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Fudge Buckeye Cake

Fudge Buckeye Cake combines dense chocolate cake with sweet, squishy peanut butter filling.  A great option for Father's Day, you can substitute 9 inch round cake pans for the fancy rectangular ones.  […]

White Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes with White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

While chocolate is not technically chocolate.  It has cocoa butter, sugar and milk but no cocoa solids (aka cocoa powder).  Feel free to share this bit of knowledge to annoy […]

Yellow Snack Cakes with Vanilla Cream Filling

I got a Twinkie pan for Christmas!  Technically, it's a "cream canoe pan," although I have no idea what cream canoes are exactly.  This recipe can be made as cupcakes […]

Lemon Cheesecake Bites

Lemon Cheesecake Bites are perfect miniature treats.  With a lemony crust, sweet cheesecake filling and tart lemon topping, these little beauties will impress anyone.  Need extras?  (Hint... you'll need extras).  […]

Gingerbread Stout Cake with Orange Eggnog Frosting and Candied Pistachios

Gingerbread Stout Cake with Orange Eggnog Frosting and Candied Pistachios is the ultimate holiday extravaganza.  The spicy gingerbread features dark beer with creamy citrus frosting and salty, sweet nuts on […]

Lemon Blackberry Unicorn Cupcakes

A friend at work brought me a cupcake and asked me to figure out what went wrong.  She thought she messed up, the cupcake was a lemon brick and the […]

Pumpkin Spice Cake with Brown Butter Frosting and Hazelnut Brittle

It's been a busy few weeks.  Between being out of town for work and juggling the rest of my life, blogging sometimes gets shuffled to the back burner (pun intended).  […]

Mocha Hazelnut Cupcakes

Mocha Hazelnut Cupcakes match up an espresso cupcake with Nutella buttercream frosting.  Although it's tempting to skip the cupcakes and just eat Nutella, it's worth putting everything together. Mocha Hazelnut Cupcakes Makes […]

Raspberry Swirl Frozen Cheesecakes

Raspberry Swirl Frozen Cheesecakes are a no-bake treat.  I made these upon request for my brother-in-law's birthday and everyone raved over the creamy, tart combination of raspberries and whipped cream.  […]

Teddy Bear Luau Cupcakes

I was tasked with helping out with a party.  To go with the Hawaiian luau theme, I pulled together something I'd seen on Pinterest.  The cupcakes involve arranging cute, teddy […]

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