Daily Unadventures in Cooking

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

Who doesn’t love the seasonal pumpkin flavour that appears in the Fall?  Pumpkin flavour is generally associated with Pumpkin Pie Spice, a mixture of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves.  The pumpkin itself complements those spices but has quite a mild flavour.  These flavours are the basis for the pumpkin cupcake recipe which I found on [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]