It’s been 9 months since I last posted on Craftcake. That’s seriously messed up. I’ve been baking and crafting but not posting. So I’m going to try to catch you up before 2012 gets started.
First off is this cake I baked from my grandma’s 87th birthday. It’s a vanilla layer cake with the most divine [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]