Every time I visit Ruston, my former home, there is something new. This time I was delighted to find that one of the recent openings was a bakery. A bakery with a cupcake in the logo… Ruston Social Bites 200 North Vienna Street www.socialbitesofruston.com Heather McWhorter Bailey opened her storefront this summer, after several years […]
“What flavor of cupcakes do you want for your birthday party?” my friend asked her almost-three-year-old son. “Purple!” he replied. Once the lemony goodness was mixed up, he carefully dropped exactly one blackberry into each cup as I scooped in the batter. I had a problem getting the consistency right for the icing. I pulverized the […]
The citrus zing of lemon and the spicy sweetness of ginger truly complement each other, and it’s a combination I love. For the cake, I used the Ginger Cupcake recipe from Julie Hasson‘s 125 Best Cupcake Recipes (recipe reprinted online here), which uses both ground and crystallized ginger. I picked up some crystallized ginger from Malko Karkanni Brothers, a Middle […]
When peaches come to mind, many of you probably think “Georgia,” but a peach in summer always says “Louisiana” to me. I grew up on Ruston peaches, and no peach tastes quite the same. I recently spent a week with family in the Bayou State, and what other special ingredient could I chose to include […]
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 […]