Tag Archive: buttercream

Vanilla Bean Cupcakes

I’m on a mission to find the recipe for the perfect wedding cake! As I’ve mentioned before, I will be making the cake for my brother’s wedding in December.  So, I have started making some sample cupcakes for my brother and future sister-in-law so that they can pick the flavors for their wedding cake!
This will [...]

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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Cinnamon Brown Sugar Buttercream

Now that the word about my food blog has started to spread, it has become an expectation that I will bring food with me everywhere I go.  It’s not really a bad thing, because it gives me a good excuse to get rid of some of the baked goods that I love to make but [...]

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Daring Bakers August: Mini Dobos Tortas

The August 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoonful
of Sugar and Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spectacular Dobos
Torte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers’ cookbook Kaffeehaus: Exquisite
Desserts from the Classic Caffés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague.
This month’s Daring Bakers post will prove to you (as if [...]

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Happy 4th of July!

It seems that whenever I ask what I can bring to a picnic or gathering, I am usually asked to bake something.  Before I really started cooking, I got into baking and cake decorating.  So, I have pretty much become of the official dessert-maker in the family.  This year, my husband and I are going [...]

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