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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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,[...]

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[...]

Baking from scratch, I love it; I do. But sometimes, a cake mix comes to the rescue. Like sometimes in the mornings...when I tend to feel lazy...and the last[...]

Time to get your sprinkles on... I'm gonna be honest; I love conversation hearts, but I don't like to eat them. I like to LOOK at them. So, I[...]

It's still November, so it's STILL pumpkin season, right? I've confessed my love for pumpkin already...let me share with you two of my favorite muffins. One[...]

Have you heard of Baked ? The bakery in New York and South Carolina? Maybe you've heard of the Baked: New Frontiers in Baking cookbook. Maybe just maybe, if[...]

What's the first thing you think of when you think of going to a spa? Food, right? I know, it's strange, but when I think of spas, my mind wanders to thoughts[...]

I'm not sure you can call these mock Hostess Cupcakes because they're not chocolate and they're not covered in ganache and they're PINK, but that was the[...]

Key Lime Tartlets Shells: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour Filling: 1/4 cup cornstarch 5 egg yolks 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk Pinch[...]

1/2 c. margarine 1/2 c. sugar 1/4 c. cocoa 2 x Large eggs 11/20 c. apple puree 1/2 c. minced chocolate or possibly choc chips 1 c. soy flour or possibly[...]

5 c. unbleached all-purpose flour 3 c. whole wheat pastry flour 1 c. whole wheat flour 1/3 c. baking pwdr 1 c. powdered lowfat milk , not nonfat 2 tsp salt[...]