Some people call Valentine’s Day “Single’s Awareness Day.” I don’t really know why single people would get bent out of shape over Valentine’s Day- it’s about love. Not just romantic love, but familial love, love of friends, and love of yourself. If you’re single on Valentine’s Day instead of feeling bad, go buy yourself something! [...]
Okay, time to school ya’ll a bit now. Today, in case you weren’t aware, is Mardi Gras.
The terms “Mardi Gras” (mâr′·dē grâ), “Mardi Gras season“, and “Carnival season“,[1][2][3][4][5][6] in English, refer to events of the Carnival celebrations, beginning on or after the Epiphany and ending on the day before Ash Wednesday. Mardi Gras [...]
Hearing: No Doubt – “Oi To The World”
And speaking of ornaments, and deserving things… the famous Yoyo has added some new things to her store; including aprons and credit card holders, and perhaps soon- some doggie blankets. I highly suggest if you need to buy last minute gifts or you’re not seeing family/friends until [...]
I have no idea what possessed me to make these. I really don’t. I had Christmas cupcakes planned already, and they weren’t these. These were sort of an accident. Or a surprise I guess, that sounds nicer.
I just randomly decided I wanted to make cupcakes, and I wanted to make a new recipe. However, I [...]
Hearing: Weezer – “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
I’m sure most of you have seen Shrek. Regardless of having children or not, it’s a movie that by now most of the world I think has either seen, read about, or heard enough about to know about Gingy. There’s even been a Broadway play version [...]
What a title, huh? I outdid myself with that one. If you don’t read that title and then stick around to read the rest of this entry, even just out of just pure curiosity, well, you’re… probably very busy at work. Or you’re a very boring person.
I think Martha Stewart recipes are sort of like [...]
No offense Pillsbury, you served me well for many years… came in handy when I wanted to make a quick sheet cake at midnight during my college years and kept my sugar levels up through many class birthday parties as a child, but I don’t really “do” box cake mixes anymore. Sure, occasionally I’ll use [...]
So Lyns, the proprietor of Sweet Cuppin’ Cakes Bakery, asked me to make some fabulous egg-free vegan cupcakes, and requested a very interesting theme: Queen of Hearts. I loved the idea, and although I’m not vegan and really haven’t done much vegan baking, I jumped right into it.
What is “vegan“, exactly?
Veganism is a diet and [...]
So coconut is used a lot around this time of year on cakes and cupcakes and things because of its resemblance to snow. Which is kind of ironic and funny considering it grows only in a warm-weather climate such as South Asia or Hawaii. But it is very useful in simulating snow for snowman cupcakes [...]
Hearing: Bing Crosby & The Andrews Sisters – “Jingle Bells”
Typically, as I’ve mentioned before, I make two different kinds of cupcakes for any particular holiday. Really , I only do this if I plan on making something that isn’t a basic cupcake, or something I know not everyone will eat. That way I can [...]
Hearing: Dean Martin – “Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!”
I’ve been away for too long, I’m aware of that. I haven’t been doing much baking- instead my time has been spent decorating, planning gifts, making lists and checking them twice, and most importantly, being sick and battling crowds of germy holiday [...]
I know, I’ve been MIA again. *sigh* I’ve just been really busy… its the holidays, and I’ve been preoccupied setting up my new blog at mariloca.com and writing and gathering pictures together for my Cupcakes Take the Cake guest blog (which will be on the 23rd- mark your calendars!) But alas, I’m here with a [...]
Happy Thanksgiving (aka rape, plunder and pillage Indians day) to all you fellow Americans out there! Yeah, its a day thats been twisted to glorify the Pilgrims who amounted to nothing more than intolerant, murderous religious fanatics, but I have to say, I do love me the Macy*s Thanksgiving day parade. And who doesn’t love [...]
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As of this evening, November 4th 2008 at 11 p.m. EST, Barack Hussein Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. I’m even more proud to be an American today than I normally am. His story is a real American story; proof that you can be [...]
Ah, Halloween. Best night of the year in my humble opinion. Then again, anytime you can leave your house in New York, see 5 zombies, 4 vampires, 7 witches and a bunch of ghosts, tell your friends about it (while you’re dressed as, say, a prostitute) and not be committed to a mental hospital or [...]
