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Mystery Box Cupcake Challenge #8
For February's Mystery Box Cupcake Challenge, the mystery ingredient was chocolate cake - seems like a no brainer, right? The twist was this: with the chocolate cupcake base, you had to incorporate an ingredient not normally paired with chocolate cake. Now, I've had chocolate with many things: cheeses, chili, lime, ginger, all sorts of liquor and ( Read more... ) -
Mystery Box Cupcake Challenge - For Someone Special
A month ago when I started asking my son what he wanted for his 4th birthday, he would reply with the same answer every time:
"I want to have a party at Chuck E. Cheeses and play games and have a strawberry cake."
Sounded simple enough, right? Well, his older sister is very much allergic to strawberries and I didn't want to make multiple cakes - ( Read more... ) -
Cupcake Challenge - ORANGE -
I wish I had a good backstory for my cupcake creation this month, but I don't! The mystery ingredient over at The Sweetest Kitchen's Mystery Box Cupcake Challenge this month is ORANGE.
I took my favorite dark chocolate cupcake recipe and added fresh squeezed orange juice as well as grated orange peel. Chocolate+Orange=YUM!
I knew some orange ( Read more... ) -
Baileys Irish Cream Shortbread Cookies!
These cookies fall somewhere between sugar cookie and shortbread...seriously good, wonderful with a cup of coffee ( Read more... ) -
Cupcake Challenge - Childhood Memories
My mother used to make all my clothes for me when I was little. Lots of pink, lots of purples, lots of frilly cuteness. I usually had a new dress for the first day of school, for picture day, and every holiday you could possibly imagine...all handmade by mom. I was always decked out in gorgeous dresses and wore ribbons in my long hair almost ( Read more... ) -
Mystery Box Cupcake Challenge for July 2010...TEA!
I can't tell you exactly when my love affair with tea began, but I know it was when I was working as a manager for Caribou Coffee in Chicago. Not being a real tea drinker at the time, I would doctor up my hot tea (and coffee) with loads of sugar or honey. After all was said and done, my tea didn't taste much like tea anymore! My palate changed ( Read more... ) -
Oh, I make messes...
Holy cupcake fail yesterday...it's a recipe I've used before that I tweaked to my own specifications and it's turned out every time. Yesterday? Not so much. The cupcakes tasted really good, but had more of a spongecake like texture and a crustier top. Weird. Oh well...I set them aside to figure out what to do with them. What did I end up ( Read more... ) -
The Sweetest Kitchen Challenge - JULY
The mystery ingredient has been announced - TEA! This challenge is super exciting for me, because I've already made tea themed cupcakes before. I've gotten more confident in my cupcake making skills in the past few months...I'm not all that great at decorating, but hey, the cupcakes taste GOOD. -
More cupcakes? OK!
I created this community mainly for The Sweetest Kitchen's Mystery Box Competition. The challenge starts tomorrow, July 1st - I'm curious to see what the mystery ingredient will be!
Stay tuned for the fun stuff...and hopefully yummy stuff.