baking

Mini Red Velvet Cupcakes

July 29, 2010 5 comments
red velvet mini cupcake with cream cheese buttercream frosting

I made some mini red velvet cupcakes today. These really should be called mini red velvet bites. They are literally a pop in your mouth kind of deal. Yummy. This Southern Red Velvet cake recipe is our stand by. I baked these little minis for 9-10 minutes. The frosting was from Toba Garrett’s The Well [...]

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It’s Eugene Ma’am.

December 8, 2009 1 comment

That is one of my favorite lines from the book Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup by Tomie dePaola. The story is of a boy named Joey, who takes his friend Eugene to visit his Italian immigrant grandmother. As they are walking to her house in the beginning of the book, Joey [...]

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Beet Red… I Mean Pink

August 18, 2009 1 comment

This entry is part of a series, Recipes» Recently we baked up a batch of gingerbread cookies. (See Project Monday : Baby Shower Favors – Little Gingerbread boys for recipe) These were made as part of our birthday gift to Bear, my daughter’s friend—to go along with her felt tea bags and felt cookies. Bear’s [...]

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Project Monday : Baby Shower Favors – Little Gingerbread boys

July 6, 2009 1 comment
gingerbread cookies, gingerbread boy cookies wrapped in blue cellophane, gingerbread men blue and white, cookie baby shower favors

This entry is part of a series, Project Mondays» , Recipes» When my mom decided to throw us a baby shower for Mr. Happy Feet’s expected arrival, we immediately started brainstorming about favors. I saw many cute baby shower favors for sale over the internet but decided that we would not purchase online – mainly [...]

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