Posts Tagged ‘frosting’
Beet Cupcakes with Cinnamon Ginger Frosting
Cakes, Pies & Tarts • Tags: beets, cupcakes, frosting, ginger, healthy, orange
How many times have you been so focused on doing something that you miss a very important step? Like adding butter to your cupcakes. There must be lots of heads shaking right now–either because you agree that that was very silly or, hopefully, because you’ve done it too. Maybe Pandora was playing a favorite song that just begged to be belted out. Or maybe Oprah was emphatically yelling the name of her daily guest, and one had to see what was going on. It’s also possible to put the blame on the butter not being on the counter. But no, the butter was on the counter. Oprah was not on. Pandora was playing, but it wasn’t that loud. The butter was just forgotten–forgotten in all its room temperature glory. When they went into the oven, there was a small prayer said with the hopes that these cupcakes would survive 20 minutes of baking. Would they shrivel up into a dry brick of beet? Only time would tell.
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1-2-3-4 Cake with Chocolate Sour Cream Cheese Frosting
Cakes, Pies & Tarts • Tags: chocolate, frosting, sour cream
We promise that this is the last birthday cake you will see here for a while. Maybe. We’ll see who else chooses to celebrate with cake before the year is over. Until then, let’s all have a slice of this 1-2-3-4 cake! A good friend who just recently got engaged gets to round out October with her golden birthday! This cake was a little piece of the party. We’ve had a few opportunities to work on decorating cakes and cookies this month, but practice is still in order. This cake was a test in writing, which is no easy feat. The letters are royal icing. The pink things are the bottom are supposed to be balloons, and they are glacé icing with royal icing strings. No one’s quitting their day job to take up the pastry chef life, but one day we’ll get it perfect! Oh, and we have things to celebrate too. Wanna hear all about it?
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Blondies
Cookies & Bars • Tags: blondies, butterscotch flavor, chocolate chips, frosting, maternity leave
If real babies could eat blondies, they’d probably enjoy them. And by real, we mean babies that have already made it out of the womb and into the world. There’s a lovely girl having her first baby, and to send her off for maternity leave, we thought nothing less than a batch of blondies would do. It can’t be possible for a pregnant woman to shun dessert, can it? So we set out to make them. Soft, chewy, sweet, a blondie is dessert that you could love as much as a brownie, though they are not exactly the same thing. There’s no cocoa in these babies, and they are made with all brown sugar. What does that mean to you? It means the deep, rich molasses of the sugar itself will permeate these dessert bars, creating a butterscotch flavor that bounces off the tongue. It also guarantees a moist, chewy treat due to the softer texture of the sugar’s grains. Similar to their chocolate cousin, blondies can be zazzed up anyway you like–a little of this, a little of that, or plain and pure. They’re perfect bars for the bun in the oven.
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Chocolate Hazelnut Cake with Seven Minute Frosting
Cakes, Pies & Tarts • Tags: cake baking, crumbs, Frangelico, frosting, help, how to, layers, seven minute, tips
We are not as haughty as Marie Antoinette. At least we do not think so. We do like cake though. That is the only connection between the Duo and the bourgeois dauphine de France, and it is a very loose one. We’ve made a good number of cakes and sweets in our tiny corner of Los Scandalous, and this one was yet another attempt to flex the flavorful bicep of a collection of goodies in the pantry. A while back, we bought a big ‘ol Snuggie wearing, friar shaped bottle of Frangelico for a couple of desserts, and it’s been sitting in the cabinet awaiting its next application. When Frangelico shows up to the party, it never disappoints, and here it is again working its magic. If little Marie told us to go eat some cake, we’d ask her to serve a slice of this one.
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