Daily Unadventures in Cooking

A carrot cake cupcake recipe which is not only a delicious sweet treat, but with whole wheat flour and yogourt it’s good for you too!

These pumpkin pie cupcakes are flavoured with cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves.

I know real buttercream involves eggs and a double boiler, but this is an easy way to make a cheater buttercream icing or frosting that is a fun topping for pumpkin cake or cupcakes.  If you have pumpkin pie spice you can substitute for the cloves, ginger, nutmeg, and cinnamon as that is what the [...]

Is a cupcake a cupcake without icing? Personally I think that a cake or a cupcake, is still a cake even if it isn’t frosted. Unfortunately my friends do not, so these have currently been dubbed “muffcakes” until I make them again and frost them. I thought they were lovely without frosting but I think [...]

Usually I am most impressed with the savoury challenges of the Daring Bakers and less impressed with the sweet ones. Well, I think I am slowly learning the ropes of this group, because I feel like I totally got this recipe. For one thing I only made half of the icing and for another I [...]

This month’s Daring Baker challenge was something I hadn’t even heard of before. Opera Cake. This is a serious cake to make for someone whose dessert baking is generally brownies or cookies. I liked what a marathon it was but as a disclaimer I am really more of a bread baker. In fact I think [...]

Ivonne from Cream Puffs in Venice had a brilliant idea to try and get through some of the recipes in her stock pile – Magazine Mondays. I also have a stack of magazines which seem a mile high and which I never cook out of, so I am going to join her this week a [...]

After a few years of doing this I am excited to finally be hosting a blogging event! I didn’t start my own but rather have the opportunity to host Kalyn’s Weekend Herb Blogging this weekend. I am even luckier because this is the 100th event of WHB. Myriam from Once Upon a Tart was supposed [...]

For the last few weeks I have had a fierce craving for chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing, and in my experience there is only one way to make a craving go away. I almost never bake desserts unless they are cookies so I was amazed by how much work it is to make a simple [...]