For all you Friends fans out there, you are likely familiar with the episode where Rachel and Chandler steal and eat cheesecakes. Well, I was watching this episode a few nights ago and was overcome with a hankering for some cheesecake. Since I didn’t have the desire, or the ingredients,...
A few weeks months ago my baby turned 2. As we were planning her birthday party I sat on the couch with her and flipped through recipes for cupcakes, trying to pick one or two to make. She climbed into my lap as I leafed from page to page, then...
The first of October I went on a vacation with my mom and both of my kids while Brian went hunting. Literally one hour after getting out of the car to start our vacation I dropped our trusty point & shoot camera in the sand in the play area of...
I have a confession to make. I’m sorry to have kept it from you for so long. Ok… here goes. I really don’t like frosting. There, I said it. I think most frosting is totally vile. The bakery frostings on those massive sheet cakes for office birthdays and graduations (that...
Alice from Alice in Wonderland said “I give myself very good advice but I very seldom follow it.” Wise girl, that Alice. One of my first cardinal rules of cooking is to read through the recipe twice at minimum before starting. Yet sometimes (cough cough too often) I just assume...
We are quite the coffee addicts around our house. It is my firm belief that there isn’t much better than coffee & chocolate together. An iced mocha is a surefire way to perk up my day (pun intended. Perk? Coffee? oh my). So these little cupcakes are what I’d consider...
So, funny story. A few weeks ago was my daughter Rebecca’s third birthday. All along we’d talked about the kind of cupcakes she wanted for various birthday functions that week and we’d agreed on Oreo cupcakes for The Big Day. Then, just before naptime- when I was going to be...
Brian has been begging me to make a pineapple upside-down cake for months and months now, but I never get around to it. Finally, I had some time to bake and asked him if he had a preference. When he requested this again I thought perhaps I should come through...
Did you hear that? I think the heavens just parted and the angels sang… This. cake. What can I say? Oh, I know- best thing you’ll ever eat. Ever. I promise 🙂 I think that’s all the intro it needs. For the cake: Ingredients: 2C all-purpose flour1 3/4C sugar1 tsp baking...