Here are the finished cupcakes decorated in the camp’s beach theme. I frosted them with my homemade Vanilla Buttercream Frosting. For the sand, I crushed graham crackers in my food processor and then poured them on a plate and dipped the freshly frosted cupcakes in them, rolling around gently as needed to cover the tops. … Continue reading
And cupcake recipe #3 for the girls from “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes”. As you can see from the picture, I had some Oreos peeking through my cupcakes so learn from my mistakes and make sure that your batter is smoothed over the cookies so that they don’t poke through. I thought the batter … Continue reading
Cupcake recipe #2 for the girls at camp from “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes”. These have a pleasant surprise at the bottom, a mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cup, yum! 1 box chocolate cake mix 3 eggs 1 cup milk 1 bag mini chocolate peanut butter cups 1 Mix together cake mix, eggs and milk. … Continue reading
I spent this morning making about 80 cupcakes for the girls in my neighborhood who are up at Girls Camp right now. I made 4 different kinds of cupcakes which I will post except for the “Chocolate Chip Mint Cupcakes” which are already on the blog. The pictures for them will be without frosting because … Continue reading
Another dessert for the family 4th of July dinner. This one is from http://www.realsimple.com. I doubled the filling ingredients so that there would be enough to cover the pastry and I used both strawberries and blueberries to top the tart. 1 (8 oz) sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoon sugar 4 … Continue reading
This recipe is from http://www.bettycrocker.com. I deviated from it a bit so I’ll give you the original recipe and then my adaptations. For 4th of July dessert tonight at the family dinner. 1 (1 pd, 2.4 oz) box Betty Crocker Original Supreme Premium brownie mix plus ingredients to make brownies 1 (8 oz) package cream … Continue reading
This is #24 in Susanna Tee’s cookbook, “1 Mix, 100 Muffins”. My sister in law Mary and her family are here visiting this week and I had a bunch of bananas in the freezer so I thought I’d make these for everyone to snack on. I didn’t have any dried apricots so I did walnuts … Continue reading
This was a birthday cake for Courtney’s friend Romina who loves Hello Kitty just like Courtney. Courtney saw this cake pan in Michaels and really wanted it so we got it to experiment with and see how fondant works on a cake made in one of these shaped pans and, as it turns out, it … Continue reading
This is the 2nd cake for Kristy’s family reunion, this one representing the grandparent’s anniversary and the little girl’s birthday. Kristy wanted green, pink and yellow dots and daisies so here it is. It came out pretty cute! This is a 6″, 8″ and 10″ Chocolate Sour Cream (see “White Almond Sour Cream cake”) topsy … Continue reading
I met Kristy at the Women In Business luncheon where I made the same offer to those ladies that Courtney and I made on Facebook which is that we would love to make a cake for any of them for just the cost of ingredients so that we can keep on practicing. Kristy talked to … Continue reading
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