Toasted Coconut Pound Cake with Lime Curd
It’s April Fool’s Day … but I am not fooling around when I tell you that this pound cake is about the best I have ever had. I had half a bag of coconut sitting in my pantry since I made my Carrot Coconut Cupcakes and I didn’t know what to do with it. For a while I considered making coconut candy, but I was not in the candy making mood. As much as I enjoy candy, I prefer eating it to making it. So, it was...
Carrot Coconut Cupcakes
I had a craving for carrot cake the other day. It was one of those cravings you try to ignore, but in the end you submit because, like it or not, you did not try all that hard to avoid it in the first place. Submitting to my desire also gave me the opportunity to play around with a recipe. I always enjoy that! I did not just want carrot cake, I wanted carrot cupcakes, and I did not just want carrot, I wanted carrot coconut. I do...
Chocolate Chip Cupcakes
First a bit of something fun! I would like to thank Jess and Lyns at All Things Cupcake who selected me as one of the Cupcake Talent Picks of the Week! All Things Cupcake features loads of beautiful cupcake pictures, as well as other awesome cupcake related items. Check it out, and thanks again for choosing my cupcake! Now, on to what you came here for … cupcakes! When I was growing up my mother would make chocolate chip...
Cream Filling for Cupcakes
This recipe is not specifically for cupcakes, but it is REALLY good in cupcakes. I found a recipe on the most excellent blog Nosh With Me for Oatmeal Cream Pies. I loved those plastic wrapped cookie sandwiches when I was a child so I knew I had to try them. The pies were good, but it was the filling that grabbed my attention. I wondered, how it would work if piped into the center of a cupcake? So, I tried it out. If you like those...
Flourless Chocolate Cake
If you love chocolate then this recipe is the one for you. My husband, who used to work in restaurants, would make this for me years ago when we were dating. I found his old book of formulas and remembered how good this simple cake was and decided to go about making it. His formula was for enough to make ten cakes, certainly too many for little old me, but it was easy enough to scale it own for one 9″ round cake. When you...
Wacky Cake
Guess what this cake is missing? Can’t do it? Then read on … My husband was listening to the radio a few days ago and the reporter was discussing money saving recipes. One recipe was from the Great Depression called Wacky Cake. In an effort to save money, and because food items such as eggs, butter and milk were selling for a premium, home cooks had to use what was on hand. Wacky Cake is one such ‘make do’...
