http://www.bakingsweets.com Writings on Cupcakes, Chocolates, & Life Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:42:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's 3 in the morning and I'm reading the blogs in bed on the MacBook and I found this site, Le Cupcake, that is the home of an extraordinarily talented baker from Australia.  I've highlighted some of her work below and you seriously need to prepare yourself.  It is unbelievable.  ... http://www.bakingsweets.com/2009/08/le-cupcake-rocks-my-world/ Well I'm here at work wanting to be home baking, so that being said my sweetheart husband went and got me this yummy dessert. It's chocolate cake with white icing dipped in chocolate ganache. O yeah that's what I said, let's forget about the calories, which by the way ... http://www.bakingsweets.com/2009/08/working/ Tonight, we made white chocolate cupcakes with strawberry cream cheese icing.  The recipe was notable because it called from freshly chopped strawberries so that the icing was amazingly fresh.  It came out of a book Crazy About Cupcakes.  I adapted the recipe and instead of using 1/3 cup water, I ... http://www.bakingsweets.com/2009/08/white-chocolate-cupcakes-with-strawberry-cream-cheese-icing/ Tonight, I made a chocolate buttercream icing cake from a recipe that came from a family-owned chain of bakeries known as mom's apple pie company.  I found a video of one of the company's bakers making it and thought we would try it because it looked really good. The original recipe ... http://www.bakingsweets.com/2009/08/chocolate-buttercream-icing-cake/ I was browsing cupcake blogs tonight and a blog called Syrup and Honey had a great picture of S'mores cupcakes that made my mouth water.  Seriously, I could shove one of these in my face, especially with a cup of hot, black coffee.  They offered a great S'mores cupcake recipe ... http://www.bakingsweets.com/2009/08/smores-cupcake-recipe/ This isn't, actually, the Cupcake Queen.  It's the Cupcake Prince.  My job is to setup the blog so that her majesty can write to her heart's content.  After I put the few, finishing touches on the code, polish the final graphics, and make the phone call announcing that the site ... http://www.bakingsweets.com/2009/08/cupcake-kingdom-is-established/