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Une petite glace à l’amande avec les financiers.

Before I start in on ice cream & financiers & such, I just wanna say that Jay is home from Switzerland! In case you didn’t know, Mr. Rockstar was over there playing a music festival in Muotathal. He’s safe & sound back in New York now. It’s nice to have him back in the same [...]

Cupcakes for kitties. Kinda.

This isn’t a recipe post today, but more of a review of sorts. My cat Arwyn (who isn’t ALL mine, I have to say, she’s really my mom’s cat… but I call her mine) is very stylish. What would you expect really, from a family who has a HUGE interest in fashion? She has a [...]

She’s a lady… whoa, whoa, whoa.

Before I start rhapsodizing about cheese-covered macaroni, I want to give you all a heads up. Yoyo gave me a widget specially for all you Cupcake Rehab readers (it’s over there to the right, below the ads). Using the code ‘CUPCAKEREHAB’ is good for 20% off all her merchandise! I know, right? And ’tis the [...]

Veteran’s Day.

Coming from a family that has a long military history, Veteran’s Day is always important to me. That’s part of the reason why as soon as Yoyo asked me to, I began to participate in Military Monday. My great-great-great grandfather, Albert Hebrank, fought in the Civil War. In 1861, he was an immigrant, right off [...]

Drömmar cakes.

Drömmar is Swedish for “dream” and when used in culinary circles, the word drömmar is usually referring to Swedish cookies. I’m with them so far; dreamy cookies. Sounds good, right? Yeah. But the part where they lose me is the fact that they contain ammonium carbonate, which smells like ammonia. Ammonium carbonate was historically obtained [...]