A friend just got me the book: Hello, Cupcake!  Check out the Hello, Cupcake Website.  And their Blog!! It came in the mail yesterday, right as I was about to make cupcakes (Good timing!) After flipping through the book, I decided I had all the ingredients (wouldn’t have to run another errand!) for the Butterfly Cupcakes.  [...]

For a lunch at the construction site I’m working on, I contributed some cupcakes. The cupcake collage shows a prairie dog colony on the bottom right, silt fence going through, wetlands, and a stream.  The Silt Fence was made out of fruit leather on toothpicks. Wetlands were used using green buttercream and a grass tip. [...]

Last weekend we tried out Lovely Confections in Denver.  I had read some reviews that said their carrot cupcakes were to die for.  It wasn’t my favorite.  But we also tried their pumpkin cupcake and their lemon.  I have to say lemon was my favorite!!!  Everything about it was lemon-y!  The cake was dense and [...]

I was watching Everyday Italian with Giada De Laurentiis this morning and she had Chocolate-Orange cupcakes on for halloween.  They looked yummy, so I thought I’d try them. The cupcake recipe calls for candied orange peel.  Here’s her recipe for the orange peel: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/candied-orange-peel-recipe/index.html And her recipe for the cupcakes.  It seems pretty easy.  Using [...]