Cupcakes

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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Recipe for Valentine’s Day: Pomegranate Chocolate Cupcakes With Pink Pomegranate Frosting

January 23, 2010
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This is a perfect recipe for Valentine’s Day. I was sent some POM Wonderful 100% Pomegranate Juice to experiment with.  I wasn’t sure what to try, but when I saw a POM Velvet Cupcakes with POM Frostingrecipe (via the Four Seasons Hotel, Beverly Hills) that I happened to already have all the ingredients for, I was sold. Had it not been for POM Wonderful, I never would have tried these.  They are some of the [...]

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