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Posts tagged “cupcake”

Color in the Kitchen! Mini Pedestal Cake Plates

This month has been all about COLOR in the kitchen, in food, and in harvest. Well, to cap it off, we have to show you these jolly little platters, made from refinished old candlesticks! ...

Chocolate and Vanilla: Two New Favorite Cupcake Recipes
Recipe Reviews

School and work are back in session, and so cupcake season is fast upon us. We don't bake a lot of cupcakes; we usually prefer the ease of one whole cake. But when it comes to school classrooms and wo...

What Can I Do With Lots of Leftover Cupcakes?
Good Questions

Q: I work at a nonprofit agency and every Friday, a local cupcake store donates their day-olds to us. The thing is, they give us WAY too many cupcakes. Our staff is pretty small and we always end up t...

Special Occasion Treat: Three-Tier Wedding Cupcakes

Tiered, frilly wedding cakes can be a little daunting for the home baker, but what about cupcakes instead? ...

Picnic Recipe: Chocolate Bouchons from Thomas Keller

Are you looking for a good picnic dessert? How about little chocolate cakes just right for packing and eating al fresco? These are from Thomas Keller, who seems to like a good picnic. First we had a f...

Cupcake Crazy at Martha Stewart

Martha has a new cookbook, and it's all about cupcakes. Regardless of your feelings about these handheld treats—super cute and delicious or a fad that needs to fade—they are a fun dessert for p...

Good Question: Sugar or Gumpaste Flowers for Cupcakes?

Here's a fun question from Liz! She writes: Where can I buy pre-made gum paste flowers for decorating cupcakes? I am considering baking my own wedding cupcakes, but do not have the skill to frost them...

Last Bite: Chrysanthemum Cupcakes

Take a look at these sweet chrysanthemum cupcakes. Wouldn't they be so pretty for Easter?...

How To Frost a Cupcake

We made cupcakes this weekend for some friends (we weren't quite organized enough for cake pops), and we realized that we have a pretty standard way of frosting them. We think we picked up this method...

Good Question: How To Make Bolu Kukus (Indonesian Steamed Cupcakes)?

Here's a good question for Lunar New Year from reader Beckys. I saw the neatest recipe for Bolu Kukus - an Indonesian cupcake that is steamed. I cannot locate the special moulds anywhere. They look ...

Look! Cincinnati Chili Cupcakes

Yes, yes - we know. We just predicted that the cupcake trend will be over soon (if it isn't already dead). And yet, we just couldn't pass up this cupcake. It stopped us in our tracks. ...

Trend Watch: Is the Cupcake Fad Nearing an End?

Earlier this month, the New York Times ran an article asking this very question. Personally, we feel ready for a change of scenery. What about you? Click through to see our guesses for what's next on ...

Good Food with Evan Kleiman: Who Loves Cupcakes?!

Whether they're glammed up with frosting or shipped in jars, we can't seem to get enough cupcakes! Violet Whipps of the blog Cupcake Fetish was Evan Kleiman's guest this past week on Good Food. Ms. W...

Chocolate Beer Cupcakes at the Brooklyn Kitchen Blog

Cupcake contests are quite popular these days, and this one actually took place a month ago, but we were just browsing the Brooklyn Kitchen blog and saw this recipe for Kate's Beer Geek Chocolate Cupc...

Look! Cute Cupcakes from Hello, Cupcake!

In our world, delicious trumps cute, especially when it's cute for cute's sake. And yet, the new book Hello, Cupcake! features such adorable and easy to make creations that we fell in love.Take those ...

Absinthe Cupcakes at Coconut & Lime

Coconut and Lime developed a delicious-looking absinthe cupcake, topped with green fairy icing and a sugar cube. We think the fresh anise taste and the green pastel color is just right for Spring and...