Posts Tagged ‘Practice’

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 [...]

This post is about dreaming up experimental ideas and seeing them through to completion.

I’ve been wanting to design a book like this for a long time (several years, if I’m being honest) and a couple weeks ago I decided to just bite the bullet and make it.

Besides, I had this amazing retro paper that needed [...]

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 [...]

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 could beer possibly have to do with dessert?! Keep reading and find out!

This cupcake recipe interested me because it seemed so strange. You start by boiling some beer with butter and brown sugar (sounds healthy, right?).

You [...]