Please welcome guest blogger Stef from the Cupcake Project! Her blog is my go-to for cupcake recipes (her Ultimate Vanilla Cupcakes are my favorite vanilla cupcake) and she is constantly coming up with innovative ideas (she recently made homemade Spam and used it in Spam cupcakes). She brings us her answer to the Chocolate Chip Cookie Challenge: Hi, […] Read more…
On Sunday, I shared the story of my first baking competition at the Sacramento Chef Challenge. I developed this Ginger Root Beer Float Cupcake recipe to fit the “Hot Summer’s Night” theme and also incorporate the secret ingredient, ginger. I tried different combinations of ginger beer, root beer, fresh ginger, and ground ginger, and I found […] Read more…
I hope you’re ready for an epic blog post. Usually my posts are a quick read – just photos, short description/story, and recipe. However, this is the story of my first baking competition, which was a 3 day marathon of baking, frosting, and then serving cupcakes to over 1,000 people, so it requires a little more […] Read more…
I have two exciting cupcake-related announcements for you all! First, I was asked to be a judge in the Cupcake Project and Scoopalicious 5th annual Ice Cream Cupcake Contest. I entered the contest the last two years and went to the finals each time. It’s a lot of fun to come up with an ice cream cupcake and if your […] Read more…
In my recap post about Eat, Write, Retreat, a food blogging conference I attended a few weeks ago, I mentioned that we participated in a cooking competition. Everyone at the conference was divided into teams of 3 or 4 and tasked with creating a dish in 1 hour that included as many of the secret […] Read more…