She most certainly did make the trek on a wretchedly rainy Saturday to the dangerously-nearer-than-before Penzey’s boutique, wherein she proceeded to plunk down more than $80 on spices.
What? I just moved! I needed to restock! Not to mention, the holiday season is coming up! Don’t judge.
By the way, was I exaggerating [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cupcakes’
Yes. Yes She Did.
Posted in Breakfast, Desserts, Snacks, Uncategorized, tagged buttermilk, cake, citrus, cupcakes, lemon, orange, poppy seed, spice on October 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Midnight Snack of the Gods
Posted in Celebrations, Desserts, Snacks, tagged cake, chiles, chocolate, cupcakes, raspberries, spice on August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are nights — long, dark, melancholic nights — when the only thing between you and abject despair is chocolate, and a candy bar just isn’t going to cut it. Maybe the weltschmerz is growing unbearable, or maybe you have people coming for dinner in twenty minutes because you opened your mouth without thinking and [...]
The Return of Sunday Baking: German Chocolate Cupcakes
Posted in Desserts, Signature Dishes, Sunday Night Baking, tagged chocolate, coconut, cupcakes, dulce de leche, ganache, pecans on May 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I won’t even bother with the usual feeble attempt at excusing the lags in blogging. Let’s just look at the pretty picture and forget all about it, OK? Right, moving on…
This lovely little morsel evolved out of my interest in this recipe, which I ran across mid-week and knew I wanted to try [...]
Sunday Night Sweets Blogging: Opera Cupcakes
Posted in Sunday Night Baking, tagged buttermilk, chocolate, coffee, cupcakes, ganache, hazelnut on June 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
We’re woefully overdue for another Sunday night sweets entry. It isn’t that I haven’t been baking; it’s just that life has been interfering with blogging time again. The hazelnut chocolate chip cookies I made two weeks ago were a bit disappointing and not worth posting about yet, but I’ll try to find time to write [...]
Pie? Meh, but Cupcakes I Can Get Behind.
Posted in Celebrations, Desserts, tagged cream cheese, cupcakes, honey, mascarpone, pumpkin, spice on November 25, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
We never had pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving when I was growing up. While my mother adopted Thanksgiving with a vengeance when she first discovered it as an immigrant, her nearly-wholesale appropriation stopped short of the dessert course. She never cared for pumpkin pie, probably because she dislikes cloves and allspice, so we usually had some [...]
