Birthday Cupcakes 10/07/2010
 I had a birthday not too long ago and decided I wanted to make some pink vanilla cupcakes. This was largely because I had recently purchased not only pink cupcake wrappers, but a tub of pink sparkly sprinkles. I used this Magnolia Cupcakes recipe. I didn't have any self-rising flour, so I used only all-purpose... they tasted pretty good to me! Overall, this recipe was really easy to make. The biggest issue I seem to encounter with cupcakes is making the the same size! I can never seem to put the same amount of batter into all the cups....  I tried using a small ice cream scoop for these, but it still didn't pour evenly! They didn't look too bad once they baked though... although there are pretty big size differences in some! I figured they were fixable with frosting...  While the cakes were cooling, I mixed up the Magnolia buttercream frosting from the recipe posted above. I used a few drops of red food coloring to get the right shade of pink.  Then I prepared all my sprinkles - I also used some Betty Crocker "cupcake gems" to embellish the tops of the cupcakes. I found these at Stop & Shop a few months back and had been really excited to use them!  And voila! Birthday cupcakes fit for a twenty-five year old. These were really fun to make, and they an excellent accompaniment to a glass of Prosecco ;) What are some of your favorite birthday treats?  Update 10/04/2010
 So, clearly I have not been updating 1-2 times per week as planned! This blogging thing has taken awhile to figure out - all the posts I tried to publish never got onto the site, etc. Anyway - I have now figured out, more or less, how to get my posts to actually show up on the site (yay!) and am back from a 2 week vacation, so expect posts to start coming more regularly! Thanks for your patience :) Milk & Cookies 10/04/2010
 I've had a few bags of Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet chips sitting in my cupboard for awhile now and decided to make some simple chocolate chip cookies. I love baking cupcakes and 'fancier' treats, but sometimes nothing beats some old-fashioned cookies (or the raw cookie dough!!). I've been trying to find a good recipe for awhile. My mom makes the best chocolate chip cookies, but she knows her recipe by heart at this point. I tried the recipe in Martha Stewart Cookies, but they came out greasy - I'm sure that was my fault, not Martha's. So this time I tried the recipe on the back of the chocolate chip back - it can be found here. And they came out great! I only baked mine for about 7-8 minutes, and they came out just right. That may have just been my oven, though. Also, I used about twice the number of chocolate chips the recipe called for - so while the cookies were delicious, they were very gooey and messy! Here are a few pictures - from now on, I envision the posts being more illustrated as they go, but I'm still figuring out this blogging thing! Feel free to comment on YOUR favorite chocolate chip cookie recipes :)    I took the cookies in to work the next day - and they went over VERY well with my co-workers. The only negative feedback I received was from my friend Larry - who pronounced them "too cakey, with too little chips." But I'm gonna go with the majority on this one ;) Welcome! 09/02/2010
Hi there! I'm Erin - I'm (almost) 25 years old and I operate this blog. I have always had a sweet tooth (I blame all the ice cream my mother ate while I was in the womb) and, in the past few years, have taken up baking as a hobby to support said sweet tooth! My baking addiction initially started with a pink-frosted cupcake on a visit to Buttercup Bake Shop in New York City - to this day, the best vanilla cupcake I've ever had! However, I've started to expand into baking other treats - like cookies, muffins and scones. By day, I work at a food marketing consultancy - not necessarily as fun as it sounds! - but try to bake treats 1-2 times per week. I decided to start this blog to chronicle my successes (and failures!!) in the kitchen. My goal is to write at least one entry per week, but we'll see how that goes! I hope you find my blog inviting, fun and full of deliciously addictive recipes and food-tography :) Do you have questions, suggestions or want to get in touch? Leave a comment below or contact me!  | About MeSweet tooth. Enough said. ArchivesCategories |
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