TIP OF THE DAY: Hot Fudge Cupcake Icing

This week we visited the website of Saint Cupcake, a cupcake bakery in Portland, Oregon. In addition to buttercream and cream cheese frostings, the busy bakers came up with a third concept: icing cupcakes by dipping them in chocolate sauce (a.k.a. hot fudge). We like that idea—especially since our Top Pick Of The Week is…
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RECIPE: Dirt Cake With Gummy Worms

Oops: National Gummy Worm Day, which was yesterday, flew by before we had a chance to post this recipe. The dessert, “Dirt In A Box,” was created by Ruby Foo’s restaurant in Times Square, New York City. It’s a no-cook “dirt pudding” or trifle, decorated with Gummy Worms. You can make the recipe more elaborate,…
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RECIPE: Black Forest Cupcakes

Make these Black Forest Cupcakes as a special treat. Photo from Chocolate Bliss, courtesy Celestial Arts Publishing. Love chocolate? Love cherries? How about cupcakes? You can meld all three with this delicious recipe for Black Forest Cupcakes. While they can be made year-round with canned or frozen cherries, take advantage of the fresh ones that…
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PRODUCT: The Most Fun Cupcakes

The picnic food we want most: a Cupcake Picnic Pack from YummyCupcakes.com. Be still our foolish heart: One of our favorite cupcake bakeries, Yummy Cupcakes in Santa Monica, California, has developed the cutest trio of cupcakes ever: the Cupcake Picnic Pack. The corn on the cob cupcake is the company’s delicious buttered popcorn cupcake, cleverly…
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PRODUCT: Fruit Bread In Red, White & Blue

Banana bread is one of our favorite comfort foods. It belongs in a category called fruit bread, which includes blueberry bread, zucchini bread and other dense, cake-like products baked in loaf pans. The density enables fruit bread to be used as sandwich bread—mascarpone, cream cheese or nutted cream cheese is an excellent partner (serve fingers…
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