Posts filed under food

September 8, 2009

Cupcake Flavors.

The Mister and I put our heads together and have come up with the official flavors for our wedding cupcakes:

Yellow with chocolate buttercream
Chocolate with vanilla buttercream
Red Velvet with cream cheese frosting
Carrot cake with cream cheese
Pumpkin Spice with cinnamon buttercream

We already know how we’re doing the yellow, chocolate and red velvet cakes- those have been family [...]

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April 28, 2009

April TW Food Challenge: Teriyaki Salmon.

One of my favorite things about cooking is finding recipes that sound amazing and then adapting them to make them mine. It’s definitely much easier to do that with cooking vs baking. There is less chemistry involved. That’s what happened with this recipe. I found it via StumbleUpon one day at work and it just [...]

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April 21, 2009

Tasty Tuesday: Turkey Taco Meatloaf Cupcakes.

Yes ladies and gentlemen, meatloaf cupcakes. I was inspired by these jewels at Bake 350 who was inspired by a post at Fine Furious Life. Isn’t the internet wonderful?
We were already going to be having meatloaf for dinner anyway, a fantastic recipe I got out of the Hungry Girl Cookbook I posted about earlier. [...]

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April 11, 2009

Cupcakes for Liz.

My dear friends Liz and Nando are getting married next month. Liz’s shower was this past Sunday and I asked (nay, begged) if there was anything I could do *cough-make cupcakes-cough for the occasion. I had a terrific idea in mind: chocolate cupcakes with white buttercream frosting, rolled in sprinkles and topped with a fondant [...]

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April 7, 2009

Ma Cuisine.

As stated earlier, I’ve been on bit of a vacation from planning the big day for a while now. But don’t think for one minute that I haven’t been up to something. I have problems with sitting still for extended periods of time.
Here’s a small snapshot of some of the best of my practice batches:

My [...]

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