These are my Chocolate Covered Pretzel cupcake. They have a bottom pretzel crust, then chocolate cake, then chocolate ganache frosting topped with more pretzels. As you can see from the third picture we all have trial and error moments in baking. I still have no idea how this happened…all the pans were filled with the … Continue reading Chocolate Covered Pretzel Cupcakes

This weeks theme was grape. Grape! There are only like 4 recipes that include grape. However, I found a loophole…grape jelly. These are peanut butter and jelly cupcakes (grape jelly of course). I’ll admit I made myself sick testing the batter and the frosting and really couldn’t enjoy the cupcakes as much as I wanted … Continue reading Peanut Butter and Jelly Cupcakes

  Last week was one of our maintenance guys last week. He was moving to Argentina to be closer to his family. We all love Charley so in honor of this we did and Argentinian theme. I made Alfajores De Maicena (short bread cookies with dulce de leche sandwhiched in between. I added the chocolate drizzle.) … Continue reading Aldajores De Maicena

This is my contestant for week 3. I do not have a photo of the bread I made from week 2.These are carrot ginger cupcakes, with orange ginger cream cheese frosting. Thank you Martha Stewart! Here is the recipe: Carrot-Ginger Cupcakes YieldMakes 12 cupcakes Ingredients 2/3 cup (2 ounces) pecan halves 6 carrots (about 7 1/2 … Continue reading Ginger Carrot Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting

These are the *winning* cupcakes I made for week one. They are a lemon cupcake, with a raspberry filling, lemon cream cheese frosting topped with a fresh raspberry. These were a crowd pleaser for sure, I’m still being asked about them! Here is the recipe: Raspberry -filled Lemon cupcakes 2 2/3 cups all purpose flour 1 1/2 … Continue reading Lemon Raspberry Cupcakes

A friend of mine was having a birthday for her 2 year old step son...naturally I offered to make the cupcakes. I made two different kinds: key lime pie and s'mores cupcakes. The party was going to be outdoors and it was 90 degrees so I had to make an adjustment to the key lime … Continue reading S’mores Cupcakes and Key Lime Cupcakes

These delightful little cupcakes I made were at the request of my dear Taylor, the citrus lover. They are a basic chocolate cake with an orange cream cheese frosting: Chocolate Cupcakes Ingredients:  1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans 2 cups sugar 3/4 cups cocoa powder 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon … Continue reading Orange Chocolate Cupcakes