Like the Deserts Miss the Rain: Prickly Pear Cupcakes!!

The gray cloud coverage during the winter months in Michigan has sadly started. No snow on the ground, but it's certainly cold! This i...

Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream

This is my go-to chocolate cupcake recipe. I tried making some sort of fancy chocolate mousse cupcake, but the cupcakes came out very defla...

Honey Lavender Cupcakes with Grapefruit Frosting

Whoa whoa whoa. GRAPEFRUIT? Does that even belong in a baked good? Um, if it's edible, yes. Yes it does. Let me start from the beginn...

Boo!

Yup, more Halloween cuppies! I had that cupcake party over the weekend, so I have a lot of blog posts to squeeze out of it :) The party wa...

Apple Cider Cupcakes

Along with pumpkins, I tend to associate fall with warm apple cider. I love that Michigan has so many orchards where one can have fresh pre...

Welcome to the Pumpkin Patch! Pumpkin Spice Cupcakes

Halloween is my favorite holiday. Growing up in a desert, it was always fun to imagine what it would be like to experience fall, and Hallow...

Lion King Cupcakes

These lil' lions came from from the Martha Stewart Cupcake Book (which might be my favorite book!). I changed them a little bit to make...

Cookie Monster Cupcakes

So there I was. Sitting at a computer logging the patients I had seen that morning (lots of back pain, some well children). I had just fini...

Dreamy Creamy Raspberry Buttermilk Frosting

Making frosting for my cuppies has always been a challenge for me. I tend to dismiss all frosting as being too tooth-decayingly sweet. Tho...

Hosting Your Own Cupcake Party!

I'm back from a lovely weekend in NYC for my cousin's wedding, which was absolutely beautiful. There were thousands of roses there,...