Has the spring finally come?! Weather forecast says sunny… and many holidays ahead! To spend some time in nature together with your friends, that’s what Renars Kaupers sings, and encourages us to create our own happenings not to live in those told by news. “Muffins and more” will spend some time in nature as well, two whole days (which happens very rarely) 30th of April and 1st of May we will be off. Nevertheless we will bake like crazy on days before holidays.

Do you remember, I wrote about my favorite muffins – blueberry and raspberry. Well I do like other berries as well. Especially in such weather, when all you want is something fresh. Well fresh muffin with berries is the best choice.

We invite you to try all of them and on pre-holidays – 28th and 29th of April buy a box full of medium size muffins for 6 Lats, a box of XL muffins – for 9 Lats. And to be sure you will get the muffins you love – it is better to order. The email is the same one mnm@muffinsandmore.lv

We wish you all nice and warm holidays and… tasty muffins!!

PS did you notice we have a new berry muffin – blackberry! Please, come and taste it! Cheers!

I see we are baking more and more cakes. So it’s not only muffins you like. Of course there is a certain charm in cakes – cutting and sharing.. opportunities of taste. This is red velvet smiley cake. Choose what you want to have on yours

Although there is no way without muffins!

Dear muffin fans. We are the biggest muffin fans ourselves. So big that it’s not enough with just eating them, we even use the images of muffins on clothes! As I informed before – now you can buy baking cups at our cafe. Of course you are baking muffins yourselves at home, and it’s not enough with just an oven, therefore we have decided slowly to gather and sell all the things needed for baking process. It will be useful if you suggest and comment what things you would be willing to buy.

But such pretty things as colorful aprons we already do have! For kids and moms. Also some sweet greeting cards. Kitchen gloves will follow soon. Til later!

As I promised – some pictures from the wedding in purple shades.

In all the English speaking countries this exact cake is the most popular.The total amount of cupcakes are usually calculated to the amount of guests at the wedding, but if you still want to hold on the tradition of cutting the cake in pieces at midnight, you can do it with the cake on the top of the stand as you see in the picture. It’s a small cake, which can be decorated with flowers or the figures of the wedding couple.

This is why a cupcake tower has been chosen for a wedding, variations are endless – colours, decorations, position…

If you want something for your wedding, you are welcome to contact us and we will try to fulfill your wish. Internet is full with ideas and pictures. If you know a good address, let’s share, send your ideas right here – publish them in comments.

We have ordered a big, beautiful cupcake stand just for such cases. We know the baking process very well, we know the best combination for taste, but if you have something special on your mind – we are ready to help!

Where else would the small cupcakes look nice? Together with the champagne at the church or somewhere else just after the engagement.

Look in the Galleries, I added more pictures of festivals and special events, and will try to update as soon as we have more new festivals.

Cupcakes seem good not only at wedding – have you got something else on your mind?!

Many of you have already noticed that we are baking macaroons (french – macaron), round shaped colourful cookies, which are melting in the mouth. Recently they have become very popular, I see our Anna baking pans and pans. Today I’m watching.  The green ones.

Macaroons come from France, they consist of two round cookies with filling inside, usually jam or butter cream.  Some might think the price isn’t appropriate, it’s just a small cookie, but those expenses are in the ingredients of the cookie.

Macaroon is made of almond flour, and the almond flour consists of chopped almonds. We add egg whites, sugar, desired colour and the dough is ready. Time to cover the pan.

When the cookies are ready (approx 20 min), let’s wait until they cool down and then we can add fillings.

In these we fill vanilla cream and cover it with the slice of banana!

When everything’s done, the cookies are added together and the macaroon is ready! We can put them in shelves together with other colours!

So far we are baking macaroons in these colours: yellow: lemon-vanilla, orange: orange-caramel, green: kiwi-banana, blue: blueberry-mascarpone cream, light brown: cinnamon, dark brown: chocolate, pink: raspberry.

Macaroons for Easter?

The colourful macaroon cookie is not very different from a coloured Easter egg by looks. There will definitely be those who wouldn’t manage to colour eggs, and even if will – a box of macaroons for celebrating (for kids maybe?) in addition to coloured eggs will be the best choice! We are offering this great opportunity! The first 10 ones who will order a box (25 cookies) of macaroons with a 40 percent discount! But order till tomorrow (4th of April) 12:00 (lunch time), because we need to plan the time for baking them, so Friday you can collect the box! Send an email to order@muffinsandmore.lv, and let’s keep in touch! Have a happy Easter!

Hi! Do you remember when I told you that at our place on Blaumaņa street it will be possible to celebrate your parties, but that’s not it – we give you an opportunity to bake muffins yourselves!

