RECIPE: The Easiest Strawberry Shortcake

May 21st is National Strawberries And Cream Day. Take advantage of the beautiful strawberries in season to make these easy yet elegant individual strawberry shortcakes in silver cupcake wrappers. People will think you worked for hours on this recipe. But all you do is buy the strawberries and pound cake, whip the cream and assemble.…
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PRODUCT: Pink Princess Cupcakes

Like cupcakes? Have young daughters, nieces, grandkids? Pink Princess Cupcakes may be a festive activity for you. The Pink Princess Cupcakes Kit is one of a series of cupcake mixes (along with Fancy Fairy and Magical Mermaid) that provides an adult-child baking-and-bonding opportunity. There is unusual fun in making these cupcakes: A special blend of…
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TREND: Beyond Mini Cupcakes > Micro Cupcakes

First there were cupcakes. Then came mini cupcakes. Now, thanks to Melissa Bushell, there are micro-cupcakes: just one inch in diameter, or one bite. If you need more visualization, they’re the size of a quarter—there’s a photo on the website. We love them! You can have just a bite: one cupcake. You can have a…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: The Best Foods Of 2009, Part 2, Sweet Foods

A brownie with Somebody’s Mother’s heavenly white chocolate sauce. Photo by Corey Lugg | THE NIBBLE.   This is the second part of our “The Best Of 2009”: the Top Pick Of The Week specialty and gourmet food products that have become a permanent part of our lives. This week, our picks are the sweet…
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