I got a huge surprise for Valentine’s Day from my husband; a chocolate stash. I love the little Starbucks Chocolate Tasting Squares, they are so cute! All those Ghirardelli bars will be used in the future to make cupcakes, brownies and/or cookies! Now, on to our Valentine’s Day cupcakes. They did not turn out how [...]
As if you didn’t already know, today is World Nutella Day. I suggest you start celebrating and eat some Nutella! We have! That is my 3 1/2-year-old daughter enjoying this once-in-a-blue-moon treat straight from the jar. I also want to point everyone in the direction of my Nutella recipes here at The Sweetest Kitchen; namely [...]
Right before I uploaded a photo of the chocolate chip cookie dough cupcakes that I made today, I noticed that How To Eat A Cupcake posted about her chocolate chip cookie doughs that she recently made – talk about a coincidence! Mine are slightly different that her cupcakes, however. I used a very chocolatey cupcake [...]
It’s been a while since I made a great cupcake, with the exception of the gingerbread cupcakes I made for Christmas – I made gingerbread cupcakes, frosted them with Bakerella’s buttercream (with a dash of salt added), and topped them all with a mini gingerbread man from Martha Stewart’s gingerbread cookie recipe. They tasted great. [...]
In my search for a perfect vanilla cupcake recipe, I realized I haven’t yet tried Amy Sedaris’ vanilla cupcakes. I baked up a batch before Christmas, with Bakerella’s favorite buttercream. I did like Amy Sedaris’ recipe, and would use it again for my next batch of vanilla cupcakes. However, the addition of Bakerella’s favorite buttercream [...]
I spent some time searching for an easy coffee buttercream recipe, but the only ones I could find involved either raw egg whites, or was a Swiss meringue buttercream. I just wanted a regular coffee buttercream to frost the next batch of chocolate cupcakes that I would remove from the freezer. However, I could not [...]
I made this cupcake intending to enter it into December’s Iron Cupcake Earth challenge Chocolate With A Twist. Then after I made it I thought it wasn’t good enough. It tasted great, but I didn’t think it was the worthiest contender. Then as I keep looking at them sitting there in the kitchen I thought, [...]
Today I took six more cupcakes out of the freezer from the box cake mix that I made last week. I made the vanilla frosting from this recipe (but divided the recipe in half) and coated the frosting with sweetened shredded coconut. And of course a bright red maraschino cherry sits on top. Once again, [...]
I will start this particular post by noting that I am not of those cakers who vehemently abhor box cake mixes. While it is true that I would much rather bake a cake from scratch, I have no problem with a box cake mix. And I did have a box cake mix sitting in the [...]
My second, and final, entry into the solar system cupcake contest is one dozen Earth cupcakes. A section of our beautiful home planet is represented in cupcake form. This edible Earth is a brown sugar cupcake, filled with two layers – a layer of chocolate ganache to represent Earth’s solid rocky core and a layer [...]
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