Anyone who has been paying the least bit of attention to this blog in the last week or so knows that I’ve been doing a lot of spring and Easter related baking.  I thought I would do a little roundup of the themed cupcakes, hopefully in time for you all to be inspired into making [...]

My previous post showed off the cutest little chicks in the form of cupcake pops.  While I was making those, I also wanted to make bunnies to go along with the whole Easter theme.  Bakerella, who has demonstrated her cupcake pops on Martha Stewart, had a version of bunnies on her site, but I was [...]

Anyone who enjoys reading baking blogs will know the this design is not my creation.  While there are a good many of us who wish these adorable cupcake pops were from our imaginations, these fine little creatures are from Bakerella. Spring has just sprung and Easter is a short time away.  I am headed to [...]

Crumb cake, which is not to be confused with good ole streusel-topped coffee cake, has been around for ages and ages.  In New York, it arrived in the late 1800s, when the German immigrants  started sharing their recipe for krummel kuchen. New York bakeries started making their own version, using a traditional yeasted Danish dough, [...]

Inspired by two upcoming events — Halloween and my nephew’s first birthday — I decided to try my hand at making some of the animal cupcakes in the adorable book, Hello, Cupcake! I decided to choose a recipe and decorating scheme that seemed only moderately labor intensive, but still fun. Decorating cupcakes, for me, is [...]

Everyone should have a go-to easy chocolate frosting recipe.  This is a recipe that I’ve used as an all-purpose recipe for years.  Unlike canned frosting, it has a rich, buttery taste and it dries down to a more solid finish.  That makes it nice for decorating, too. Easy Chocolate Frosting Recipe 1 stick of butter, [...]

The restaurant where I work is known for providing the area with a generous lox platter unlike anything else to be found for miles.  It’s one of our most popular dishes, selling like mad every weekend. I am the resident baker (surprise, surprise) and when I saw the bagels and lox cupcakes in the wonderful [...]

One night before bed, I was paging through a borrowed copy of Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook when I stumbled upon a gorgeous loaf of what appeared to be a chocolate lover’s wonderland:  Chocolate Babka. My husband, seeing my wide eyes and the drool rolling down my chin, declared that it looked like something right up [...]

For the holidays, my mother-in-law gave me a book, Ultimate Cake Mix Book. It’s a small book, but it has many ideas, especially for those who don’t want to take the time to make a cake from scratch. It’s also full of cake mix recipes that have nothing to do with cake. It has cookie [...]

It’s nearly 10:00 in the evening where I live, and those of you who know me, even remotely, know that it’s about 90 minutes past my bedtime. But I’ve been awake, tooling around online and catchup up on some much needed blog reading. Only moments ago, my eyes feasted upon what quite possibly could be [...]