We are having a little party at work today to celebrate a big launch, so I baked some cupcakes. These are my go-to chocolate cupcakes with some swiss meringue buttercream.  I love doing rose swirls on top of cupcakes! It looks so pretty and it doesn’t use tons of icing. Too much icing is a [...]

My Dad’s birthday was a couple of weeks ago on 10-10-10 so I decided to bake him a special cake. He LOVES peanut butter so I went hunting for a peanut butter cake online. The problem is that my mom and I both don’t like peanut butter. So I had to find something everyone would [...]

I offered to make my brother cupcakes for his recent birthday – his choice of flavors. I gave him some options and he chose S’mores. So I went searching for recipes. I based my recipe on the Trophy Cupcakes version posted on Martha Stewart.
I thought I’d try to put a marshmallow in the center. Don’t. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]