I’ve been dreaming of doing a special post for New Year’s… but wasn’t sure if I’d make it in time. Today… well, with nothing really on the agenda today, I decided to spend a few hours in the kitchen and make some cupcakes! And… what better way to celebrate the New Year than with …
Posts from: December 2011
2011… oh what a year you’ve been! We started together in Washington and ended together in Germany! Here are a few stats from 2011… Blog posts: 170 New Recipes: 129 cupcake Recipes: 61 Cookie Recipes: 23 DANG! That’s a LOT of different cupcake flavors! Without further ado, here are the… TOP 25 Cupcakes of 2011! …
On Christmas, my family and I went to a community dinner sp0nsored by the USO. Lots of people brought side dishes and desserts to the dinner and one in particular stood out to me… It was a food of sorts. A cookie bar. Inside it had chocolate and marshmallow… and it got me to thinking, …
I’ve never thought to make my own peanut butter before… but leave it to Pinterest to give me inspiration this morning to try it! Once I saw this recipe by the Sugar Plum Blog for homemade peanut butter and how simple it was… I had no reason not to try it myself! With just a few …
I used fresh cranberries for the first time in my Mandarin Orange & Cranberry cookies last week. And let me tell you… I must be a crazy woman for not ever using these before! This morning, the cake Duchess posted a recipe for scones that featured these beautiful little berries and I knew I just …
2013– Things are a little different this year! We’re still in Germany, at least 3/4 of my family is. My husband is currently deployed to Afghanistan… this will be the third Christmas in the 7 we’ve had together that he’ll have missed. I am still baking though! I hope to add many new recipes to …
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! All they way from Germany, I’m totally feeling the holiday season! I’ve been dreaming up all kinds of fantastic ideas for super special Christmas cupcakes… so many actually that I couldn’t choose just one! I made for super holiday cupcakes sure to impress and please your family and friends this season! I wanted …
I’ve got this yummy box of mandarin oranges just sitting on my counter. I don’t know what it is… but I think my family might be all mandarin oranged out. I think this might be our third box this season… so yeah, it was about time to do something with them before they went bad. …
A special client of mine ordered a dozen Chocolate M&M cupcakes for her nieces birthday… but had a special request. She wanted to use special liners and wanted them topped with Vampire Diaries edible transfers. I whipped up the cupcakes for her today and I think they just turned out so great and had to …
I am so super excited to be a part of the 1st Annual Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap! The cookie swap had over 600 participants in it’s first year… I’d say that was a HUGE SUCCESS! I was paired up with two other fabulous military wives and bloggers here in Europe to send a …