These cupcakes look like spring personified. Its so damn cold here I’m seriously wishing for some spring. Its like, 17 degrees right now here in NY! It absolutely sucks. So I’m longing for April showers and May flowers and warmer weather. I wanna wear rain boots instead of snow boots. I was going to make […]
Month: January 2008
baking tips | cheats | chocolate | cupcakes | peanut butter | recipe
Double dark chocolate peanut butter mess-ups, that came out awesome anyway.
I was supposed to do real life things today, you know; grown-up things, such as updating my website, doing some graphic design work, etc. I also should have finished some D.I.Y. project type things I started days/weeks ago. Instead… I made cupcakes. :/ Well… I did do some cleaning too, and caught up on some […]
cake mix | cheese | coffee | cream cheese | cupcakes | filling | frosting | muffins | recipe
Chocolate cheesecake muffin cupcakes with coffee (mocha) filling.
I adapted this recipe from one Tattooed Mama posted. I saw them and just needed to make them, immediately. I am a HUGE cheesecake fan, and these are practically cheesecake mixed with chocolate cupcakes, how could ya go wrong? So I put some Social Distortion on the iPod and started baking. I changed the recipe, […]
Don’t you just love risotto? I do. Don’t you just love wine? I do. This is the best of both worlds, and my favorite risotto recipe. I find that its a wonderful winter night meal. White risotto to me is lighter, and more summery, even though its got more cheese usually. It just seems more […]
banana | chocolate | cupcakes | frosting | peanut butter | recipe | vegan
Elvis Comeback Special cupcakes… have left the building.
*Cue theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey* I love Elvis. My mother has always been a huge Elvis fan and I heard it all throughout my childhood. I also used to dance (not stripping, actual dancing, as in tap/ballet/jazz as a child… you perverts), and I danced on more than one occasion to Elvis’ ditties. […]
Last week I told Jay I would make him a whole batch of cupcakes JUST for him to do with as he pleases. He can keep them for himself, share them with his family, or bring them to work. Whatever. And he got to pick what kind. Of course, he picked French Toast cupcakes. My […]
I'm Marilla. A 30-something artist, hobby baker, home canning enthusiast, gardener, DIY-er, wife, mommy of a baby boy and dog mom (to another baby boy) from New York. 
