baking
self-frosting chocolate cupcakes
Alright, I need you to to be realistic. When I say self-frosting cupcakes, I need you to understand that we’re not talking about a buttercream frosting here. That would be redonkulous. Honestly, how is a cupcake going to cream the butter and pipe icing onto itself? Use your heads. But these cupcakes do have a…
Read Morechocolate pudding {cake}
This is not a lava cake. It is not a molten cake. It’s chocolate pudding. That’s the proper name. I’ll go so far as to call it chocolate pudding cake for you, but that’s it. This perfect confection doesn’t need a trendy name. Nope. No way. It needs an old fashioned name. A name that…
Read Moremelt in your mouth shortbreads
Dear Christmas, I’m getting excited to see you again. What’s it been? A year? I thought I saw you in the grocery store around Halloween, but then I thought, “no way. Christmas wouldn’t show up before Halloween has a chance to do whatever the heck it does.” What does Halloween do? I’m guessing they don’t…
Read Morebanana chocolate chip muffins
When did muffins get so healthy? Remember when you didn’t have to sharpen your teeth to gnaw through a muffin? When coarse texture was frowned upon? When muffins were basically cake that you could eat for breakfast? When I was a kid, muffins were either a) unhealthy, or b) bran. Two options. Now muffins are…
Read Morepussycat polvorones
I have a friend. Her name is Pussycat. I’m Owl, and she’s Pussycat. You know, like the Edward Lear poem. The one about the owl that falls in love with a cat? They went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat? Read a book for cripes’ sake. Anyhoo, I met Pussycat when we were…
Read Moreyippie cakes
I know what you’re thinking: those are whoopie pies. But you’d be wrong. Here at the Cat Farm, we call ’em yippie cakes. Because that’s how 2.0 likes it. And I accommodate this request. Mostly because he made up the name himself, and has called them yippie cakes since he was a kid. And I…
Read Moreclassic cupcakes
Friends, you might want to give this cupcake recipe a try. The cupcake itself has a classic vanilla-almond flavouring. The icing is a variation on a classic buttercream. But friends? Don’t use black food colouring in the icing. Don’t. You might be thinking: but movita! That cupcake looks pretty good all dressed in greyish-black. And then…
Read More2.0’s snack mix
This is a variation of a snack mix recipe that one of my students, Eda, gave me. Eda is in my Ballet for Seniors class. Yah, that’s right. Every Tuesday I’m faced with a group of the coolest seniors on the planet. Trust me, you wanna be them. Über cool. Awesome like the bestest, funnest…
Read Moreperfect party cupcakes
Sometimes, when you are extremely important and busy, you forget stuff. I forgot to tell you about these cupcakes. I’ve made them a couple of times, and they are awesome. But I made them back in the summer. Remember summer? It was warm and sunny and stuff? And all those months ago, I planned to…
Read Moreoliver’s cake {old-fashioned white cake}
Here’s the problem when you tell everyone on the planet about your life – people will actually remember when you say things like: I took a cake decorating class in the summer. But they won’t necessarily remember the stuff like: I sucked at that cake decorating class in the summer. Generally, this is a good…
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