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Oh no, not another vanilla cupcake recipe! Yes, indeed. This is for everyone who is frustrated by the fact that it’s so easy to make a good scratch chocolate cupcake, but not so easy to make a soft, tender, vanilla cupcake. This recipe changes the game. Not that I don’t also love these sour cream [...]
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Move over red velvet, it’s time for chocolate velvet! I just discovered this recipe today and it might be my new favorite cupcake. I first read about chocolate velvet in Southern Living, where they described the batter as being smooth and creamy. Not that the batter matters as much as the baked cake, but the [...]
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Fuzz and I are back from our cruise aboard the Liberty of the Seas. I have a lot to say about it, but haven’t decided how to phrase it or where to put my thoughts – here, or on Cruise Critic. If you have any questions or are thinking of booking something and want a [...]
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Happy National Chocolate Caramel Day! In light of this illustrious holiday and the fact that Coffee Mate is celebrating Free Flavor Friday this week, here’s a white chocolate caramel latte cupcake. To get that flavor, I added a small amount of white chocolate caramel latte Coffee Mate to cupcake batter and frosting, then topped it [...]
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On Friday I posted an adapted version of the Allrecipes.com “Best Ever Carrot Cake”. I liked it because it was dark (more brown than orange), had lots of pineapple, and was dense and moist without being soggy. The additional step of roasting the shredded carrot before adding them to the batter made the carrots less [...]
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A friend requested a good cupcake recipe, so naturally I gave him three – a scanned copy of the full batch version of Ultimate Chocolate Cupcakes, a white cupcake which works well for making homemade confetti style cupcakes, and the one that follows, which is for basic yellow cupcakes. For this third recipe, I had [...]
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My grandma used to say that adding instant pudding mix to box cake mix was the secret to making it moist. I suppose it was a lot of people’s “secret”, because pretty soon cake mix manufacturers started adding it to the mix, and if you had a recipe that called for cake mix and added [...]
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Today’s recipe is another one I plan to make for Austin Bakes for Japan. Inspired by Stef and her vanilla bean buttercream (she said it tastes like melted ice cream!), I made a batch of white cupcakes which really showcase the flavor of vanilla bean paste. Why the paste instead of the bean? Vanilla beans [...]
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