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Valentinium Cupcakinums.

If you know me well, you know I love all holidays. I love Valentine’s Day because, well, it involves hearts, pink & red & of course lace in the theme. I firmly believe in the power of surrounding oneself with beautiful things, and I use any and every holiday as an excuse to do so. [...]


February 11, 2011

That’s what you get, love, for makin’ whoopie.

Before I get into this let me state for the record: macarons & whoopie pies are NOT the new cupcakes. Sorry, Bon Appétit. Cupcakes have been around for over 200 years, and they’ll be around for 200 more. How can you replace a portable, individual cake with two flat Amish cookies filled with frosting or [...]


February 04, 2011

A new year & peppermint bark.

Well it’s a new year and with a new year comes… a new copyright logo on the bottom of my pictures (which you may have seen on my champagne cupcakes)! In case you aren’t aware, I went about 3 years having this blog without needing to (or feeling the need to) copyright my photos, and [...]


January 05, 2011

Christmas time is here, happiness & cheer.

It’s that time, ladies & gents. That time of year when parents try to kill themselves in toy stores to get the “IT” toy of the year and kids are running around overloaded on sugar from Christmas parties, and there’s piles of snow on the ground and your back aches from shoveling it all. Ahh, [...]


December 04, 2010

For Thanksgiving, why not get baked.

By baked I mean bake something- in this instance, donuts. When I bought my donut pan it came with a recipe that sounded really delicious: spiced cake donuts with glaze. Doesn’t that sound good? I thought they’d be great to have on Thanksgiving. Of course, I can’t let people down, I did make cupcakes as [...]


November 24, 2010