Have you ever had a baking experience that pretty much start to finish was a disaster?  I promised my friend at work that I would bring in cupcakes the Friday before Halloween. This turned out to be an unmitigated disaster.
I decided to make mini chocolate cupcakes with swiss meringue buttercream tinted orange, purple and green. [...]

Defrosting cupcakes?? What a terrible idea! Cupcakes need frosting.
I totally agree, which is why in this case I’m talking about defrosting frozen cupcakes. Sometimes when I make a big batch of cupcakes I freeze some for later. Unless I’m cooking for a party 2 dozen is way too many. Not that they wouldn’t get consumed, [...]

Here is a recipe for these amazing chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate mint frosting. Make sure you use peppermint oil and not mint oil!
I started off using Grandma’s Chocolate Cake recipe from Cake & Commerce. It was delicious. One of the nice things about it is that it uses vegetable oil instead of butter. My [...]