Category: cupcakes

  • Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

    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.…

  • Easter egg nest cupcakes

    Easter egg nest cupcakes

      I know it’s a bit early to be making Easter-themed cupcakes but ever since I saw the Cadbury eggs perched atop cupcakes in one of my books, I’ve been dying to make my own version. I got the idea for the toasted coconut from Williams Sonoma’s version of Easter cupcakes, I thought it would…

  • Spiced apple walnut cupcakes with brown sugar buttercream

    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…

  • Star of Bethlehem cupcakes

    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…

  • Cappuccino cupcakes with dulce de leche filling

    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…

  • Cupcake Decorating 101: My Designs

    Cupcake Decorating 101: My Designs

      When I signed up for an all-day designer cupcake decorating class at Bonnie Gordon’s School of Confectionary Arts, it was all I could do not to tell everyone who crossed my path. Her wedding cakes have been featured in countless magazines and Hollywood movies and I’d been drooling over her cakes for years. While…

  • Cupcake crazy

    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…