Posts Tagged ‘Cupcakes’

Some of the most important women in my life are gardeners. I am not. In fact, you might say I have a black thumb. I bet if you gave me enough time, I could even find a way to kill an artificial plant. But then again, that’s not what this post is about.
No, this post [...]

Not long ago, I found the cutest fabric in Hobby Lobby:

After my mom and I spent some time hashing out ideas, she created this cute maternity top for me:

And it fits The Bump and I perfectly!

Tomorrow, I will be 33 weeks pregnant. If my mom’s prediction of Baby’s arrival time (read: early!) turns out to [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Today is my dear friend Megan’s birthday!! It’s been 9 years since we first met in a Survey of Western Arts history class in college. We hit it off immediately and it didn’t take us long [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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I guess I can bake faster than I can blog! That said, here are the shots from the cupcakes I made for St. Patrick’s Day.
The dry ingredients are the typical ones you’ve likely come to expect: flour, [...]

In September, I started an adventure. The goal was to work my way through an entire cupcake cookbook, one recipe at a time. The whole book features 113 recipes, and to date, I have baked, tasted, and posted about 38 of the 113 types; roughly one third of the book.

Some have been extra-tasty-ooh-let’s-make-these-again-sometime recipes while [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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What, you’ve never heard of a Cupcake Kabob before?!

The first thing I did to prep the kabobs was grab a bunch of these:

And a bunch of these:

If I could help it, I didn’t want to repeat colors [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Halloween?! Yes, I know it’s April now. I didn’t choose the names for the cupcakes I make…I’m just working my way through the book. Never mind the timing, or the title for that matter, if it bothers [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Now that 1/4 of 2010 is behind us, it’s a good time to remind you of the fun and excitement that came with ringing in a new year! What better way than with a batch of confetti [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Whenever I have several batches of cupcakes to make, I start by measuring out my dry ingredients into labeled containers. It saves me a lot of time measuring and dividing.

As with most every recipe, you start by [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Naturally, this recipe starts with creaming together butter and sugar (surprised?)

Then, eggs and the other wet ingredients are added:

The final batter had a nice, thick sugar-cookie consistency. (I realized later I had accidentally doubled the amount of [...]