I wish I had a fun anecdote or something clever to say about these cupcakes. But I don’t. But really? Do these cupcakes need an amusing quip? I mean, they are CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER BANANA cupcakes. But these are seriously, ridiculously easy. Start with your favorite peanut butter cake recipe. Don’t have one? You can [...]
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Oh hey! Have a good Christmas? Do anything exciting over the holiday? See a good movie and eat some Chinese food? I did all of those things. Except eat Chinese food. I did eat Beef Wellington though. It was my first Beef Wellington experience and has confirmed my suspicions that the basis of British food [...]
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Elise came to visit this weekend from Chicago! Melissa, Elise, and I all lived together senior year of college and while our apartment lacked 36 packs of Bud Light and rows of shot glasses, we did have a pasta maker and panini press. Let’s just say we like to cook. So when Foodbuzz came a-knocking [...]
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Oh man, so much baking going on this week. I have three cakes for the end of the week, so I’m trying to be responsible and plan ahead and get a jump on all the work. It’s exciting to have cakes, including this monster of chocolaty goodness. I think I pulled a muscle lifting the [...]
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Apparently having a full-time job, taking class, training for a triathlon, and attempting to have life, does not leave one much time for baking. I imagine having a family, running a business, or fixing a house probably puts one in the same predicament. So, when I got an email with the recipe for a 5 [...]
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So, apparently I cannot pronounce nor spell “mascarpone”. I figured this out because my blog came up second in hits when I searched for that word. And this blog isn’t that popular. No, it came up, because I’ve been spelling it “marscapone”, and that’s wrong. Go me and multiple misspellings while posting. Perhaps I should [...]
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I have a dirty little secret. Sometimes I use box mixes. Yes, that’s right. Box mixes. Sometimes they come in a pouch, but the gist is the same. Add some oil, some water, a few eggs, and pop those suckers in the oven. In 20 minutes you have delicious smells wafting through your kitchen and [...]
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I make this trifle a lot. Like pretty much everytime I make a carved cake. Because, what do you do with all the scraps when you do this: See that plastic container in the upper right corner? That’s right. Cake scraps. Lots and lots of cake scraps. And I can only think of a couple [...]
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