The first party has been held and how did it go i am now showing to you in those pictures, so you get the feeling how it actually is and what to expect!

Both – grownups and kids were attending this specific party. But as it turned out, the muffin baking can be interesting for everybody. Especially if you have an opportunity to experiment. Well, we give it you here at our place!

We offer you to choose what to fill in your muffins. Before the party the only thing to do is to agree on what fillings do you want – fruits, creams, chocolate chips. Do you want some creams and icings to decorate your muffins after baking them.

If something is not going how you have imagined or you don’t really know how to do some things, there will be always someone of us to help you. Māra here is not only very skillful in muffin baking but also helps in teaching you the best ways, so muffins become pretty and tasty in the end.

Grownups are smart and willing to experiment on their own, but for the kids parties – we will always provide you with a nice baker of us, who will teach and help the kids – to bake and decorate!

But when the muffin cups are filled it’s time to put them in the owen and wait for the result.

What to say – the result is succesful, we can light the candles and celebrate. Thanks to the guests for sharing their pictures and if you suddenly get the idea to celebrate your party at our place (and bake the cake on spot) please contact us and let’s organize it!

My favorite muffins are blueberry and raspberry. They are also the most pretty muffins by looks. Although all the berries in bright colors look very nice in the light muffin dough.

Have you ate a blueberry muffin in other countries? They use to be the most popular. Americans in many ways are shocking and unbelievable (in good sense). 11th of July is the National blueberry muffin day. Are we going to celebrate? Why not? I will remind you about this later, but now.. Speaking of amount of bilberries in our muffin – it’s not 2 or 3 berries, and it is not a jam (as many might think). Those are real bilberries (and raspberries) and we use a lot of those in each muffin. Check the pictures!

They are my favorite also because my favorite berry is blueberry, but raspberries – it’s a great combination! A bit more sour berries in the sweet muffin dough. Also the chocolate muffin with raspberries is a very successful and tasty combination. There are situation when our customers order blueberry muffins in the chocolate dough – seems a bit strange, but if you like it, we’re willing to bake it! Actually that’s how the chocolate raspberry muffin started. In the beginning we were a bit surprised about such customers choice, but now we see that many of us like it and it’s very popular!

Variations about the subject blueberry and raspberry… Blueberry wholegrain muffin. In the shelves you can recognize it because it has oatmeal flakes sprinkled on it. And raspberries – what could go good together with those? It’s for those who love more sour – sea-buck thorn. Looks very good as well!

Wait for the next report from Muffins and more with beautiful pictures, so you can read about what’s happening here and rejoice about the pictures, but as soon as your job is over – come visit us and start tasting! Find and enjoy your favorite muffin!

Now when our rooms are so big, there is space enough for coffee drinkers/muffin eaters, parties and also for our new project – to sell things related to muffins. Have you tried to bake muffins yourself at your home? There are several important things to make it possible. One of them – a cup for the muffin.

Now it’s possible to buy muffin baking cups at our place. We will get them in more colors, types and sizes soon, but at the moment we have – in one color, with flowers, dots and hearts. It’s not that we only like muffins but also pretty things! Soon I will post pictures with the beautiful aprons we are going to sell. For now – we hope that muffins you are baking taste just as good as ours!

Already this Monday we opened the door of our new cafe on Blaumaņa street 9. At the moment it’s not so busy here as on Ģertrūdes, but I guess you need some time to notice, to get used to it and finally to start liking it! These new wide and light rooms! Every day we get in something new – shelves, small toys, internet! We believe that these rooms will soon get crammed just as it happened on Ģertrūdes.

Every day our regulars on Ģertrūdes street are asking: is that it? The empty kitchen could make you think that Muffins and more is over. No, no, you will always get freshly baked muffins also on Ģertrūdes. Maybe someone has already noticed – every morning and during the day we deliver muffins in boxes from Blaumaņa where all the baking is happening at the moment.

We definitely needed bigger space for baking. Yesterday specially for the women day we were preparing colorful sugar flowers on cupcakes. It made me remember how it all started. The first cupcakes we made. We were thinking of ways how to make them look attractive, colorful, taste good. Will Latvians understand it? And do they? Recently I noticed that even in “Lido” they are selling something alike

I was thinking to myself – how beautiful cakes we have! How beautiful our shelves look!

Very soon I will inform you about our future plans, but now – come visit us and enjoy our treats. Also the 2 new cupcakes – the chocolate one with the caramel filling and salty peanuts on top and the one made of the light base mixed with the pieces of pineapple and coconut on top!