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July Cupcake

posted by Lisa on July 30th, 2010

Here’s my cupcake of the month, just in the nick of time! I was really craving chocolate, last weekend, but never got around to making the cupcakes. I had some extra time, yesterday evening, and whipped these up. I used the chocolate cupcake recipe on joyofbaking.com and a peanut butter frosting recipe from allrecipes.com.

They [...]

Taste the rainbow [cupcake]

posted by Lisa on May 20th, 2010

Today has been all sorts of awesome. Andrew actually slept in and so I got to putter around in the morning. After breakfast, he noticed my [naked] cupcakes on the table and promptly requested one. I couldn’t deny the birthday boy a cupcake, so I split it with him. He loved it. A little bit [...]

Chocolate attack!

posted by Lisa on April 16th, 2010

I made cookies, today. I used this recipe. I only had about 6oz of chocolate chips, so I ended up melting 3 and then folding 3 into the batter. I also added about half a teaspoon of cinnamon and half a teaspoon of chipotle chili powder into the cocoa-flour mixture. The spice is like a [...]

I Heart Desserts!

posted by Lisa on April 11th, 2010

I always want seconds. That’s how I remember how to spell the word. It’s true, though. Ask my gut.

If you’re friends with me on Flickr, you probably saw this photo, last week.
#4 on my 25 before 26 list was to try a new cupcake recipe each month. I JUST made the deadline, as it was [...]

365.163: cupcake bites

posted by Lisa on June 12th, 2009

these came out so cute I could punch somebody. I made ~3 dozen. They’re packaged and ready for my boys’ birthday party tomorrow!

they were made following the tutorial on bakerella’s blog. I didn’t dip the tops, though. instead, I just swirled the candy with a bottle. makes it look like they’re really frosted!

(devil’s food cake [...]

365.30: cookie

posted by Lisa on January 30th, 2009

one of many oatmeal-raisin-walnut cookies, baked using this recipe for my dad on his birthday. using my awesome cookie scoop, I got over 4 dozen cookies!