A love for creating recipes, cooking, and sharing tasty food
So Christmas cake seems to be a must-have staple for the holidays. Unfortunately, it’s horrible. The main thing that ruins a Christmas cake are those nasty maraschino cherries and fruit. Followed closely by that even more nasty, sugary, crusted icing
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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
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I recently held a high tea for my sisters (my mom was supposed to come as well, but had to decline due to a bad cold). Everything went over well and as usual, I made way too much food. I
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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 moreThese are my contribution to the bacon craze. Its a salty and sweet combination with the slight bacon flavoured buttercream and the bacon bits adding texture to the batter. The Guinness adds a rich deep flavour, offsetting the sweetness of
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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
Read moreI thought I would put all my icing recipes into one spot. This icing I used on my 2013 Christmas cakes and used for batch of a gingerbread cupcakes to use the rest of the icing. A smooth cream cheese flavour.
Read moreSo in the summer of last year I ended up getting a very nasty sinus infection. Which essentially destroyed some nerves in my nose. I lost my sense of smell for a couple months and when it started to return
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