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Strawberries take the Short Cupcake!

Strawberry Short-Cupcake

It’s strawberry season… so I’ve been told.  I forget every year until I start seeing strawberries everywhere and I’m drawn to them by their hypnotic aroma.  Yes… the aroma tends to put me in another realm and I forget where I am.

Since I’ve been in a cupcake haze the last few weeks and exploring [...]

To VEGAN or not… Key Lime Cupcakes

Vegan Key Lime Cupcakes

I’m not a vegan, although I did omit all animal products for a couple years.   My intro into vegan baking started when I was a cupcake tester for Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World.  Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Romero opened my eyes to vegan baking, showing that you don’t needs special [...]

Chocolate Stout Cuppers

I love to make these once a year for St. Patrick’s Day.  Yea, I’m Irish (what’s it to ya!) but I’m not really a beer drinker.  That being said, the stout brings out (ooo, a rhyme!) a nice flavor in the cupcakes that all will enjoy.

Erin go braugh!!

Mini and Regular size Chocolate Stout Cupcakes

Chocolate Stout [...]

Ginger Cookie Madness

The perfect Ginger Cookie

Some people go for the chocolate chip as their favorite cookie.  For me, I have to go with a ginger cookie.  Not the ginger snap mind you.  While some people prefer the crispness of the snap, I love biting into a soft, chewy cookie all full of spicy goodness.  As soon as [...]

Brown Butter “Spoon Cookies”

As the holidays quickly approach, this is the time of year I have cookies on the brain.  I love cookies… but I never seem to get around to baking them except at the holidays or by special request.  Always on the search for something different, I came across a recipe a few years ago in the [...]

Apple-Cranberry Crisp

I don’t know what it is about the cooler weather that brings to mind fruit crisps.  Warm, cooked fruit with a crunchy topping makes my heart sing.  Overly sweet desserts are too overwhelming to me but there’s something about the tartness of cranberries mixed with apple that’s extremely appealing.

This recipe came about because I had some [...]

Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie

OLD FASHIONED PUMPKIN PIE

Old Fashioned Pumpkin Pie

Basic single crust pie pastry

Filling:

2 cups fresh pumpkin puree (or 1 15oz can of pumpkin puree)

¾ cups evaporated cane sugar

½ teaspoon salt

1 – 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

¼ teaspoon ground allspice

¼ teaspoon ground cardamom

¼ teaspoon ground or fresh nutmeg

¼ teaspoon ground cloves

2 large eggs

1½ cups of [...]