mini cupcakes are $33 and come stylishly packaged in the black Sparkle box with seasonal a red and silver ribbon. Extra Christmas trimmings available on cupcakes in store for $5 per box. All cupcakes will be available in mini sizes for those tiny hands or the less indulgent (THAT’S ME, I like to put it all in my mouth!!)

For those who wish to learn how to make and bake Christmas cupcakes, Sparkle is offering course’s where one can learn to make the Chocolate Candy Cane and Christmas Spice cupcakes on 10^th, 21^st of November and 5^th, 8^th of December. Gingerbread cooking making classes are available for tots and teens on December 18^th. For all course bookings call the Sparkle store on (02) 9361 0690.

I am especially proud of this 2 page spread on Christmas cocktails made by gorgeous Stefano at the new Bacco Wine Bar QVB just opened in Sydney in October, 2010. Being an Italian wine bar, the cocktails are all made with an Italian twist - the venetian spritzer is by far one of my favourites, delicious after looong hard day at the office J Enjoy!

Magnet PR & Events did some recent work with Mandalay Flowers, Sydney’s eastern suburbs ‘society florist’ located on Cross Street in Double Bay. I personally like many others have a soft spot for beautiful flowers especially when it comes to setting the mood for events of all kinds, flowers are an absolute must. I also believe that sending flowers as a token of thanks and to express LOVE is a gesture that will never date or tire.

Check out this months issue of HOME IDEAS Magazine and see Louise’s advice on ‘Flowers for the table’.

PS: If anyone wants to end me some peonies, in season now…. I would always graciously accept J