I’ve still got Thanksgiving on the brain… Consider yourself warned! I still haven’t figured out my menu for Thanksgiving… I’ve got plenty of ideas, but haven’t made any final decisions yet. I’m just having too much fun exploring new recipe ideas! Since I know a lot of you are planning your own Thanksgiving meals, I…
I love to bake all year long, but I think I enjoy it the most in the fall. This week’s selections for my Friday Favorites certainly reflect that. I had good intentions of choosing a few savory recipes, but there were just so many sweet ones that grabbed my eye. I’m hoping you’ll love them as much as…
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Diageo for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. Would you believe that I knew how to make Bananas Foster long before I could make spaghetti? It’s true! During my high school years (the same years that I was burning fettucini noodles during Home Economics),…
This weekend is my brother’s wedding. Those of you who follow me on Twitter or read my blog regularly may remember that I am baking their wedding cake – a small cake and lots of cupcakes, actually. As you can imagine, this week has been pretty busy for me, and the weekend will be no different!
Throughout the week I’ve been working on adding ivory ribbons to cupcake wrappers and decorating mini gum paste flowers. Now, today starts the baking frenzy. I’ve tried to keep up with blogging in the meantime, but things may be a bit slow around here for a little while next week as I do my best to get back into the swing of things.
In preparation, over the past few months, I’ve been trying lots of new cupcake and frosting recipes trying to find the perfect flavors for the wedding cake and cupcakes. So, I thought I’d share one of the frosting recipes with you today. This wasn’t a winning recipe for the wedding, but I thought it was pretty good. I used some butter rum extract from King Arthur Flour to jazz up a brown butter cream cheese frosting. It’s a great flavor combo for the holidays… If you like butter rum flavor, that is. The frosting has a definite rum flavor, which I like a lot. The frosting tends to steal the show, so it’s best paired with a simple flavored cake like a basic spice or vanilla.
A few months ago, I decided to stop buying diet soda. My husband and I used to drink a lot of it, but we are now living diet soda free! I was always somewhat skeptical of the artificial sweeteners and knew that drinking a lot of soda really wasn’t good. It was a huge decision,…
I’m not usually a big fan of cocktails… In fact, I rarely order them anymore because I often take one sip and end up leaving the rest because I don’t really like the flavor. It’s not that I haven’t tried! The one cocktail that I absolutely love, though, is the mojito. While it’s a fairly…
