One week after I placed my order for green tea powder (also called matcha) it arrived in my mailbox, and one day later, today, I baked my green tea cupcakes. With my two wild children running around under my feet, I had some unfortunate mishaps – I spilled flour on the floor, I spilled about [...]
I love Nutella. I can’t stand to be without it. And I am always on the search for new Nutella recipes. I decided to try, as my first Nutella recipe, the popular self-frosting Nutella cupcake from Donna Hay. They turned out nicely, but here are some things I didn’t like about the cupcake. First, the [...]
In my search for a coffee and banana cupcake, I decided to try the following combination. Mocha cupcakes from Genius of a Cook: Obviously I did not use the Kahlua frosting, but I can say that these are the best mocha cupcakes. They were so soft, delicate and moist and had just a hint of [...]
My neighborhood group held a cookout today at our playground/park, where they were also having a bake-off and bake sale. I decided to enter in my favorite cupcakes – exactly the same as these, except with dark chocolate shavings instead of sprinkles, and thicker, more stiff frosting. This is how they turned out. They came [...]
I’m not a huge fan of limes, but I could not resist this recipe for key lime cupcakes with white chocolate and coconut frosting. Unfortunately, there was no buttermilk at the store I bought my ingredients from so I had to fall back on a substitution. Put one tablespoon of white vinegar into a standard [...]
These are the best cupcakes I have eaten in a while. They are, of course, my standard eggless and butterless chocolate cupcakes with a chocolate frosting recipe I found on the Cupcakes Take The Cake blog. I added the rainbow non-pareils as a treat for my daughter, who loves sprinkles. I used a plain old [...]
I found this recipe while looking for banana cupcakes, which uses a super sweet honey-cinnamon frosting. Fresh bananas are optional, but helped to alleviate the sweetness of the frosting. Recipe from MarthaStewart.com. This recipe uses 1 1/2 cups of mashed banana, so there is definitely a strong banana taste which I loved. I baked these [...]
I saved this recipe from a newspaper article in Sydney, Australia dated from my daughter’s birthday in 2006. I finally got around to making them a few weeks ago! They might have looked nicer had I dusted them with cocoa powder or chocolate shavings. Short Black Cupcakes Originally from Donna Hay Magazine makes 12-14 Ingredients [...]
My husband was teaching a class in his office a few weeks ago but fell ill in the middle of the week. A coworker covered for him for a couple of days, which was a big help to my husband. I baked a batch of my favorite cupcakes as a thank you present. This was [...]
I baked these for a St Patrick’s Day party that my playgroup was having. They are vanilla, with a small dollop of green-tinted batter in the middle of each cupcake, the frosting is the same that I used here. I made a makeshift shamrock stencil for the white-frosted cupcakes, but it didn’t turn out as [...]
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