May 11, 2012 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing At some point during our discussions of Cinco Cuatro de Mayo celebrations last month, your friend and mine, Kristine, asked how I would top the Churro Cupcakes from last year’s festivities. Challenge accepted! Read the full article → May 12, 2011 Beef & Pork   Last week I […]

At some point during our discussions of Cinco Cuatro de Mayo celebrations last month, your friend and mine, Kristine, asked how I would top the Churro Cupcakes from last year’s festivities. Challenge accepted! While last year we had a cinnamon cupcake, dulce de leche filling and cinnamon cream cheese frosting, this year we have: Cinnamon […]

At some point during our discussions of Cinco Cuatro de Mayo celebrations last month, your friend and mine, Kristine, asked how I would top the Churro Cupcakes from last year’s festivities. Challenge accepted! While last year we had a cinnamon cupcake, dulce de leche filling and cinnamon cream cheese frosting, this year we have: Cinnamon […]

At some point during our discussions of Cinco Cuatro de Mayo celebrations last month, your friend and mine, Kristine, asked how I would top the Churro Cupcakes from last year’s festivities. Challenge accepted! While last year we had a cinnamon cupcake, dulce de leche filling and cinnamon cream cheese frosting, this year we have: Cinnamon […]

At some point during our discussions of Cinco Cuatro de Mayo celebrations last month, your friend and mine, Kristine, asked how I would top the Churro Cupcakes from last year’s festivities. Challenge accepted! While last year we had a cinnamon cupcake, dulce de leche filling and cinnamon cream cheese frosting, this year we have: Cinnamon […]

At some point during our discussions of Cinco Cuatro de Mayo celebrations last month, your friend and mine, Kristine, asked how I would top the Churro Cupcakes from last year’s festivities. Challenge accepted! While last year we had a cinnamon cupcake, dulce de leche filling and cinnamon cream cheese frosting, this year we have: Cinnamon […]

I was so excited back in October to finally get my hands on a copy of Baked Occasions. Even though I had a preview of the book after testing out almost a dozen recipes, I couldn’t wait to see what other treats were inside. After the launch party at Baked Tribeca, I went back to […]

As someone who’s been taking pictures of their food for almost six years, I always want the things I bake to look cute. When they don’t, I’m usually disappointed, but take comfort in the fact that if it tastes good, no one really cares what it looks like. I’ve dubbed this category “fugly but delicious” […]

In any office I’ve ever worked in, people go bonkers for free food. And not just delicious treats that I bring in; we’re talking leftover sandwiches from a lunch meeting, huge chunks of honeydew melon (you know that’s always the one section leftover from a fruit tray) or pizza ordered in for a team celebration. […]

As soon as I saw these cookies on Joy the Baker, I knew I would make them for the gluten-free ladies in my life.  I’m not a huge fan of lemon in desserts (I’m a chocolate / butterscotch /peanut butter girl through and through), but something about citrus just makes it perfect for Spring. It would […]

  Let’s talk Whoopie Pies! The previous two versions I’ve blogged about were both from Baked: Red Velvet and Pumpkin, both with cream cheese filling. I was interested in trying these ones mostly because of the filling, a Swiss Vanilla Meringue Icing that I’ve always been too intimidated to try before. They’re notorious for “breaking” and […]

Deb on Smitten Kitchen has been talking a lot lately about making things just because you want to make them, “Find a recipe that sounds good to you and make it immediately. Don’t put it in the queue; don’t save it on that to-cook-one-day list, just dive in and dig in”. While I embrace that […]

Today we’re having a Virtual Baby shower to celebrate our friend Jan, and her baby boy that’ll be here quite soon! Good thing Jan herself is an expert in party planning, so I had a look on her website, Family Bites, and in her book, Gatherings, to see what I could bring to this party. I found […]

The classic version of this blossom-style cookie is a peanut butter cookie with a chocolate Hershey Kiss in the middle. For some unknown reason, I haven’t made those cookies in about 8 years (I remember bringing them to my brother and sister-in-law’s Christmas party pre-nephew) but *SPOILER ALERT* they are currently chilling in my freezer […]