My best friend, Buggie, hosts an Oscar viewing party each year. This year her theme was “Cartoons” in honor of the nominated best-picture film, Up. Had I not been super busy trying to get things in order before leaving on a week-long business trip I might have tried to fashion a costume. Instead, I decided [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Chocolate’
Irish Car Bomb Cupcakes
Posted in Cupcakes, Frosting, tagged Baileys Irish Cream, Buttercream, Chocolate, cocoa, Guinness, Jameson, whiskey on March 6, 2010 | 3 Comments »
These little gems were commissioned by Samer, who threw out a tweet one day linking to Smitten Kitchen‘s post on them and asking someone to make them for him. Obviously, I obliged and we traded — wine for cupcakes over CupCake Happy Hour (or CCHH, our invention) at Faccia Luna. I should have made photographer [...]
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bacon Cupcakes
Posted in Cupcakes, Frosting, tagged bacon, Buttermilk, Chocolate, Peanut butter, salt on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes, you read that right. That is a chocolate cupcake, with peanut butter icing and bacon crumbles. Together. In one confection. They actually weren’t bad. I am not a big fan of bacon. Somewhere in my 20′s I discovered that I really don’t like pork. (I think my taste buds changed.) But I have one [...]

