Just Desserts doing the Daring Bakers Challenge

I’m not sure if you’ve heard of something called the Daring Baker’s challenge but in a nutshell, a bunch of crazy bakers do one recipe each month and try to make it their own. This month it was Dorie Greenspan’s “Perfect Party Cake.”
Admittedly, i am a lazy baker. When you tell me a certain cake [...]

The wonderful world of baking

so i had been meaning to write a new blog about all the cupcakes and frostings i did for Randi’s mom’s work party and i am finally getting around to it. i’m throwing some pictures in here, hopefully they aren’t too crappy of quality, but we’ll see.
In this picture we have (starting at the [...]

Baking a million cupcakes

I started today with my job coming up on Thursday. I only have 5 more to go, then i get to frost all the damn things on Wednesday morning. I know it may sound silly, but i did indeed bake some today, just to freeze them until Wednesday. I want to be prepared and i [...]

14 different cupcakes

So for next Thursday, i have to bake 14 different cupcakes for my friends mom and her work party. Now, because i love my friend, i did NOT tell her mom to go pound sand up her ass. Luckily, i already have 5 flavors in my freezer so i will really only have to bake [...]

Anthony Bourdain

I just want to start by saying that i think he is awesome and amazing. I am currently dvr-ing every episode of ‘no reservations’ that comes on my television. i love that he doesn’t really like everything he experiences. cabaret in berlin? no thanks, says tony. dodol in indonesia? you can keep it, he says.
I’m [...]

Shamrock shake cupcakes..revisited

Just a short post to say that i remade the frosting and this time, not only did i add the melted shake instead of milk but i put in the tiniest drop of mint extract and vanilla extract. Tons better!

Here they are!!

These are the shamrock shake cupcakes as promised! I had to cheat a little and use a cake mix, but i promise before these shakes leave my local mickey d’s, i will figure out how to do it without a box involved.
1 package plain yellow cake mix
1 package instant french vanilla pudding
1 1/4 cups shamrock [...]

coconut curry chicken soup

I made coconut curry chicken soup, as the title implies. Not bad, however, next time i will add more coconut milk instead of heavy cream. it was my own recipe modeled after the way i remembered it tasting at a little restaurant in chicago called ‘noodles in the pot.’ i ate there about a month [...]