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Cupcakes

Violet Tea Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting & Candied Wild Violets

by Laura 5 June 2011
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I’ve been holding back this post.  The moment for wild violets has passed, at least in the woods and marsh banks near our home where I gather them.  Perhaps there are still a few beneath the greenery that has grown up seemingly overnight, tempestuous, lush, aggressive.  I spied two violets waving together amongst the wood [...]

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Heart-shaped Red Velvet Baby Cakes with Pink Cream Cheese Frosting

by Laura 13 February 2011
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My Sweet Boy’s sweet girlfriend Taylor is over tonight again to bake. We picked out a recipe for red velvet cake and decided to bake it into little baby cakes decorated with cream cheese frosting tinted pink. Our first batch erupted like so many little red cocoa volcanoes, and it looks like an ode to [...]

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Bubble Gum Ball Surprise Cupcakes with Strawberry Swiss Meringue Buttercream & Pink Rock Candy Crystals

by Laura 11 February 2011
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I dreamed up these playful cupcakes for my niece Elisabeth.  Elisabeth is ten, and she loves funny stories.  Whenever we are together she always mines me for more—details about her mom and I dancing around in front of the sliding glass doors where our mother would scold that our neighbors might see us, about our [...]

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White Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes with Dark Rum and Vanilla

by Laura 9 February 2011
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My mom took a lot of classes when we were growing up in the 70s.  Our house was full of macramé plant hangers and wall hangings and Christmas decorations.  We had Santa and all of his eight reindeer and Rudoph.  There was cast pottery painted by numbers—smaller pieces plus a huge barn scene that hung [...]

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