Something Yummy to Make After Shopping At Fifi Wilson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For the cupcakes:

Source: Magnolia’s Vanilla Cupcakes from Food Network

Yield: 24 standard cupcakes

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups (190 grams/6.5 ounces) self-rising flour

1 1/4 cups (160 grams/5.5 ounces) all-purpose flour

1 cup (2 sticks/227 grams/8 ounces) unsalted butter, softened

2 cups (400 grams/14 ounces) white sugar

4 large eggs, at room temperature

1 cup (250 mL) milk

1 teaspoon (5 mL) pure vanilla extract

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 standard muffin tins with cupcake liners of your choice (24 total).

2. In a small bowl, combine the flours and set aside.

3. In a large bowl, on the medium speed of an electric mixer, cream the butter until smooth. Add the sugar gradually and beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.

4. Add the dry ingredients in 3 parts, alternating with the milk and vanilla. With each addition, beat until the ingredients are incorporated but do not over beat. Using a rubber spatula, scrape down the batter in the bowl to make sure the ingredients are well blended.

5. Carefully spoon the batter into the cupcake liners ( to ensure consist cupcake sizes) and bake in middle of oven until tops turn golden brown and toothpick inserted into center comes out just clean (a few crumbs is okay), about 18 minutes.

6. Cool the cupcakes in tins for 15 minutes. Remove from the tins and cool completely on a wire rack before icing.

For the frosting:

Ingredients

3 sticks (340 grams/12 ounces) unsalted butter, softened and cut into cubes

5 cups (625 grams/22 ounces) confectioners’ sugar (icing, powdered)

2 tablespoons (30 mL) milk

2 teaspoons (10 mL) pure vanilla extract

pinch of salt

Method

1. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip butter for 5 minutes on medium speed  Butter will become very pale & creamy.

2. Add remaining ingredients and mix on low speed for 1 minute, then on medium speed for 5 minutes. Frosting will be very light, creamy, and fluffy.

3. Add touch of gel food colour, if desired and mix until blended.

4. Best used right away.

 

 

 

A Trip to Oz?

Having a rough time? Is the weather getting to you, and your day to day life exhausting and hard to handle? Fifi Wilson has just the right thing for you! SHOES, SHOES, SHOES!

Shoes can transform your mood from miserable and gloomy to joyous and fabulous, so use the shoe treatment this January! Treat yourself to glittering silver jewel ballet flats from Essentiel this month!

These gorgeously romantic and super comfortable flats provide a fun, yet elegant twist to the rock-glam look leaving you feeling glam and tres chic!

These lovely and classic flats will have you springing around town like Dorothy in Oz!  I know hers were red and glittery, but since this is London, I’m sure we can make a little exception!

Come shop online at fifiwilson.com or visit one of our boutiques now and pick up a lovely end of month treat! We look forward to seeing you soon!

Goodbye Covent Garden : Fifi Wilson’s Big Closing Down Sale

We have Loved Covent Garden and our sweet Fifi Wilson store in the heart of the fabulous Seven Dials area on Monmouth Street, but all good things must come to an end.  So after almost five wonderful years, we are saying Goodbye to our Covent Garden shop and Hello to new beginnings!

At the start of February our Fifi Wilson store on Monmouth Street which is one of the oldest trading streets in London, even mentioned in Dicken’s novels, will be closing it’s doors for the last time.

Come down to Monmouth Street and secure yourself some amazing SALE buys starting at as little as £13 ! With gorgeous dresses from By Malene Birger and TBA- To be Adored and Elizabeth Lau and American Retro Classic must-haves at only £50 or £75 and Marc by Marc Jacobs and Vivetta pieces for an amazing £100, who could resist?

It’s the perfect chance for you to shop that adorable Winter wardrobe that you have always been dreaming about, and to say goodbye to Fifi Wilson in Covent Garden! We will miss you all!

Hurry, as stock is slipping away fast!

 

Candy Cakes Galore

Right next to the adorable Fifi Wilson store in Covent Garden’s Seven Dials, Monmouth Street sits the girlie, pink and uber cute Candy Cakes store for cupcakes, coffees and shakes!

The Legally Blonde Poster in the window and promotional cards for two tickets for just £50 really says it all: OMIGOD! This is my new favourite cafe in London! (My absolute obsession with Legally Blonde the musical is a whole different story, realy. Fact is: I love Elle and pink stuff and little dogs and cupcakes!)

The sweets and cupcakes scream Elle Woods, draped in pink shades and decorated with pretty flowers and hearts! Though the cafe is tiny, rosey and cute interior designs and low poofs and tables establish the perfect feel! Where ever you look, you’re blinded by lovely shades of green and pink  and purple and cupcakes that look like they could have been drawn for a Disney movie!

The Chanel, D&G, Dior and LV Cupcakes are the perfect treat for fashionistas on the go, and super sweet as a little pressie to bring along to a girls night in! (They simply CRY for a sleepover party!)

With offers that include buying four candy cakes and getting a cupcake or coffee for free, it’s no wonder I see literally every second person on the street sporting a fabulously pink and green Candy Cakes to-go bag!

How about making an afternoon of it, and shopping some gorgeous sale items up to 70% off at Fifi Wilson, and then heating up with a hot chocolate and marshmallows and a little treat at Candy Cakes?

So in Love with the Bakery

Friday, I wake up late-ish and manage to sip at my boiling hot coffee before starting with my singing warm-ups for the day. If I’m feeling really awesome, I might sing through an aria or two before hitting Virgin Active gym and hitting those power plates! Then its off to a singing lesson and some really hard work. I love my life, I love my life, I love my life.

