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Category Archives: glaze

Eye of newt & toe of frog.

This year for Halloween, when it came to edibles, I was 100% inspired by Martha’s Halloween issue. Literally, 100%. I found the perfect cupcakes for Halloween, not to mention other treats & ideas that I just had to make (see picture on the right). Some of them you’ve already seen (like the pumpkin cupcakes, or [...]


October 27, 2011

You’re a mother lover. I’m a mother lover.

We all (or at least most of us) love our moms, and want them to be happy. Because when mom is happy, the whole world is happy, right? This year for Mother’s Day, my mom requested Boston Creme cupcakes, which I obliged. But I also surprised her with a totally different “surprise” cupcake that she [...]


May 06, 2011

Bittersweet.

Well it feels really good to be back posting at Cooking the Books! It’s been FOREVER (or so it seems) but we’re back in the game. And with a great book! As I mentioned, A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg is our current pick, chosen by Jeanine. I got the book in mid-January and finished [...]


February 19, 2011

Shimmy shimmy cocoa donut, shimmy shimmy pop.

Chocolate glazed cake donuts are my favorite, and they always have been. I remember being a kid, and my grandpa would go and buy donuts, and I’d always eat all the chocolate ones. Even the chocolate Munchkins from Dunkin’ Donuts at kids birthday parties in school- I’d eat all of those too. The real chocolate [...]


November 19, 2010

Pink Ribbon cupcakes.

You may or may not know that my mom is a breast cancer survivor (4 years now). Since the day she found her lump, even before her diagnosis, she’s been in contact with the amazing people at the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program. First a hotline volunteer, then the amazing social [...]


October 08, 2010