Missing - one excellent recipe

Dear readers,

Well, Sophie (I think that you might still be the only one out there in cyberspace who is following my homespun efforts), I have lost...well I think at this time I might prefer the word mislaid, the truly stupendous Crumbs and Doilies mint choc chip cupcake recipe that I made the other week.

Last night I thought that I would today make some simple little vanilla and choc chip cupcakes, with delicious vanilla frosting on the top and that I would use the C&D recipe for the frosting, only sans mint and green colouring. So whilst my cakes were doing their thing in the oven I decided to get the recipe at the ready, and strap me vitals, I can't find it.

I have paced the kitchen, looked in my recipe folder and in there is everything but what I want, I have opened my "Bake" cookbook, which is where I last hid the cutting.....ooooh, just had a thought.....

I am something of a fool. I suddenly thought when I was writing the above paragraph 'what else did I make on the day that I made the minty cakes? Aah, yes, some Nigella vanilla cupcakes. I wonder, would I have left the cutting inside "How to be a Domestic Goddess"??'. I sprang to my feet, so loudly that it awoke the slumbering Rex-pup, tore into the kitchen, over to cookery book corner, snatched Nige off the shelf and even as I held the mighty tome in my hands I could see the top of the cutting peeping out as if to torment me.

Crisis averted, recipe found, normality restored...but probably briefly.

p.s. is 11.28am too early for a shattered nerve restoring G&T? It would be medicinal after all...no, you're probably right, it would the slippery slope to ruin.