12 Days of Christmas Cookies Fruitcake Cookies are chewy sugar cookies stuffed full of candied fruits, raisins and toasted pecans for a unique twist on the classic Christmas fruitcake! Topped with a brandy cream cheese frosting, these little cookies are irresistible! And we’re back with Day 11 of the 12 Days of Christmas Cookies! This…
Lemon Coconut Cupcakes {Italian Meringue Buttercream}
These Lemon Coconut Cupcakes have a moist coconut cake, a sweet, tart lemon curd filling and are topped with a lemon Italian meringue buttercream! Lemon, coconut, Spring, cupcakes… Look me straight in the face and tell me that lemon and yellow don’t make you instantly happy. That’s what I thought. Insta-sunshine As I was photographing…
Italian Meringue Buttercream Tutorial
A step-by-step Italian Meringue Buttercream tutorial! NOW with a video!!! It is the smoothest and creamiest of all the buttercreams! You will love it on cakes, cupcakes and more! Plus it’s easier than you think! In culinary school we made 5 different types of buttercream, but Italian Meringue Buttecream is my favorite! It has a…
Carrot Cake Cupcakes {Cream Cheese Frosting}
These are the moistest, most delicious Carrot Cake Cupcakes that I have ever had! They have a little crunch from toasted walnuts and the perfect hint of cinnamon! Topped with an impossibly creamy cream cheese frosting they are irresistible! If you’ve been following along my culinary school journey on The Gram, you probably recall the three pictures…
The Best Death by Chocolate Cupcakes
The Best Death by Chocolate Cupcakes are double chocolate cake, filled with a German’s chocolate ganache and topped with a decadent chocolate butter cream. They certainly bring big BOLD chocolate flavors! Chocolate craving crushed! People who have spent 20 minutes with me know that I am a chocoholic. I carry chocolate in my purse. I…
Grandmas Old Fashioned Soft Sugar Cookies
12 Days of Christmas Cookies My Grandmas Old Fashioned Soft Sugar Cookies are pillowy soft and delightfully chewy without even a hint of crunch! The cookies themselves aren’t overly sweet but they are begging, demanding even, to be iced! This is the same Grandmother who brought us these Soft Molasses Sugar Cookies, so you know…
Spiced Apple Cider Cranberry Cupcakes
A soft, melt in your mouth, apple cider cinnamon cake is filled with an apple cider cranberry sauce, topped with a swirl of cinnamon cream cheese frosting and adorned with cinnamon sugar pie crust leaves and apple cider syrup. Keeping this recipe from you has been agony! Spiced Apple Cider Cranberry Cupcakes. It’s the Holidays…
Sweet Potato Casserole Cupcakes {Homemade Marshmallow Frosting}
These delectable Sweet Potato Casserole Cupcakes have a spiced sweet potato cake, a brown sugar pecan topping and a generous swirl of homemade marshmallow frosting! I think I’m cursed. I see dishes and I can’t stop thinking about how to turn them into cupcakes. Pumpkin Pecan Pie Cupcakes? Check Caramel Apple Cupcakes? Check Peach Crisp…
Homemade Marshmallow Frosting Smores Sticks
An easy, finger-food dessert that is perfect for parties, barbecues, or just Friday Night. A thin layer of milk chocolate ganache is spread onto Graham crackers and topped with homemade marshmallow frosting! Easiest cooked frosting ever. Seriously cannot believe how fast this was and how little work I actually had to do to make it….
Toasted Pecan Pumpkin Cupcakes Maple Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting
Moist pumpkin cupcakes studded with toasted pecans and topped with a sweet and creamy Maple Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting! Back to my kitchen! Back to Fall baking!! Squee!! Who’s tired of pumpkin? Bloggers keep asking that. I could never get tired of pumpkin! I wait all year to bake anything and everything with pumpkin. I…
