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Category Archives: vanilla

Pineapple pie for my mom.

Each year for Mother’s Day, I ask my mother what she’d like me to bake for her. I do this same thing for not just Mother’s Day & Father’s Day, but people’s birthdays. I think it’s kind of nice to have an entire dozen cupcakes or cake all to yourself, don’t you? Anyway, usually, for [...]


May 13, 2012

Like a lemon to a lime, a lime to a lemon.

… I don’t know if you remember, but I made another version of this pie back in December. That was the “winter” version; cranberries & cinnamon. This, however, is the summer version. Inspired by this. Yes, sometimes I keep my lemons in a mortar & pestle… … And also inspired by MCA’s lyric in one [...]


May 07, 2012

One potato, two potato…

Ah, St. Patrick’s Day. It took me a while to think of what my cupcakes were going to be this year for St. Patrick’s Day. I couldn’t think of anything to top my previous years exploits: Guinness stout cupcakes, Bailey’s Irish cream cupcakes, maple-Irish whiskey frosted cupcakes & green velvet cupcakes. But I really didn’t [...]


March 16, 2012

Sham-rockin’ all over the damn place.

Green shamrock sugar cookies, dipped in almond bark & shamrock sprinkles. So. Freakin’. CUTE. … Typical, yes. But adorable, and delicious, and super simple to re-create (I used Wilton’s shamrock cutter). It really is. ‘Cause Lord knows I am not the best cookie maker in the world. Cupcakes are my thang. But yet these managed [...]


March 05, 2012

Simply put: I L♥VE Y♥U.

And sometimes that’s all you need to say. But make sure you say it with a cupcake. … These are vanilla cake (Crumbs’ recipe) topped with a delicious chocolate sour cream frosting (Sprinkles’ recipe) made with 90% chocolate. Funny thing about that chocolate. A few weeks ago, me & Jay were out shopping & we [...]


February 13, 2012