These are for the neighborhood game night tonight and the recipe is from http://www.marthastewart.com. They are chock full of good stuff so I can’t imagine that they won’t be delicious! 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, room temperature 2 1/4 cups flour 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 1/2 cups packed dark brown … Continue reading
Another sublime cupcake recipe from Wendy Paul’s “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes” which are for my young women at church tomorrow (if there are any there since it is Spring Break for them this week!). Vanilla cupcakes with granola inside and out and topped with a dollop of vanilla buttercream icing and then finished … Continue reading
I liked this recipe from Anne Byrn’s “Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor” but decided to make cupcakes and some other shapes instead of loaves. I made regular shaped cupcakes (pictured above) and iced some with my buttercream icing in purple and white and then topped the others with the chocolate frosting from the “Rocky … Continue reading
I also made these cupcakes for some Bunco prizes. I made regular shaped cupcakes (pictured here) and then I made some in the shape of bunnies (pictured at the end of the post). This recipe comes from Wendy Paul’s “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes”. I baked these cupcakes in Easter liners and topped them … Continue reading
(Sorry about the picture, I had already wrapped the bread up before I took a pic and didn’t want to unwrap it and wrap it up again.) So for last night’s Bunco prizes, I decided to have a little fun (the way we play Bunco is that everyone goes home with a prize, if you … Continue reading
I hosted Bunco last night at my house and these were the treats I made to serve for dessert. The recipe comes from “Martha Stewart Living”, the December 2009 issue. I felt a little like Martha yesterday as I made these treats and then I made treats for everyone to take home as part of … Continue reading
So this weekend was a mini cake and cupcake weekend. Here is the second round for our cute little neighbor, Emmy, who is turning 7 and thinks Justin Bieber is all that! 🙂 I ended up doing these on my own which was actually really fun! The mini cake is a 6″ chocolate (from the … Continue reading
My little great nephew Noah is turning 4 and his mom, my niece Amber, asked if Cort and I would make Muppet cupcakes for his party. The Muppets turned out to be pretty hard to make so we opted to make him a mini bday cake with Kermit on it (his favorite Muppet) and then … Continue reading
And bar cookie #3. 1 (14 oz) bag caramels 1/3 cup milk 2 cups flour 2 cups quick cooking or old fashioned oats 1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 egg 1 cup butter, softened 1 (6 oz) package semisweet chocolate chips (1 cup) 1 cup chopped walnuts … Continue reading
Bar cookie #2! Sort of like what my mom calls “Magic Cookie Bars” but with a chocolate chip cookie base. 1 (1 pound, 1.5 ounce) pouch Betty Crocker chocolate chip cookie mix 1/2 cup butter, softened 1 egg 1 cup butterscotch chips 1 cup milk chocolate chips or semisweet chocolate chips 1 cup flaked coconut … Continue reading
