Valentine’s Day Hack: Make heart-shaped cupcakes with a regular tin
You don’t have to have a heart-shaped muffin tin to make fun heart-shaped muffins or cupcakes for Valentine’s Day. Simply line a tin with paper liners, then drop a marble in between the tin and liner. (Balls of aluminum foil will also work.)
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles
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’.
Cookie No Dough Ice Cream
I resolve to make a lot of ice cream this year. And I resolve to make swiss meringue buttercream again because it’s fluffy like a cloud. I also resolve to wear an apron so that I don’t get flour and chocolate all over my jeggings. But in non-baking life, I want to try to stop thinking about “what if” situations. It makes things harder.
Bowl of Worms Anyone?
Create tasty, edible worms. This recipe is simple and great for Halloween, April Fool's, or anytime you feel like snacking on wormy goodness! If you can make jello, then you can make these cool looking worms. Ingredients 2 packs (3 oz) Raspberry jello 1 pkg unflavored gelatin (for extra firmness) 3/4 cup whipping cream 3 cups boiling water 15 drops green food coloring 100 flexible straws (or enough to fill your container) Tall container (1 quart or 1 liter carton of milk) Directions 1) Combine gelatin in bowl and add boiling water. 2) Let it cool to lukewarm and then add the whipping cream and 15 drops green food coloring.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Dip It’s time for a little confession. I realize this may get me shunned (especially in my hometown of Pittsburgh!)
On getting involved
When I was in graduate school, I got a paid internship position to teach one class at a local Bay area high school. It was in a beautiful neighborhood, this lovely suburban school, and to be given the opportunity to teach while in graduate school was one of the more coveted positions. I had very little teaching training under my belt (uh - try 3 months) and the only thing I had going for me was probably my positive attitude and an naivete that thought I could handle anything that came my way. I look back on that year with a lot of regret and a lot of cringing, because as a first year teacher, I was horrible.
Watermelon cake pop with chocolate chips for seeds (!!) and flower cake pop
These fun cake pops are by NataliesCakePops in Littleton, Colorado, who can be reached at nataliescakepops at gmail.com (as always, if you hear about a bakery through Cupcakes Take the Cake, please let them know, thanks).
Apple Pies in Apples
I know, I’ve made a few pies lately. But see how these are different? Look at how adorable these are! I mean, come on. Could you resist? I sure couldn’t.
just peachy. [giveaway] - meals & moves
if you know me even a tiny bit, you know that vanilla bean ice cream is my favorite food and peaches are my favorite fruit. when the two are paired together, it’s like heaven on earth. i love this combo so much, in fact, that i chose to serve vanilla bean ice cream with diced peaches as the dessert at my wedding. sure, there was wedding cake, but to me.. it’s all about the ice cream! yum. after our wedding (it’s almost been a year!) we had a whole bunch of ice cream and peaches left over.. and hardly any cake. i guess some people don’t have their priorities straight and don’t realize that it is all about the ice cream. psh. we divvied out the 3 gallon drums of vanilla bean ice cream to various family members.. but after all was said and done, marshall and i ended up with quite a bit of ice cream and a few bags of diced peaches.
