Margarita Cupcakes & Masshole Mommy
Hey, there’s wrong with a little booze in your cupcakes every now and then, right? Admittedly, I’m not much of a baker, but every now and then I can pull off something that’s just pure awesomeness. Hence these amazing margarita cupcakes. They’re a little bit of work, but trust me, these are well worth it. PS – if any of you actually make this recipe, please let me know how much you liked them. Ingredients: For the Lime Cupcakes 3 cups flour1 Tbsp of baking powder1/2 teaspoon of salt1 cup (2 sticks) of unsalted butter - softened2 cups of sugar4 eggs3 limes, zested and juiced (remember – it’s worth all the work)1/2 teaspoon of vanilla1 cup of buttermilk1/4 cup of tequila For the Tequila-Lime Buttercream Frosting 1-2 Tbsp of Tequila3 cups + 3 Tbsp of confectioner’s sugar1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature1/8 teaspoon of salt1 Tbsp of lime juice1/4 cup of granulated sugargreen food coloring (optional -but you should totally do it because it makes them look awesome) Here’s what you do:
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Joe Pastry - Category: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Making Cream Cheese Frosting This really couldn’t be much easier, but heck, a couple of photos can’t hurt, right? Just combine all your ingredients in the bowl of a mixer with the paddle attached… …and beat for about 45 seconds until the frosting is smooth and uniform. You might need to scrape the bowl once to make sure all the ingredients are well combined. Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe Cream cheese’s gaminess and gumminess make it a rather odd base for a frosting. 12 ounces cream cheese 8 ounces soft butter 8 ounces powdered sugar ½ teaspoon vanilla extract Whip on medium-high speed until smooth.
Apple Shaped Cupcakes | Make and Takes - StumbleUpon
It’s September, so apples are on the brain, can you tell? With apple cards, candy apples, yarn apples, I can’t seem to get enough. Well, as I was browsing Pinterest, which I’m addicted to, I came across this post from Muses of Megret on baking your cupcakes into Valentine hearts. It’s such a cute and clever way to bake these! Supplies for Apple Shaped Cupcakes: cupcake mixcupcake liners and muffin tinmarbles or tinfoilred colored frostingpretzel sticksgreen gumdrops 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Now they are ready to bite into. Tagged as: apples, back to school, cake, cupcakes, dessert Written by Marie LeBaron Marie is founder and managing editor of Make and Takes, and author of the book, Make and Takes for Kids.
Joy the Baker —
I feel like I’m grasping tight to the things around me these days. I’m probably the first to shrug off the change of season, the change of moving cities, and the change of traveling a ton as no big deal…. but it all adds up to matter and I have to admit I feel a little crazy in the brain. This season I’ve started a new workout routine. Since I’ve moved away from my beloved SoulCycle in California, I’ve started practicing Bikram Yoga in New Orleans. I’ve also taken out my Tender cookbook (a Spring go-to) and am daydreaming my way through Donald Link’s Down South cookbook in an effort to acclimate myself to my new city and surroundings. Here are a few more Spring flings I’m into these days. 1•• I am very pale. 2•• I absolutely LOVE this Ellovi Body Butter. 3•• I’m thinking of sporting short fingernails with Blue Orchid Nail Polish as the weather gets warmer. 5•• When I was a teenager my mom told me that I had a ‘hat face’. 7•• A little pastel sparkle in these Periwinkle Dangle Earrings.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles | recipegirl.com - StumbleUpon
I’ve never liked chocolate chip cookies. Go ahead and throw tomatoes at me if you’d like, but I don’t like ’em. They’re just a plain old cookie, after all, with a few studs of chocolate chips in them. They’re nothing special to me, unless you get some cookie dough-action before it meets its fate in the oven. Now you’re talkin’. I’d much rather drown my sorrows in a bowl of cookie dough than nibble a dozen “cookies” dipped in milk. I know there are plenty of cookie-dough-nay-sayers out there… you know, the salmonella scare and all . Chilled dough is rolled into 1-inch balls. Those chilled dough balls are dipped in chocolate and then placed onto waxed paper to set. I dipped a few in Ghirardelli White Chocolate Bark and a few in the Chocolate version too. Oh yeah! Yield: 3 to 4 dozen truffles Prep Time: 45 min + chilling time Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles Best served cold, these treats are for cookie-dough lovers. Ingredients: Directions: 1. 2. 3. Tips:
Butterbeer Cupcakes | Tennessee Sugar
This year for Halloween my oldest daughter decided to be Hermione from Harry Potter. Our long time friends we trick or treat with every year were all characters from Harry Potter as well. There was a Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy, Ginny Weasly and Hedgwig in addition to my Hermione. When I was trying to decide on what sweet treat to make for our Halloween dinner together I decided this was the perfect time to try out the Butterbeer cupcake recipe I found on the Sweet Tooth blog. These cupcakes were definitely a hit with all our little Hogwarts students and the adults too. Butterbeer Cupcakes and Butterscotch Ganache Ingredients 2 cups flour 1-1/2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/4 tsp salt 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup dark brown sugar 3 large eggs 1-1/2 tsp vanilla 1 tsp butter flavoring 1/2 cup buttermilk 1/2 cup cream soda 1 11-oz package butterscotch chips 3/4 cup heavy cream Instructions
Recipes | Soups | Berkeley Bowl
Ingredients 8 slices bacon, diced 1 ½ cups diced leeks 1 cup diced white onion 1 cups diced celery ½ cup diced carrot ½ gallon clam juice 2 lbs peeled and cubed potatoes 2 tsp salt 1 tbl fresh dill 2 tbl fresh thyme Ground black pepper to taste ½ gallon half and half ½ lb butter ½ lb flour 2 lbs mined clams Directions Place diced bacon in large stock pot over medium-high heat. Cook potatoes in clam broth until slightly tender but not cooked through.
How to Make Almond Joy Hot Chocolate - Almond Milk Hot Chocolate Recipe (Oh...
Today we’re going to take that delicious almond milk we talked about in the last blog post and make–what’s that? You haven’t made almond milk yet? Well, what are you waiting for? It’s awesome! Go make some right now. Almond Joy Hot Chocolateyield: 2 small mugs of chocolate Ingredients 1 cup almond milk, preferably homemade1/4 cup coconut milk3.5 oz (about 1/2 cup) milk or semi-sweet chocolate, or mix of chocolates. This first step isn’t mandatory, at all, but I must recommend it because it makes your hot chocolate mugs look ever so cute. Or dip the wet chocolate tops into the toasted coconut! Combine the almond milk and the coconut milk in a small saucepan. Once your liquids are mixed, add the chocolate you previously melted to the saucepan, and place the pan over medium heat. Whisk the chocolate and milks together over medium heat. And as the chocolate heats, everything will even out and become beautifully thick and smooth.
