Desserts & Sweets - Muffins & Cupcakes

Some of my most popular posts have been focused on finding natural alternatives to food coloring, and it’s not hard to figure out why. Colors make drab[...]

Time to make the doughnuts! Sticky, sugary-sweet Krispy Kreme homemade donuts. So do theseΒ homemade donutsΒ (doughnuts or donuts?) taste exactly like real[...]

To make the pastry: 1/2 cup white rice flour 1/4 cup tapioca flour 1/4 cup garbanzo bean flour 1 tsp xanthan pinch of Celtic sea salt 2 oz or 56 gms of Earth[...]

The Cupcakes: 1/4 cup millet flour 1/2 cup sweet rice flour 1/4 cup cornstarch 1/4 cup soy flour 1/4 cup Quinoa flour 1/4 cup sweet white sorghum flour 1[...]

For the Guinness chocolate cupcakes: 1 cup stout beer/ Guinness 2 sticks unsalted butter 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa 2 cups flour 2 cups sugar 1 1/2 tsp. baking[...]

for 12 cupcakes Ingredients 1 cup white sugar 1/2 cup butter 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1 3/4 teaspoons baking powder 1/2[...]

Cake Ingredients 1 (18.25 oz) box Duncan Hines Lemon Cake Mix 1 (3.4 oz) package instant lemon pudding mix 1 cup buttermilk ½ cup water ⅓ cup unsweetened[...]

Cake Ingredients 1 (18.25 ounces) Duncan Hines Devils Food Cake Mix 1 (3.4 oz) package of instant chocolate pudding mix 1 cup buttermilk ½ cup warm water ¼[...]

Sometime last year, I was on Instagram lamenting the fact that I was baking a cake for an event or a bake sale, and I wouldn't be able to taste-test it. Oh,[...]

Every year about this time, I start dreaming of strawberries. Sure, I love Honeycrisp apples and Clementines, but for me, strawberries are perfection.[...]

We had a cool front yesterday. The temperatures were in the 60's when we woke up, so I pulled on a long-sleeve shirt and my jeans (and thought about lighting a[...]

Please tell me you do things like this, too... A friend, let's call her Cheryl , tells you about making desserts in push-pop containers. You then see a blog[...]

Do you have an idea book? You know, a binder where you store all of the great ideas you see in magazines? Kinda like retro Pinterest. { Remember life before[...]

I toyed with the idea of calling these QPTWB Muffins (Quite Possibly the World's Best Muffins), but it seemed a little braggy...and difficult to say. I[...]

I have a slight obsession with the hazelnut cappuccino. At this point, I'm pretty sure my blood type is O-Hazelnut. I love them so much that I was fantasizing[...]