fresh warm mozzarella

There is no substitute for FRESH and I mean FRESH, just made, still warm mozzarella!!  (I prefer salted to non)  I recommend calling  your local Italian Pork Store and find out exactly when they make their mozzarella.  You want to pick it up while it is still warm and on the counter.  You don’t want [...]

pumpkin cupcakes for halloween

i made martha stewart’s pumpkin cupcake recipe this morning to bring to my daughters class party.  they are very light and tasty.  i made minis.  i just find that the mini cupcakes are better for the little ones.  they can have just one, or 2 if they like.  one batch made about 48 minis AND [...]

pumpkin pie

My 6 year old son is a HUGE fan of pumpkin pie. Last week we made a pie together, and almost every night for a week he enjoyed a slice after dinner.  So tonight, he asked if we could make another.  I happily obliged.  As I set out to make our pie from my stockpile [...]

never get caught without a banana…

freeze those bananas!! i have always frozen my bananas, this was something that my mother always did!! and she made the best banana bread!! I will share her very simple recipe with you. but it’s all in the bananas. she was constantly throwing bananas if they were getting a little [...]

banana cupcake with chocolate ganache

snowy day baking…i worked on a new cupcake recipe today.  i started out thinking i would make a banana cupcake topped with a caramel buttercream..but…i realized halfway thru mixing my buttercream that I had run out of confectioners sugar and so… instead, I made a ganache with bittersweet chocolate and heavy cream.  these are so yummy when [...]

simple swirl cupcake

this is a simple and pretty quick way to ice cupcakes…you will need a pastry bag and an extra large star tip…
don’t forget to also get the extra large coupler!  i made that mistake and had to go back to store…

more cupcakes please!

 

ok so I am trying to make my cupcakes a litttle yummier and a little prettier… i love the magnolia cupcake recipe and i probably should not mess with it, but i do smoetimes feel like it could be a little bit dry, so today I added 3 tablespoons of sour cream to the recipe [...]

more cupcakes please!

 

completed snowmen cupcakes

fondant snowmen

 

wanted to make something cute for my son’s kindgerarten holday party…
thought the magnolia cupcakes would be super yummy and really cute if I could make some kind of a snowman (edible of course!!) and perch him on top.. i thought about marshmallows but felt that it was not accurate enough, a bit too square…
so, i [...]