Hungry for change? I am! After decking out my car, my computer, and my wardrobe with Obama gear, I decided it was time to give my cupcakes the same treatment. These babies got us ready for our trip to Nevada over election weekend, where we will be doing all we can to help Barack the…
Life Lessons and the Pinkest Cake You’ve Ever Seen
60 quart Hobart mixer: $5000 16 pounds of powdered sugar and cocoa: $35 Adding the sugar while the mixer is on the highest speed: Priceless (Picture is my boss Esti, who graciously agreed to allow me to post–and mock–her secret shame in a public forum. What a champ!) We called this the “Paris Hilton cake”…
Tuesdays with Dorie: Halloween Chocolate Cupcakes
Ahh, velcome to Tuesdays vith Dorie…Haunted Cupcake Edition. Mwahahaha! As a holiday, Halloween doesn’t inspire a lot of passion in me. I can never think of brilliant costume ideas, and let’s face it, I chow down on candy year-round. However, I do love cake (and cupcake!) decorating, so when Clara at I Heart Food for…
Chocolate-Chile Souffles with Cardamom Creme Anglaise
When I read on Anita’s blog that this month’s Sugar High Friday theme is Spices, I immediately knew I wanted to make a cardamom dessert. Cardamom is an underutilized spice in my kitchen–I love the flavor, but I rarely make desserts that can showcase its unique, exotic flavor. I considering pairing it with fruit like…
Tuesdays with Dorie: Pumpkin Muffins
It is a strange fact of life that I love the flavor of pumpkin, but am conflicted about actual pumpkin foods. Pumpkin bread? Yes please! Pumpkin pie? Blech! Pumpkin cookies? Yum. Pumpkin ravioli? Noooo. Fortunately, pumpkin muffins fall firmly into the “EAT ME” category, so I was excited about this week’s recipe. (I was also…
Take Your Blog to Work Day
I’ve been a little quiet lately because work has been hectic. This past weekend we had a 100-person wedding (tiered cake, groom’s cake cupcakes, and mini cookie wedding favors) and a 300-person dessert catering event, in addition to our usual daily orders. And have I mentioned that we are currently a two-woman operation? Fortunately, we…
Tuesdays with Dorie: Lenox (non)Almond Biscotti
Let me start by saying: I really liked the recipe this week! Huzzah! Really, my enjoyment of this week’s recipe comes as such a relief. I was starting to get a complex, because I feel like every week I’m a Bad Attitude Bear. It’s all, “I wanted to like this recipe, buuuut…whine whine whine.” And…
Tuesdays with Dorie: Caramel-Peanut Brownie Cake
Members of the jury, I ask you: can Dorie’s Caramel-Peanut Brownie Cake more accurately be described as Diabetes on a Plate Cake? Exhibit A: Exhibit B: Seriously, y’all. I love me some sugar as much as the next person, but this cake was intense. It was, in the terminology of my barely-remembered high school chemistry…
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