Category: cupcakes
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Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
I’d been dying to make red velvet cupcakes and what better opportunity than for a Pink Party with some of my friends. (Yes, the frosting is a deeper pink, but for some reason my camera didn’t capture the exact hue.)I used this recipe from the Food Network site, but I must offer some caveats.…
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Spiced apple walnut cupcakes with brown sugar buttercream
These spiced apple walnut cupcakes, with brown sugar butter cream frosting, and dulce de leche filling, hit the right spot during the holidays.It was my first time making butter cream, and despite my apprehensions, it worked. I’m not a big fan of butter cream but this brown sugar version is a nice alternative, it…
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Star of Bethlehem cupcakes
I made these cupcakes for our annual cousins’ Christmas party and had high hopes they would turn out like the ones in Susannah Blake’s book “Cupcakes” — which contains some great ideas for amateur bakers, by the way. But as the clock continued to tick ever faster and I realized I was going to…
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Cappuccino cupcakes with dulce de leche filling
These mouthfuls of chocolatey, coffee-flavoured, bites of goodness are not for the faint of heart.If even a smidgen of sugar makes your heart pitter-patter, you may want to gaze longingly at these cupcakes from afar.OK, who are we kidding? If you’re anything like me, you’ll barely be able to resist sinking your teeth into…
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Cupcake crazy
Today, I spent way too much money on cupcake wrappers. Three dozen wrappers for – wait a minute, I don’t want to admit it. Let’s just say, enough to buy a nice pair of jeans. The whole selection is available online at Paper Orchid. Stay tuned, I promise to post photos as soon as…