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Cherry Chocolate Cupcakes with Fennel Cream Cheese Frosting
View recipe: Cherry Chocolate Cupcakes with Fennel Cream Cheese FrostingI am finding that the recipe development process starts with some ingredient or combination of ingredients entering my subconscious and sitting with me for some time. Eventually the full recipe will evolve after batting around ideas that may or may not translate into something tasty. I had cherries and chocolate on the brain for a…
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Cupcake Questions
View recipe: Cupcake QuestionsHere are my answers to some frequently asked cupcake questions. Feel free to post general questions/comments that don’t pertain to a particular recipe and I will answer them as soon as I can! More answers coming soon… Products & Tools Q. Where can I find those neat baking cups you use? A. I have purchased…
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Lemon, Lime & Grapefruit Curd Filled Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
View recipe: Lemon, Lime & Grapefruit Curd Filled Cupcakes with Cream Cheese FrostingI don’t know about you, but I ate lots of chocolate over the holidays. I felt like a break and decided to make a trio of citrus curds to stuff into some basic vanilla cupcakes. I topped them with a simple cream cheese frosting and a little zest for decoration. Simple, fresh, and delicious. I…
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Coffee Buttercream Filled Almond Cupcake with Valrhona Ganache
View recipe: Coffee Buttercream Filled Almond Cupcake with Valrhona GanacheI saw an opera cake recipe on the epicurious homepage a couple of weeks ago that inspired the latest cupcake recipe. I took the recipe from the site and made some changes. Overall the cupcake was fine, due to two of the three components being extremely tasty. I was not happy with the almond cupcake…
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Persimmon Pavlova Cupcake
View recipe: Persimmon Pavlova CupcakeI have been thinking a lot about making a pavlova inspired cupcake. Mostly because I love pavlova, its one of my most favorite non-chocolate desserts, but also because this cupcake is a composite of 5 recipes and I love the challenge of combining flavors and textures to get something cohesive yet multi-dimensional. I am very…
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Browse Cupcakes
View recipe: Browse CupcakesThese links are out of date. Please see the link “browse cupcakes” on the upper right. *** Sorry all these links are broken. I plan to fix them soon. *** Cupcakes with Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes with Chestnut-Fromage Blanc Frosting and Madeira Wine Glaze Chocolate Chai Spice Cupcake Samoas® Cupcake Rich Chocolate Cupcakes Filled with Chocolate-Mint…
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Ginger-Cream Filled Pumpkin Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache Frosting
View recipe: Ginger-Cream Filled Pumpkin Cupcakes with Chocolate Ganache FrostingI haven’t really made pumpkin cupcakes before, but I have tasted a number of pumpkin muffins and have never really been very happy with them. I decided to use a Martha Stewart recipe as a base – I am rarely disappointed with the recipes on her site – and I wasn’t this time. The cupcakes…
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Chocolate Tarragon Cupcakes with Tarragon Cream Cheese Frosting
View recipe: Chocolate Tarragon Cupcakes with Tarragon Cream Cheese FrostingTarragon tastes sort of like anise and pairs well with chocolate. I was eager to try the two together in a cupcake. I decided to use a basic chocolate cupcake base (I used the Magnolia devil’s food recipe because I wanted to try it) and added fresh tarragon to that. I guessed at a tablespoon…
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German Chocolate Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate Glaze
View recipe: German Chocolate Cupcakes with Milk Chocolate GlazeI make my husband German Chocolate Cake every year for his birthday. It was his favorite growing up and his grandmother still bakes him a German Chocolate Cake whenever we go to visit. This year I made a cupcake version. Researching for the recipe, I looked closely at the Better Homes & Garden version and…
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Red Velvet Cupcakes with Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese Frosting
View recipe: Red Velvet Cupcakes with Vanilla Bean Cream Cheese FrostingI compared about 8 existing recipes for red velvet cake and found the following: some are vanilla cakes with red food coloring and most are chocolate with red food coloring all of the chocolate red velvet recipes use cocoa as opposed to melted chocolate and most have very little cocoa in them (probably to maintain…




