A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
Maple Guinness Bacon Cupcakes are my contribution to the bacon craze. Its a salty and sweet combination with a light bacon-flavored buttercream and the bacon bits adding texture to the batter. The Guinness adds a rich deep flavor, offsetting the
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I had raspberries I wanted to use in muffins, and what goes better with raspberries than chocolate. I found a great recipe on Sally’s Baking Addiction site for raspberry chocolate muffins. I followed the instructions and I got the much
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Everyone I’ve made these for, loves black forest cupcakes. I have made these for my dentist, family, coworkers, and for my sisters’ catered bbq. A hit every time. The thing that makes these cupcakes is the booze. Kirsch is THE
Read moreI was just going through some missing cupcake photos and realized I hadn’t transferred the orange cream cupcakes. These are very dreamy and are like creamsicles in cupcake form!
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The Season of Pumpkin everything has arrived! Its a time I wait for all year long. And since I wanted to make cupcakes for a meeting I’m going to today, it was basically preordained that it would be pumpkin pie
Read moreSo yesterday was my first ever paid catering gig. I don’t know if I’ll make it a full time affair, but I have to admit it was fun to see everyone enjoying the food. Alot of work, with pleasurable results.
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I made these for my mom for Christmas after we had been talking about cakes one day. She mentioned how she always loved the Waldorf red velvet cake. But hadn’t had it for years. So I dug up the recipe
Read moreI was perusing Facebook today and hitting some of my favourite bakery sites. I’m not a great baker. Its too “exact” and seems to be involve alot more precision than throwing various herbs and ingredients together to make supper. And
Read moreI like gingerbread. I don’t even mind the odd gingersnap. And gingerbread men look adorable. But making gingerbread men? Thats another story. So to get that gingerbread man taste in a moist delicious cupcake is the next best thing. I
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