• Baking Recipes,  Cupcakes & Muffins

    Ghastly Cupcakes to wish you a Spooktastic Halloween!

    It was poor planning on my part that I was able to make only one Halloween-themed treat this year. Because we don’t celebrate Halloween in much the same fun way that the West does, I often forget when it’s about to approach. I get a kick out of making Halloween-themed pastires though, mostly because it requires a lot of creativity. As long as the treats turn out how they’re supposed to or the way I envisioned them in my mind, I don’t mind doing more work than usual. Halloween desserts usually have a number of components, and this cupcake is no different in that it requires you to make cupcakes…

  • Baking Recipes,  Cupcakes & Muffins,  Experiments & experiences

    Introducing the messiest cupcakes in the Universe

    Or okay, the messiest cupcakes I have ever made. But since I haven’t exactly made a whopping number of cupcakes thus far, I guess these cupcakes are getting the short end of the deal here. In the process of making these, there were flashes of cupcake murder scenarios forming in my head. My brain kept telling me, ‘Why don’t you just throw this into the chocolate and see whether it sinks or floats?’ Frustration, ladies and gents. I can’t recall ever attempting any “extravagant” manner of cupcake, and this would have been my first had I only fully succeeded. I liked the idea of these hi-hat cupcakes, not only because…

  • Baking Recipes,  Christmas & holidays,  Cookies,  Experiments & experiences,  From the books,  Must-Makes from Martha

    {Countdown to Christmas} My Peppermint Meringue Milestone

    When I bought my copy of Martha Stewart’s Cookies back in September, I spent many nights browsing the book from cover to cover, trying to come up with a game-plan or schedule as to when I was going to do one recipe or the other. I began marking the cookie recipes into groups, one of which was Christmas cookies. One of the things I like most about this collection of cookies is that every cookie has a photo, thus making every recipe easy to fall in love with. But there’s this one cookie that caught my attention entirely, the Peppermint Meringue Sandwich Cookies. It had Christmas written all over it,…