Help! I almost ate this frosting for lunch. My cake was in serious fear that it would have to live its short life naked. Fortunately, Stella talked some sense into me. I iced the cake, and proceeded to eat the frosting from there. I love cream cheese, cream cheese icing, and especially the strawberry-cream cheese icing on Baked and Wired‘s strawberry cupcakes. I had to replicate it, and I succeeded. The strawberry cake was less of a success, and I … Continue reading
I love pumpkin! Here’s a simple pumpkin cake that is nice to eat with a mug of hot tea or apple cider. It’s easy to throw together, and it smells SO good. To make this cake, preheat your oven to 350°F. Beat together 1 cup of room-temperature butter (2 sticks) and 1 cup of sugar. Then mix in 1 egg and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract. Mix in 1 cup of pumpkin purée. Then, mix in 2 cups of flour, 1 … Continue reading
I have a big thing for cream cheese. Although I’m past the days of eating it straight up, I still love anything made with it- cream cheese icing, cheesecake, whatever. So these cream cheese cookies are right up my alley. They taste a lot like lemony cream cheese icing, but in cake form. Yes, cake. You know I like my cookies on the crispy side, but these are good too. In fact, I think they would make excellent mini-muffins. To … Continue reading