20.02.07
THESE CUPCAKES LOOK CUTE…
…BUT WATCH OUT LOVERS, THEY PACK A SECRET PUNCH
These little cute handmade cupcakes look all sweet and
innocent, however this February Selfridges predicts these sweet little things
will help all lovers rise to the Valentine’s occasion.
London bakery goddess Cookie Girl has created a range of exclusive aphrodisiac
cupcakes – to ensure everyone can rise to relationship challenges
this February. Aphrodisiac cupcakes – much more tasteful than a little
blue pill…
Cookie Girl has created four cute cupcakes exclusively for Selfridges that
can be delivered directly to a special someone to brighten up their day.
(1) Lift Your Libido cupcake – with a mouth filling
aroma it has a creamy Vanilla overtone. Who needs Viagra when you can naturally
‘Lift your Libido’ with this delectably moist cake made with
vanilla to improve sexual function and almonds to induce passion and increase
longevity.
(2) Adam & Eve cupcake – with a naughtily fruity
inside and a spicy finish-flavoured with banana. Pumped full of hormone
producing bananas and brimming over with blood warming cinnamon, this cake
is going to drive your lover wild, you’d better ‘Adam &
Eve’ it.
(3) Morning Glory cupcake – with a refreshingly
tart with plenty of zingy lemon. Make sure the morning after doesn’t
disappoint with anti-oxidant rich Green Tea to arouse you and vitamin C
packed lemons to restore you and ensure you greet the day with ‘Morning
Glory’.
(4) Feast of Fertility – a moist and deeply satisfying
chocolate cupcake. Ensure your Valentine is a ‘Feast of Fertility’
with this intense chocolate cake subtly pricked with chili pepper, a stimulating
agent that excites the circulation.
Cookie Girl
Baking with love ….
Part Snow White, part Nell Gwynne with a smattering of Little Red, Cookie
girl is the brains behind these cupcakes. Cookie Girl has stepped out of
a fairy tale and entered our world - at Selfridges - in order to remind us
what really matters in life. Friends, family and delicious treats are high
on her agenda.
She debuts at Selfridges on Oxford Street on 1st February to quench your hunger for delicious confections from cookies to fairy cake and beyond. Let her turn your fantasies into a reality....
Her mission is to turn Selfridges’ customers on with sweet, treat baked goods, spreading joy, laughter and happiness with little morsels of her love cooked to perfection. So next month Selfridges will also launch her famous cookies that will be baked fresh in-store.
One bite of her cookies and everything seems better, brighter and sweeter.
Her baking takes you back to childhood and the delicious morsels your mum
and gran used to make and she truly evokes that home cooked taste that so many
of us have lost touch with. She is here to help us celebrate the events
that shape our lives and to make those moments even more memorable.
She will start this Valentine’s with the Baker’s Dozen Basket:
six each & one to share with someone special.
For products, prices, images and further information please contact Selfridges
PR manager Nancy Wainscoat on 020 7318 3638 or email nancy.wainscoat@selfridges.co.uk
or Jenny Hill at ZPR on 020 7896 3206 or email jenny@z-pr.com
Editor’s Notes:
Cookie Flavours
Dark Belgian Chocolate, Milk Belgian Chocolate, White Belgian Chocolate,
Rolled Oat & Sultana
Individual cookies £1.50
Baker’s dozen cookie basket £22.50
Aphrodisiac Cupcakes
Individual cupcakes £1.85
Lift Your Libido Cupcake:
The scent and flavour of vanilla is believed to increase lust. Xanat, the
young daughter of the Mexican fertility goddess, loved a Totonac youth.
Unable to marry him due to her divine nature, she transformed herself into
a plant that would provide pleasure and happiness. Samson courted Delilah
with fragrant almond branchs.
Adam & Eve Cupcake:
After Adam and Eve succumbed to the "Apple" they started covering
their "nudity" with banana leaves rather than fig. Cinnamon was
the attar used by Queen of Sheba to captivate King Solomon.
Morning Glory Cupcake:
In the mid-to-late 16th century geishas gave their clients green tea with
lemon before taking them into a special area called the pleasure quarter.
Feast of Fertility:
The great lover and alchemist Casanova, who drank his cioccolata at Cafe
Florian in Venice, considered chocolate more stimulating than champagne
and called it the "elixir of love".
Ingredients
All Cookies and cupcakes are made with free range eggs and butter. The Cookies
also contain soft brown sugar, white sugar, SR flour and vanilla. The cupcakes
contain as above apart from the brown sugar.
Selfridges stores enquiry line 08708 377 377, customer relations 08708
370 470