dora birthday cupcakes

happy easter

indulgent easter cupcakes

We're always looking for a new way to make regular cupcakes more fun and more indulgent! We decided to experiment with chocolate eggs and our newly found vanilla cupcake recipe.

Vanilla cupcakes...or cake for that matter...is notoriously dry. We have tested and tasted numerous vanilla cupcake recipes and finally found one that meets our standards. This recipe is simple and produces moist results time and time again. We can now offer vanilla cupcakes as an option.

So. Take a yummy vanilla cupcake and bake it with a cadbury creme or caramilk egg inside and you have perfection! We decided to experiment with this concept and tried baking the cupcakes with a regular chocolate egg, a creme egg, and a caramilk egg. The result was so tasty that we have decided to offer this as our Easter cupcake. Contact us soon to place your order and wow all your friends and family this Easter with these indulgent tasty treats!

Fresh out of the oven

Cadbury creme egg centre

Caramilk egg centre

superbowl cupcakes

I am not an avid sports fan but there are certain sports that I definitely enjoy over others. Football holds a soft spot in my heart. I remember spending many Sunday afternoons watching CFL football games with my dad...sometimes even a double header! Dad patiently explained the rules and I do admit that there was a time in my teenage years I was obsessed with a few of the players from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Since my son is American there are some US traditions that have become a part of our regular lives. This year was our first celebrating the Superbowl. And since we believe that all occasions call for tasty cupcake treats I whipped up some superbowl cupcakes! We spent the evening eating burgers and cupcakes while watching the game.

Well. What really happened, was my friend and I watched and entertained the kids while the guys watched the game. Typical!

vday cupcakes

Valentine's Day is fast approaching. While neither of us typically subscribe to this hallmark holiday we do believe that every occasion calls for a tasty cupcake! 

Contact us soon to place your vday cupcake order with custom edible toppers!

stories from barely burnt cookies and more

During the week of Christmas we completed a rather large order. We split the order, each baking cookies and cupcakes. Julia dropped in for lunch and brought her part of the order around noon on the day of delivery which was to be in an hour or so. 

Interesting things tend to happen when we are together and any sort of baking occurs.

I had been baking all morning. The kitchen was a disaster, not a clear space on the counter. The dining room table was full of Christmas gifts that needed wrapping. There were now three small children in my home. I had just completed decorating two dozen mini chocolate cupcakes with white chocolate peppermint swiss meringue buttercream and needed a place to put them.

I couldn't use the floor or coffee table in case one of the children messed with the box. I couldn't use any kitchen or dining room table space. So the only other logical place to put the box with two dozen decorated cupcakes was the bed in our spare room. I placed them on the bed, ran into the kitchen to grab another box of cupcakes, and returned to discover a crushed box oozing with frosting.

The cat sat on it.

Not funny.

I gasped, Julia ran in, and we jumped into problem solving mode. We thought about salvaging some of the cupcakes but the frosting was drooping off the edges making a major mess of things. Thank goodness I had baked the entire chocolate cupcake recipe into mini's as my plan was to bring some to a family gathering. I screeched "how many cupcakes do we have left?" in a panic stricken voice to Julia who was busy counting. I could just imagine myself re-baking all two dozen cupcakes one hour before delivery. 

Julia breathed a sigh of relief. There were 24 mini cupcakes left and enough frosting to decorate.

Our next problem was the box which was full of oh-so-tasty white chocolate peppermint buttercream. That was our last box for mini cupcakes. So while I decorated another two dozen cupcakes, Julia painstakingly cleaned the box.  

In the end all the cupcakes and cookies looked lovely and were enjoyed by their recipients. Potential disaster averted!

We are fully aware that in all likelihood none of this would have happened if Julia had dropped off her baking and left immediately. Things just get crazy when we bake together...hence the name "barely burnt!" 

However, the craziness is fun and in the end we do get a good story!

our second love

The Oreo cookie.  It truly is our second love.  It may come from a box and been baked by the mysterious Mr. Christie, but wow!  They are good.  Both of us could easily polish off a box of these bad boys in one sitting (with a tall glass of milk, of course).  So it wasn't a stretch for us to test a Cookies and Cream Cupcake recipe.  Chock full of Oreo cookies.  We found a recipe that looked tasty and here is the result.  A real treat!

Unfortunately the frosting portion of the recipe was a bust.  Terrible.  Too sugary, and overpowered the real star of the show.  The Oreo!  So I went back to our old faithful of frostings, which is the light and airy Swiss Meringue Buttercream.  Much better.  Almost mimics the creamy Oreo center.

I took a plate minis of this cupcake to my son's preschool Christmas concert party, and they were devoured within minutes.  And I can't remember exactly how many I ate during the day.  All in all, I would say they were a success!

After all these accolades, the jury is still out on if we'll be adding these to the line-up of offerings.  We still have a little cost calculating to do before committing to baking them for the masses.