Use this to top our Vanilla Cupcakes. This is a great, easy to accomplish, recipe for chefs starting out in baking. Make sure it is thin enough to be easy for them to pipe (if you are going that route). If you need to thin it a bit, just dump it all back into the…
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Classic Vanilla Cupcakes
These cupcakes are a classic crowd-pleaser. There are so many skills to learn when making cupcakes. You have to cream butter and sugar together, scoop and swipe your flour, make a proper buttercream without over mixing, and then pipe that buttercream onto your gorgeous, fluffy cupcakes. There is not much that excited a room full…
Vanilla Madeleines
This recipe was used during our Cakes Course last year. I had such fun picking out perfect tiny cakes that we could make in the hour and a half classes. Bake time can be quite constricting for cooking classes. I am so glad this led to a deep dive on madeleines and madeleine baking for…
Gluten Free Dairy Free Sugar Free Pumpkin Spice Smash Cake
My younger daughter turned one recently. Like most caregivers, I am in awe that the year has passed so quickly, but because of COVID quarantining and social distancing, it feels like she has been a part of our family for so long. I have gotten a large amount of quality time with her this past…
Review of Pamela’s Chocolate Cake Mix
We had a very busy weekend…again. Preparing a house to put it on the market is more of an ordeal than I ever imagined. Especially when you’ve put off painting projects for two years. My husband and I worked incredibly hard this weekend, trying to get it in tip top shape, and we are still…
Simple Mills Vanilla Cupcake Mix: Product Review
Let me preface this post by saying that I don’t consider a cupcake “true food”, strictly speaking. However, food plays a variety of roles in our lives, and one of those is celebratory. Our family doesn’t celebrate very often, for instance Friday is not a cause for dessert in our house. That being said, when…
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