My Friday reward for making it through the week : a trip to the cutest, best and sweetest bakery in Chelsea! LoveBakery on the Kings Road has that magical way of making every week and every day better with just one (or two) delish cupcake!

It was the place I would hide out in, in my sweatpants and big hat when the answer to all of my problems seemed to be hidden inside of a strawberry cheesecake cupcake. The bakery I could always rely on to pick up some sweet sensations for a girls night, or a snack while strolling up the Kings Road on a shopping spree to Chelsea Green and Fifi Wilson.

Sam, the owner would often pop in to our Chelsea Fifi shop with a box of cakes to brighten up our afternoon.

With absolute horror, I found out that while I was enjoying my Christmas vacation away from London, the lovely LoveBakery shut it’s doors for the last time

We will miss LoveBakery at Fifi Wilson, my Fridays will never be the same again! We love you!

A Hot Night, What Ever You Do!

Some times, no matter what you do or who you are with, you’re just not feelin’ it. Out with a bunch of girls for cocktails in the hottest new bar in town, and still feel like you’re anything but fun? Would you rather be in your P.J.’s 24/7 with a cup of hot tea and an old Disney movie running than exposing yourself to the world? I could literally write a song about it. (I do own a keyboard at home, and have actually composed a tune…)

Those times are SO O.V.E.R! It’s a New Year, and a new and fresh start! Get those dancing shoes on and hit the town! Or at least your local cinema…

No matter what you decide to get up to, with this sexy lace and velvet Vivetta shirt, you are in for a hot night! I love this wonderful piece of awesome-ness!

Look and feel fabulous all of the time! Perfect for everything from a night out with the girls to a romantic dinner for two to a night in on the sofa (with or with out company)!

Wanna know a secret? This wonderful piece of heaven is now 50% off! Wohoo!! Shop online or in one of our three stores, and in the words of Pink: Get this party started!

What are you waiting for, girls?

There is only ONE Sale

You guessed right: The Fifi Wilson Winter Sale is here!

How could anyone hold back, when their all time favourite pieces by Elizabeth Lau, Des Petits Hauts, Local, Maison Scotch and many more are now up to an amazing 70% off? The cold winter months have only just begun, and the Winter Collection is at a wonderful 50% off, what a great way to start the New Year!

Shop breath-taking camel and grey/dark brown coats by Snob, wonderful grey with leather embedded American Retro jackets and pinstripe Laundry Industry blazers and coats, and survive the rest of the Winter in Style!

Get your hands on a cosy Heart Breaker or Pearly Princess Elizabeth Lau lambswool jumper and feel French and fabulous in Des Petits Hauts velvet shorts and super cute basics!

The timing has never been better!

Hurry though, since sizes and pieces go quick!

See you in Edinburgh, Chelsea or Covent Garden soon, or have fun shopping online at www.fifiwilson.com!

 

Don’t Forget to Spa!

This is just a reminder for all of you busy Chelsea ladies out there!

You have until December 22nd to Spa at the fantastic, luxurious and glamourous Hand and Foot Spa on Fulham Road with a 10% discount if you Shop at Fifi Wilson!

Come into our Fifi Wilson Chelsea store and mention the Hand and Foot Spa on Fulham Road and receive a fabulous 20% discount on the new collection! Great deal, right?

It’s definitely that time of year, where your mind and body craves a spa treatment! What could be more blissful this month than getting your hands and feet rubbed and polished up to look and feel as fabulous as you you all are! With heating on everywhere, I recommend the Almond treatment at the Hand and Foot Spa, which will leave you feeling smooth and pampered to the bone!

Get your Christmas outfit and gifts for your loved ones in style this Season! Fifi Wilson is making the Holiday a little bit more jolly for you! Shop adorable Matthew Williamson knits in store or the most elegant yet easy to wear Roberto Collina collection (not available online) you’ll love many seasons to come!

We look forward to seeing you at the Chelsea Store all pampered and Spa-ed up!

Get Spa-ing and shopping, ladies! What better way to spend the pre-Christmas Season?!

Wearable Winter Fashion

The weather is getting frosty, the days are dark and grey and short! The nights are long and cold! Sparkling decorations all around town and as you stroll down a residential side street, you catch glimpses of Christmas Trees and candles in every home! It’s the Season to be jolly!

And to keep warm and snuggled up in cashmere at home on the sofa with a hot cup of tea and Elvis rocking those Christmas carols!

What to wear when you do have to leave the comfort of your home though? I have shrunk four inches and stored my sky-high heels in the back of my closet weeks ago! Instead I have dug out favourites such as adorable Matthew Williamson knits and Des Petits Hauts jumpers to keep me warm!

A little short on stylish comfort wear this Season? No problem! Shop at Fifi Wilson online, to avoid the cold, or come by one of our stores and stock up on those essential fashionable yet wearable casual chic staples!

Cardigans from Local paired with some berry coloured Milly cords will leave you feeling and looking hot!

We look forward to seeing you soon!!! Till then, keep warm and Merry Christmas!

 

Christmas Carols in Chelsea Green!

 

Christmas Time has come to London Town and Chelsea Green is celebrating with the annual Christmas Carol Evening on Tuesday December 20th from 6: 30pm!

Hit Chelsea and get your last minute Christmas shopping done  at Fifi Wilson before the big day and  join us Chelsea Green-ers for some “Oh come all ye faithful”!

We look forward to seeing you all at the store on the 20th and singing your heart out with a cup of mulled wine and some Christmas spirit!

 

Twas the Night before Christmas Poem
By Clement Moore

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.

The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.
And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tinny reindeer.

With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

“Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! On, Cupid! on, on Donner and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings, then turned with a jerk.
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose!

He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle.
But I heard him exclaim, ‘ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night!”

 

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