It’s fall! I’m ready for the cooler weather and flavors that come with the season like pumpkin and cranberry and cinnamon. I used Hot Ruby, a cranberry wassail, as the flavor base for my first cupcakes of fall. Hot Ruby began as a family’s tradition in Shallowater, Texas, and now is available in stores nationwide and online. It is cranberry-based with spices and […]
I love coffee and coffee-flavored desserts. I am very likely to choose coffee ice cream, for example, if it is on offer. I made coffee icing that went over well once in my pre-blog days—as I remember, it topped chocolate cupcakes—but I’d never made cupcakes with coffee in the cake itself. Since I had Stumptown‘s […]
Attention, New Yorkers! No need to bake for Thanksgiving, we have dessert covered. Here is your chance to get your hands on a batch of Cupcakes by Amélie and help raise money for the victims of Hurricane Sandy. The bake sale will be the day before Thanksgiving 1-6pm in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, at Lutheran Elementary School, […]
I was delighted–and very flattered–when I found out a couple of weeks ago that Butter Lane Cupcakes (now in both Park Slope, Brooklyn, and Manhattan’s East Village) had chosen me as their very first Blogger of the Week! This blog was featured in the bakery June 8-15. I stopped by to say hi that Friday […]