My birthday cake masterpiece is another success from the Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook. Sure, you can make a chocolate cake from a boxed mix, but this recipe made a FABULOUS cake with ingredients you already have one hand. And it does not include what is usually the most pricey baking ingredient, butter. My birthday cake…
Recipes
Playing in the Kitchen: Apple-Spice Layer Cake
The recipe for this delicious Apple-Spice Layer Cake comes from the pages of Martha Stewart’s Baking Handbook, one of my new favorite additions to my cookbook collection. This is one of the few cookbooks where I genuinely want to try every recipe, and it is full of helpful techniques that even a novice baker can handle….
Playing in the Kitchen: Chocolate Turtle Cake
I very much enjoy baking… namely cakes and cookies. One great thing about college (or working in an office) was the ample amount of people willing to accept free food! A great way to test new recipes… even the ones that turned out not-so-hot would be devoured in minutes when left alone in the break…
Playing in the Kitchen: Pink Cupcakes (Magnolia Bakery Vanilla Cupcakes)
In honor of Valentines Day, here are some lovely pink cupcakes! They are the Magnolia Bakery Vanilla Cupcakes, with canned White (not vanilla) icing, Wilton Pink Sugar Sprinkles and Wilton Pink Color Mist. These vanilla cupcakes are some of the best around, though I cannot take credit. The Magnolia Bakery is famous for their…
Playing in the Kitchen: White Chocolate-Apricot Muffins
Who needs the Muffin Man? I made wonderful muffins this weekend from a November 2000 Cooking Light Very tasty. Though having a muffin man around may not be the worst thing 😉 Until then, here is the recipe, enjoy! Print White Chocolate-Apricot Muffins Prep Time 3 hrs 5 mins Cook Time 22 mins Total Time…
Playing in the kitchen: Raspberry Summer Sensation
I really want to try this dessert.. Raspberry Summer Sensation …sadly, it requires freezer space which is in short supply for me at the moment. I also don’t have 12 people to serve just yet, but what a yummy idea! It is also low fat and is so easy, even the a novice chef could…