It’s the big day! All you freaks out there are hopefully all dressed up in various costumes, scaring people & getting candy for free. What a great holiday, huh? BOO! … I’m a bit busy today, answering the door to little mini-goblins and ghosts and giving them the tooth-decaying sweets they demand, but I wanted […]
Month: October 2010
chocolate | cupcakes | filling | frosting | fudge | halloween | malted milk | marshmallow | molasses | recipe | sauce
Vintage-style chocolate & Ovaltine for Halloween.
I’m sure you’re tired of hearing by now how much I love Halloween. Well, tough noogies I say. I’ve got my costume all ready (Merlotte’s waitress, complete with bloody vampire bites on my neck & requisite t-shirt, black shorts, & black Adidas sneakers), my house is all decorated with orange & purple lights, pumpkins, mums, […]
alcohol | apple | cinnamon | cream cheese | desserts | filling | quick & easy | recipe | treats
Easy as pie. Or a dumpling.
Many people overload on pumpkin this time of year. Here, it seems to be an equal amount of apples and pumpkin. Like I said last week, apples have been synonymous with Halloween and fall forever. Because of that, there are always multitudes of apples floating around my house from September to November. I can never […]
Perfect little lemon vanilla bean blueberry tart from ‘From Whence the Sweet Bird Sang’ … The 70th Military Monday. I honestly thought by now I’d have run out of names! Each week I find it just gets sadder and sadder, and hits home more. Jon T. Hicks Jr., 20, Marine Lance Corporal, Sep 10, 2007 […]
apple | breakfast | cake | cinnamon | fruit | great for kids | healthy eating | muffins | recipe | seasonal | snacks | treats
Bobbing for apple muffins.
Halloween has always been synonymous with apples. Bobbing for apples has been a Halloween-party staple since God knows when. And since fall is prime apple-picking season, it’s no surprise lots of fall recipes include apple cider or apples. Apple bobbing originates from Celtic times when Halloween was called Samhain in some Gaelic languages, when apples […]
anise | cupcakes | halloween | holiday | I love... | licorice | marshmallow | orange | recipe | unique | white chocolate
The Devil’s road is paved with… orange marshmallow buttercream?
Before I get started on this post, I want to say how awesome it is that on October 13th the official Tru Blood Beverage website wrote a post about my True Blood Velvet cupcakes on their news page! So exciting, especially for me, I’m a huge fan of the show True Blood & the Sookie […]
Absolutely beautiful cupcakes by Cake is Life … Another week, another Monday, another Military Monday. Michael J. Tully, 33, Army Sergeant 1st Class, Aug 23, 2007 Falls Creek, Pennsylvania David A. Heringes, 36, Army Sergeant 1st Class, Aug 24, 2007 Tampa, Florida Matthew S. Medlicott, 21, Marine Lance Corporal, Aug 25, 2007 Houston, Texas Joshua […]
alcohol | cinnamon | coconut | ginger | halloween | muffins | orange | pumpkin | recipe | seasonal
Coco-rum pumpkin muffins.
Well, it’s that time of year isn’t it? Pumpkin is everywhere- every grocery store you go into has canned pumpkin on sale, on display, etc. Not to mention the whole pumpkins for sale as well. I love this time of year, and while I’m not a huge fan of eating it, I do love baking […]
cheese | chocolate | cream cheese | cupcakes | frosting | halloween | holiday | recipe | vanilla
True Blood.
I hate to be cliche. I do. I know I’m cliche often, because when you make cupcakes and have a blog, you have no choice sometimes. Cupcakes themselves can be kinda cliche. And in blogging terms, there are some themes that you just can’t ignore, some jokes you just have to make (like my infamous […]
Adorable patriotic cupcakes from Country Living … Military Monday comes again. If you aren’t sure what exactly this phenomenon is, then read this post. It explains what it is and why I do it. For the archives, click here. Christopher T. Neiberger, 22, Army Specialist, Aug 06, 2007 Gainesville, Florida Jacob M. Thompson, 26, Army […]
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. 
