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The Best Mini-Cheesecakes

The Best Mini-Cheesecakes

Many cheesecake recipes claim to be the best, but these sour cream topped mini-cheesecakes really are extraordinarily creamy and delicious. Cheesecake can be kind of tricky to make, complicated with a water bath and worries about a cracked top. This recipe is super easy to …read more

Chocolate Sunflower Cupcakes

Chocolate Sunflower Cupcakes

These Chocolate Sunflower Cupcakes are plain chocolate cupcakes with vanilla frosting in disguise.

Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes

Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes

These Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes will become a staple, no-fail recipe for any cupcake creation calling for a chocolate cupcake base. These cupcakes are something between cake and brownie, dense but fluffy and never dry.

Matcha Cupcakes with Honey Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting

Matcha Cupcakes with Honey Swiss Meringue Buttercream Frosting

Matcha Cupcakes have a subtly sweet, smooth, mellow, earthy taste and delicate light but moist crumb. Compliment these cupcakes with Honey Swiss Meringue Buttercream for a frosting that does not detract from the unusual flavor of the cupcake.

Loaded Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Loaded Carrot Cake Cupcakes

The Loaded Carrot “Cake” Cupcake is super moist and fluffy, yet loaded with all the good stuff you find in carrot cake like pineapple, raisins, walnuts, coconut and of course carrots and frosted with Whipped Cream Cheese Frosting.

Grasshopper Cupcakes

Grasshopper Cupcakes

The Grasshopper is a sweet, mint-flavored, after dinner drink made from creme de cocoa, creme de menthe and fresh cream. Some say the origin of the cocktail is a bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The green colored frosting make this cupcake a …read more

Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

These cupcakes will be a huge hit with anyone who loves the flavor combination of chocolate and peanut butter. The cupcake is my standby Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcake. The cupcake is exceptionally moist classic chocolate cake slightly modified from the Chocolate Buttercream Cake recipe from …read more

Death By Chocolate Cupcakes – Gluten Free & Keto

Death By Chocolate Cupcakes – Gluten Free & Keto

These intense chocolate cupcakes are the ultimate chocolate cake treat that will totally satisfy your chocolate desert craving and they are gluten free and keto! They are moist and fluffy, topped with smooth chocolate buttercream. There are lots of folks who are doing the Keto …read more

Cake Balls

Cake Balls

Today we are lucky to receive a lesson from Christy’s Confections on how to make cake balls: What are cake balls?  They resemble cake pops but they are not just cake.  Cake balls are a delicious blend of cake and frosting mixed together and then dipped in …read more

Tequila Soaked Margarita Cupcakes

Tequila Soaked Margarita Cupcakes

These festive margarita cupcakes are filled with the most delicious and easy lime curd and frosted with tequila buttercream. Enjoy as a celebratory treat or to satisfy your margarita craving. Start with my standard Golden Cupcakes recipe. This cake is my go to cake for …read more