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[...]

1 egg 2 cups buttermilk baking mix ¼ cup sugar 2 tbsp. vegetable oil 1 container (6 oz.) lemon-flavored yogurt ¾ cup fresh or frozen blueberries 12 paper[...]

For the filling: 8 oz. cream cheese 1 1/4 cup chocolate chips 1 egg 1/3 cup sugar 1/8 t. salt For the cupcake: 3 cups flour 2 cups sugar 2 t. baking soda 1/2[...]

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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

Kiddo's birthday was last week and he LOOOOOOOOOOVES cookie dough. {So does his mother...it's hereditary.} I knew exactly what to make him for his birthday[...]

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[...]

6 bacon strips, diced 2 cups biscuit/baking mix 2 tablespoons sugar 1 egg 2/3 cup milk Cook bacon according to package directions; drain. Meanwhile, in a[...]

Cake: 2 1/2 cups flour , sifted 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ginger 1/4 teaspoon[...]

1/2 cup of butter at room temperature 8 oz of Philly cream cheese or 1 package at room temperature 2 cups of powdered sugar 1 tspvanilla extract Cream the[...]

2 c. flour , all-purpose 1/3 c. sugar 1 tsp baking pwdr 1 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 c. orange juice unsweetened 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil * see note 1 tsp[...]