Baking

Pumpkin Cupcake Recipe: The One Used for Turkey Cupcakes

November 13, 2010
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Due to popular demand, here’s the recipe for the pumpkin cupcakes I used for the turkey cupcakes. It’s Ina Garten’s and I found it on the Better Homes and Gardens website. It’s a very kid friendly recipe because there isn’t a mixer involved. Everything can be done by sifting things together and whisking, two of La Jolla Girl’s favorite things to do in the kitchen. I just crack the eggs, help measure, handle the oven [...]

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Giraffe Cupcakes That Kids Can Make

November 1, 2010
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I got a bit carried away with a giraffe baby shower theme. There aren’t a lot of giraffe cupcakes online that I could copy so I had to create my own.  Plus, La Jolla Girl really wanted to participate since the party was for her aunt. I found these Wilton Mini Noah’s Ark Metal Cookie Cutters. One of the shapes is a giraffe. Then I decided to use fondant instead of making cookie cupcake toppers [...]

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Mini Cupcakes in Shape of the American Flag (Made by 3 Year Old)

August 29, 2010

Right, so this is one of the things that look much better in real life than in a photo. Especially, with my photography skills. With Labor Day and the end of summer coming, I thought I’d post these since many of you will be firing up your BBQs. They are mini banana cupcakes (promise the recipe is coming) with cream cheese frosting. Ridiculously simple to make, and easy to serve at a BBQ. We had [...]

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Red Velvet Cupcakes And Wine Do Go Together: The Winning Recipes

April 14, 2010
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Several weeks ago, I hosted a cupcakes and wine party with some of the mom and almost mom bloggers in San Diego.  I’m not sure how it all came about, but it happened to be Mama Mary’s birthday.  Then somehow we got chatting with @LimelightJenn about red velvet cupcakes.  Then somehow it became a red velvet cupcake and wine party.  I’m sure I had something to do with that, because I love both cupcakes and [...]

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These Red Velvet Cupcakes + Paula Deen’s Frosting = Perfection

April 14, 2010
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I thought I’d post these recipes together as a one stop shop since we tested so many recipes, as I mentioned in this post.  We mom bloggers voted this as the best combination of red velvet cupcake and frosting. The cupcake recipe is courtesy of Terri Wahl from an episode of  Throwdown With Bobby Flay.  Birdrock Fabrications made it.  It was the winner with Paula Deen’s Red Velvet Cupcakes at a close second.  However, both [...]

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How to Make Butterfly Cupcakes

March 30, 2010
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On a whim, I decided to try these butterfly cupcakes out, just to see if I could do it.  Every once in a while I get inspired to do something creative with food, usually desserts. I promise, these looked way better in person than they do in these photos. A while back, I bought a book called Hello, Cupcake!: Irresistibly Playful Creations Anyone Can Make. I saw it had great reviews and that it was [...]

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