Success With Cupcake Wrappers – {Baking Tip}

Have you ever bought the cutest cupcake wrappers only to lose the pattern once you’ve baked the cupcake and you don’t like the gap of placing your cupcake into another wrapper once it’s baked? Me too, so I decided to test my theory.

Knowing that cupcake wrappers stay together well if you don’t separate them, what about using two unseparated wrappers during the baking process?

It works!

The key is not to separate them otherwise they will turn out as if you had just placed your original cupcake into a new outer wrapper.

how to keep your cupcake wrappers on

It might depend on the paper used in the wrapper but it’s worth a try. 🙂

Happy Baking!

4th of July Cocktails – Red, White and Blue Daiquiris

Happy summer! This week I’m re-posting my recipes and ideas to kick off summer and start planning for our 4th of July party. I have 3 perfectly colorful patriotic cocktails that all begin with the same base with slight variations. The cocktails can either be made with rum or made completely non-alcoholic so everyone can have something colorful and icy to sip. Besides adding a festive touch to your party, the daiquiris can be prepared ahead of time and stored… [Read More]

Collegiate Cupcakes – UCLA

To honor and celebrate a very special recent UCLA graduate I made UCLA cupcakes for his graduation party. I started out with a new oh-so-yummy vanilla cupcake recipe, made a variation using vanilla bean paste and voila! Next, I had to lock in my colors. I fell in love with the Decco Drops I found at Williams-Sonoma (in-store) so I had to commit to using a slightly more aqua color than the true Bruin baby blue. This also meant using… [Read More]

Cookie Cutter Textured Sheet Set Give-Away Winner…

The winning entry for the Autumn Carpenter Cookie Cutter Texture Set is… Miss Sweet Tea! Congratulations Angela! Send me your address, darlin’ and which set you’d like. Generator Min: Max: Result: 13 There were 17 entries for this cookie decorating specific give-away. Again, for some reason when I copy and paste the random.org info it doesn’t reflect the max. number. Oh well, it worked anyway. 🙂 Thank you for entering. I love coming across new products and sharing them with… [Read More]

Raspberry Ice KitchenAid Stand Mixer

I have 3 KitchenAid stand mixers.Don’t hate me because I’m certainly culinary-appliance spoiled. I’d be adding the Williams-Sonoma Susan G. Komen edition stand mixer if I hadn’t received a Pro 600 series model for Mother’s Day this year.I now have 575 watts of marvelous with a 6 quart capacity sitting on my counter and we’re still making friends but my head has been turned by this beauty ~ “Hello Gorgeous!” It’s the Raspberry Ice Artisan, 5 quart, 325 watt.Perfect for… [Read More]

Everything’s Coming Up Flower Cookie Pops

  When I was asked to make cookies for an exhibitor at a landscape trade show I immediately thought flowers would be a natural tie in. The “Vegas” theme of the show would play a part too. I thought cookies would be a unique and fun give-away gift and I could also utilize them in containers for the table decoration. I learned that at a trade show such as this the objective is to get people to visit your booth… [Read More]

Fondant Cookie Cutter Texture Set {GIVE-AWAY}

I want to spread the rolled textured fondant-on-cookie love so I contacted Autumn Carpenter whose cookie cutter texture set I used for the wedding cookies. She has generously offered the give-away winner a cookie cutter textured set of their own choosing from her website. Here are just a couple available. This is the set I used. The Wedding Cake Set. Here are some posts I wrote about working with the Wedding Set this past spring and about working with the… [Read More]