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Tres Leches Cake: Take Two.
Baking has always been a mostly solitary activity for me. Usually I’m content with this; I’m a very introverted person at heart, after all. I just love being in that therapeutic zone in my own mind when I’m working on a baking project. {But I also have a tendency to be in my own head…
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Lemon Loaf Cake with Lemon Glaze.
As a presumed side effect of all my baking shenanigans over the years, I have come to learn [and accidentally memorize – my memory is weird; I swear I don’t keep creepy files on anyone!] my coworkers’ and friends’ food preferences. Apparently some people don’t like citrus, or at least not in their baked goods. What? Who…
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The *Best* Chocolate Cupcakes [With Cocoa Buttercream].
I have made quite a few chocolate cupcakes in my baking days, but I think this recipe takes the cake {pun totally intended}. While I’ve never really met a chocolate cake that I totally hated, there are, of course, several requirements for my ideal chocolate cake. Those requirements are as follows: It has to be…
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RBE // Old-Fashioned Chocolate Cake Doughnuts.
I’m very fortunate and grateful to be able to say that I had a good childhood. In fact, one of my fondest childhood memories involves doughnuts. [Then again, any memory that involves doughnuts should be classified as a good one!] When I was a kid, nearly every Sunday before or after church, my parents would take…
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Chocolate Irish Whiskey Cake.
Chocolate Irish whiskey cake. Oh yes. This cake combines two of my favorite things: chocolate and booze. Okay, I’m actually not that into the booze. I mean, I enjoy a nice adult beverage (or three) on occasion. But there’s just something about baking with booze. Booze-infused baked goods are just extra special because the alcohol…
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Tres Leches Cake.
Tres leches cake. I had no idea what it was for the longest time. Up until one day about a year ago, I asked my first internship friend, Jimmy, what he’d like for me to bake for him if he ever visited me in St. Louis. [I never did bake for him back when we…
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Small-Batch Pumpkin Chai Cupcakes.
It’s September, and I’m on the pumpkin train. Truth be told, I have been on the pumpkin train since about August. I’m one of those people who wishes fall would hurry up and get here. Yeah, I even wish away summer at times. I get why some of you summer lovers probably hate people like…
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Rainbow Cupcakes.
This is not the post for you if you hate and/or are weirded out by artificial coloring and/or sprinkles. This is most definitely the post for you if you: a) love colorful things, and b) you aren’t afraid of ingesting the occasional fake food coloring/chemicals/whatever evil stuff they’re warning us about now.* *[Obviously, moderation is key. You won’t…
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Vanilla Funfetti Cupcakes.
Funfetti is just one of those things that everybody likes. It’s just fun, you know? {I’m punny today. Haha.} When it comes to baking, I often like to poll people on their favorite baked goods. When I ask people what their favorite cake is, most people always respond “funfetti.” I began to wonder why, as it’s…
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Chocolate Cupcakes with Cocoa Buttercream Frosting.
This past Saturday, I taught a cupcake decorating class as a networking event for my day job. [Yikes!] Basically, I just taught people how to make buttercream and frost their cupcakes using decorative pastry tips and bags. Except, as my luck would have it, I had a hard time getting the buttercream to proper piping…