June 27, 2011 •

Red Velvet Brownies with White Chocolate Buttercream

My birthday is Thursday, the big 2-9. Yep, about to enter the last year of my twenties! Where has the time gone?!? My mom is out of town this week and wanted to celebrate with me before she left so they came over this weekend. She wanted to make something special for me and so […]

February 14, 2011 •

One Bowl Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

Happy Valentine’s Day! Hope you all have a great one! Ours is going to be very low key with dinner at home and games on the Wii, I think. Just good quality time together. To me Valentine’s equals chocolate. Since my valentine is crazy over cupcakes, I made these chocolate cupcakes from Martha. They are […]

May 19, 2009 •

Strawberry Limeade Cupcakes

I also made some desserts for our gathering, and while not completely mexican, these still said party! I found these Cherry Limeade Cupcakes on Annie’s Eats, but since I’m not super crazy about cherry in my desserts, I decided to use strawberry in the icing instead. The icing is from Culinary Concoctions by Peabody. These […]

April 29, 2009 •

Vanilla Almond Cake with Strawberry Filling

I had been planning on making a chocolate layer cake for our dinner party, but it was such a gorgeous and hot day outside, that I thought that might be too heavy. I immediately thought of doing a yellow cake with some sort of strawberry filling. However, I couldn’t really find a recipe that I […]

April 10, 2009 •

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream

Adam absolutely loves cupcakes. He adores them. So, naturally for his birthday he requested that I make cupcakes. He said that he wanted chocolate chip cupcakes with chocolate frosting, so I obliged. I had seen this recipe for chocolate chip cupcakes in Martha Stewart Living in February and thought it would be perfect. It turned […]

March 10, 2009 •

Honey Bun Cake

This cake is AH-MAZING!!! Oh my goodness, you have got to try this cake. It is super moist and just overall delicious! Plus, it is lower in fat than normal because it uses egg whites and applesauce instead of regular eggs & oil. I found this when searching for a dessert on allrecipes.com to bring […]

March 3, 2009 •

Black & White Cupcakes

I helped host a bridal shower this past weekend. To save a little money, we all decided to make a batch of cupcakes for the dessert instead of ordering a cake. Since the bride’s colors for the wedding are black & white, my friend, Joy, had the great idea to make chocolate cupcakes with cream […]

February 17, 2009 •

Homemade Hostess Cupcakes

I saw these on Annie’s Eats and just knew I had to make them sometime, so I filed the recipe away for the right opportunity to make them. I thought they would be great to make for our youth retreat because what teenager doesn’t love hostess cupcakes?? These were really good, plus they are super […]

August 14, 2008 •

Magnolia Bakery Cupcakes

These are the cupcakes from the famous Magnolia Bakery in NYC. After going to New York this spring, I’ve been wanting to try these cupcakes for a while now. We saw the Magnolia Bakery when we were there, but were way to full from lunch at John’s Pizza, and it was cold and the line […]