The Story: Sometimes I just want something really basic. Chocolate cupcakes. And sometimes I just want it to be really easy. Chocolate Cake: 1 box devil’s food cake mix 1 cup sour cream 3 eggs ¼ cup milk ½ cup water ½ cup oil 1 teaspoon vanilla Chocolate Buttercream: 1 cup butter, softened 2-3…
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Chocolate Cherry Cupcakes with Almond Buttercream
Cherry Cakes: 1 box devil’s food cake mix 1 ½ teaspoon almond extract 1 teaspoon vanilla 3 eggs 1 can cherry pie filling Almond Buttercream: 1 cup butter, softened 2-3 teaspoons almond extract 1 teaspoon vanilla 2-3 cups powdered sugar ¼ cup sour cream (optional) Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees 2. Beat eggs,…
Chocolate Turtle Muffins
The Story: This was the second recipe that I brought to Your Homebased Mom’s Annual Holiday Baking Day. I wanted to bring something totally new and use her expertise to help me get it perfect. I could find no other turtle muffins recipe online (though I found plenty of cupcake ones), so I was…
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies (Ice Cream Sandwiches)
The Story: Do you ever have really embarrassing baking moments? Like you open the door to a friend or neighbor (or worse, a stranger) and they enlighten you to the fact that you have chocolate cake batter all over your face? Little do they know, you were just hardcore licking your mixing bowl. …
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Spice Cookies
The Story: I’m spending Thanksgiving at a beach house in Texas with my family. And since it’s not our house with all of our baking/cooking stuff and spices, we are having a simplified Thanksgiving menu. So instead of two pumpkin pies, we will only have one. But here’s the problem, out of habit…
Harry Potter Cauldron Cakes
The Story: The seventh Harry Potter movie officially opens tonight. So of course there are Potter Parties happening everywhere. I was invited to one and assigned to bring “Cauldron Cakes.” I had no idea what that was. So I did the only thing I could think of, type it into google and check…
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins Ingredients: 2 ½ cups flour 1 ½ cup sugar ¾ teaspoon baking powder ¾ teaspoon baking soda ¾ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice 3 eggs ¼ cup brown sugar ½ can pumpkin (14 ½ oz) ½ cup applesauce 1 ½ cup chocolate chips Directions:…
Peppermint (Junior Mint) Cupcakes
Cake: 1 box devil’s food cake mix 3 eggs 1 cup sour cream ½ cup water ¼ cup milk ½ cup oil 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Filling: ½ cup butter 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa 6 tablespoons buttermilk (Or 5 tablespoons milk and a ¼ teaspoon lemon juice) 3 cups powdered sugar, sifted Frosting: 1 cup butter…
Cherry Chocolate Cake
The Story: Chocolate covered strawberries are great, but baking cherries with chocolate is divine. After making my Cherry Cobbler Muffins yesterday, I had an opened can of cherry pie filling. I couldn’t let it go to waste. Leigh Anne, from Your Homebased Mom, also gave me this adorable red and while linen for…
Homemade Oreos
Homemade Oreos made with a cake mix! Easy to make and dangerously delicious! These will be your new favorite treat. (Updated photo for Homemade Oreos from my March 2014 cookbook, see how I took the photos in my Photography Lesson #2 post) Cake Mix Homemade Oreos I bring these cookies to just about every party…
Banana Chocolate Brownies
The Story: Okay, now there are some pretty cute Halloween costumes for children. Today I saw the most precious Buzz Lightyear and pink bumblebee. Each was holding the hand of their parent, and with the other, clinging to their bag of goodies. But I also saw an unfortunate costume on the rack at the…
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Story: I don’t carve pumpkins around Halloween. I just make every form for pumpkin baked good possible and call it even. A friend gave me half a can of Libby’s Pumpkin Pie Mix, so of course I couldn’t let it go to waste. But all of the recipes I found called for…
