Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes Prep Time50mCook Time20mServings30 Ingredients Cupcake 3 cups (360 grams) all-purpose flour 1 1/2 Tbsp baking powder 1 1/4 tsp salt 1 cup unsalted butter at room temperature 2 cups (400 grams) sugar 4 eggs at room temperature 1 tsp vanilla extract 2 Tbsp lemon zest 1 cup whole milk, divided 2 1/2…
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Nougat
Epic fail on that series of king cake related posts. So sorry! Time slipped away from me but I have all the pictures uploaded and ready... 🤔 So I'm writing them up and saving them for next year—this time earlier in the season! I had a recent realization that might seem quite obvious based on…
How to Dye Granulated Sugar
Colorfully, organically and all the ways I've experimented with!
Holiday Cookie Box
I decided to spread some holiday cheer this year in the form of cookies! 🍪 So naturally, I went straight to level ten baking nine different cookie types (ten if you count the one I threw out...). I thought it would be fun to have a cookie box that is more like a box of…
Avocado Edamame Salad
This salad needs a better name but I don’t think I’m the one to come up with it. This is a salad I discovered many years ago and just love it. There are a hundred variations out there so I wanted to document my personal twist.
Mom’s Birthday French 75 Cake
I wanted to make a special and delicious cake for my mom's recent birthday. She doesn't love chocolate (weird - I know!) but I also go for chocolate everything so I wanted to mix it up. For some time now, I've wanted to make a champagne themed cake but in this case went all in…
New Orleans Style Miniature Mantelpiece
A new craft I’ve picked up during the pandemic has been making miniatures. There’s something amazing about how realistic miniatures can look if you include the right details. But other details can be left out entirely without issue. I’ve decided to design my own miniature kit of a New Orleans style shotgun house. Specifically one…
Garden Stakes / Plant Labels
Since I’ve been gardening this spring, I wanted to make some kind of plant labels to identify what I’ve planted so far. I usually use the plastic ones that come with plants but they tend to get lost in the dirt or blow away over time. Plus custom ones would be fun! 😇 After a…
Offering Online or Live Physical Classes
As we all move into lockdown mode and practice social distancing, I've seen a number of friends and acquaintances post about plans to move fitness, dance or other classes online. There are lots of solutions for this kind of setup but I'm going to write what I know and outline some easy ways to do…
Slide Out, Space Saving Pantry
I actually wrote this a few years ago but never got around to publishing it. Publishing now for your viewing pleasure. 🙃 There were a few things that I knew before moving several months ago. That after living with random pieces of wood lying around the house for a year, I'd been forbidden from moving…