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350° Classic Bakeshop, awards, blogging, cooking, cupcakes, Fourth of July, photography, sugar cookies
First I was away for a week and then two more weeks passed… is it just me or is there some kind of acceleration in time? Yes I know, this is probably just me these days.
While I was away from my blog, several fellow bloggers kindly nominated me for some awards:
- The One Lovely Blog Award from Bookzine (whose blog disappeared since – guys, if you’re reading me, what happened?), and from Nicole Ftacnik Photography
- The Versatile Blogger Award from Cendriani – Les recettes d’une amoureuse, from Go Bake Yourself, and from Baking Bohemian
- The Blog on Fire Award from Eat Sweet
- The Addictive Blog Award from Go Bake Yourself
What I really appreciate about these awards is two-fold.
From a blogger point of view, of course, it’s always nice to have someone basically tell you “hey, I read your blog, I like it and I want you and my readers to know.”
From a blog reader point of view, I love-love-love to check the nominated blogs, because if I like a blog and go visit it regularly enough, chances are that I would like this blog’s choices too. And it is such a nice way to make lovely discoveries!
So thank you all very very much for visiting my blog, commenting at times, liking some posts. Thanks to the above-mentioned bloggers for these awards. This is very much appreciated because I love visiting your blogs!
Since I had already received the Versatile Blogger Award, I will not go through the process again. But thank you to Cendriani, Choc Chip Uru, and Baking Bohemian. Don’t hesitate to visit their blogs if you haven’t already, you won’t regret it!
Now for all three other awards, I hope everyone will forgive me if I try to gain some precious time: since most awards kind of have the same rules of acceptance (thanking and linking back to the blog who nominated you, sharing stuff about yourself, and nominating between 5 and 15 blogs), I am going to bring them together. [If you want to follow the rules for each award, you can of course find them from the blogs that nominated me, links to posts at the beginning of this post)
Thank you to Nicole Ftacnik Photography, Go Bake Yourself, and Eat Sweet.
Here are 5 things about me and why I blog:
1. One recent obsessional hobby of mine is food photography
2. New York was my first ever American destination and remains, so far, my favorite city in the world
3. Second favorite city ever is Lugano, Switzerland, third is (no, not Paris) St-Germain en Laye, France
4. I’m definitely a (crazy?) cat person
5. I like writing a lot more than I like talking
Blogging makes me work on at least points 1, 2, 4, and 5 :-)
And here are the 10 bloggers I would like to nominate for all three awards:
– Coolcookstyle
– Cendriani
– Bam’s Kitchen
– Words and Herbs
– Myau Myau’s photo gallery
– The Foodery
– Serenity Spell
– Grenobloise
– Koplona Cuisine
– This Clever Camera
Happy visiting everyone and thanks again!
Now as promised in the title of this post, I wanted to share some pics of desserts we treat ourselves with on the Fourth of July. Since tomorrow is Bastille Day, and France’s colors are the same, just in a different order: blue, white, and red (bleu, blanc, rouge), maybe you can find some inspiration if you want to celebrate!
First some treats from a bakery not too far from where we live, that I hope to be able to talk about a little more soon. They make the most delicious cupcakes! This is 350° Classic Bakeshop in Rye, NY.
Below are sugar cookie stars followed by 2 vanilla cupcakes and 2 chocolate fudge peanut butter cupcakes
For dinner (yes, what you just saw was for the rest of the day ;-) I wanted to do something special myself and was inspired by this recipe of 4th of July Fresh Berry Trifles (and yes, that was the smallest star cookie cutter I had ;-).
They were very good and fresh!
Now I’ll tackle the translation into French… Have a nice weekend everyone!
Choc Chip Uru said:
Congrats on so many awards my friend, you deserve them all :D
I am LOVING this bakery what gorgeous food!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
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Carine said:
Thank you so much!
The bakery is making special cupcakes for every holiday and they not only look good, they do taste good :-)
Have a nice weekend!
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Bam's Kitchen said:
Loving all of your red, white and blue treats. All look so very delicious. Thank you very kindly for thinking of me. Take Care, BAM
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Carine said:
You’re very welcome! I enjoy reading your blog :-)
Take care too!
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thefoodery said:
What gorgeous treats, and thank you very much for the awesome nominations, Carine! :)
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Carine said:
You’re welcome, I really like reading your colorful recipes and to see your cats always interested in what you’ve prepared ;-)
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baconbiscuit212 said:
Félicitations! Congratulations on so many awards! You deserve it :-)
And thank you so much for the nomination in turn. I feel very honored!
Beautiful cupcakes and cookies too. I wouldn’t expect anything less :-)
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Carine said:
Merci :-)
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Desi Chick said:
Congratulations on all your awards my friend. Thank you for nominating me, what an honor. I always freak out when I get these because I don’t know who to nominate and do an Ostrich move. :)
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Carine said:
Thank you!
Oh I can understand that :-)
Have a nice weekend!
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Cathy said:
Congratulations on all your awards! Much deserved. And thanks again for nominating me! Happy blogging! :D
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Carine said:
Thank you! And you’re welcome! I love your blog, it is so original and beautiful :-)
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FeyGirl said:
CONGRATS, and so many thanks for the nomination! I always love visiting your beautiful blog… And I can’t wait to investigate your other noms! Thanks again, from one (crazy??) cat person to another. :)
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Carine said:
Thanks!
It’s always an anticipated pleasure to read your informative posts :-)
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Lisa at fLVE said:
Congratulations and those pictures of cookies and cupcakes, etc look very yummy indeed. :)
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Carine said:
Thank you :-)
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thecompletecookbook said:
Congratulations on the wonderful accolades. Lovely shots.
:-) Mandy
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Carine said:
Thank you!
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grenobloise said:
Congrats Carine and such lovely cupcakes! I love how the made the American flag. Thanks for nominating me. xo
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Carine said:
Thanks :-)
They were very good on top of it!
And you’re very welcome!
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