October 23, 2009
Red Velvet Happy Birthday Cupcakes
Photo Courtesy of Joy the Baker! Doesn't she make those cupcakes look delicious!
Its my daughters birthday today and in honor of her 12th Birthday, the last year before she becomes a teenager (although she already seems like one) I am asking you to make one of these awesome recipes from my favorite baker on the internet – Joy The Baker. I love all her recipes, but check out the cupcakes, I have baked most of them and am in love with these red velvet cupcakes and cinnamon cream cheese frosting. For the Red Velvet cupcake recipe click here. The frosting recipe is below.
September 14, 2009
Banana Bread with Ruby Port
So I am starting on a few projects at once, not sure if that's the way to get much done but my mind has been flowing with ideas, it must be the new children's multi vitamins that I am taking(yes I have been stealing my kids vitamins, they're chewable and tasty, sue me).
But in the midst of all the dress revamping and apron sewing, I made some banana bread. I need sustenance to keep me going, what's better than banana bread? Nothing, absolutely nothing, ok maybe somethings, like chocolate, but I had a bunch of over ripe bananas that needed to be made into this beautiful banana bread.
I got this recipe from a friend, Bianca, who, along with her family, owns a winery rightly named Chateau Bianca. So of course you can guess what she has added to this recipe to make it a bit better than the normal everyday banana bread.
So if you aren't familiar with Port – here is a little helpful info: In terms of sweetness, Port wine can be very sweet, sweet, semi-dry, dry or extra dry. Port wine is often served as a dessert wine and has an above average alcohol content; ranging between 19% and 22% by volume. But as most know, when cooked the alcohol dissipates.
Continue reading for the recipe….
February 5, 2009
Maple Sausage Scones Recipe
Recipe: Maple Sausage Scones
Ok, so this is not my normal type of post but I was so impressed with how these scones turned out. Last week while visiting Starbucks, they offered me a sample of their Maple Sausage Scones and I loved them. I decided I would have to try to find the recipe on line, I was sure someone would have made them before, but I couldn't find one recipe for them. So I decided to try to recreate them myself.
