Decadent dark chocolate cupcakes are piped with a salted caramel buttercream and drizzled in homemade bourbon caramel sauce for a delicious sweet and salty dessert. Click HERE to save this recipe for Dark Chocolate Cupcakes! Dark Chocolate Cupcakes From Scratch We recently celebrated both girls’ birthdays. Madeline and Kendall’s birthdays are about a week apart …

Dark Chocolate Molten Lava Cake Sundaes are the perfect Valentine’s Day dessert. Lava cake, with a center that tastes like the most delicious hot fudge, is topped with ice cream and sliced almonds for a pretty presentation and decadent chocolate richness. This recipe for Dark Chocolate Almond Molten Lava Cake Sundaes was made in partnership …

Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream and Fresh Raspberry Sauce are the perfect combo of a fluffy, light vanilla cupcake, rich chocolate buttercream, and a tangy, sweet fresh raspberry sauce. I always make cupcakes for the kids on their birthdays. I am not so much a fan of the process of making and decorating layer cakes, …

This recipe for Chocolate Gingerbread Cake takes the classic flavors of Gingerbread and pairs them with dark cocoa. This cake takes about 10 minutes to throw together and bakes up deliciously. We made it through Thanksgiving! SIGH OF RELIEF! I had my kids home with me this year which was an awesome change from spending …

Feed both cake and cookie cravings with these amazing Gluten Free Oatmeal Cookie Cupcakes. Top with brown sugar frosting for a real treat! Written by: Brielle Gundersen of Breezy Bakes So I discovered a gluten free all-purpose flour a while ago that has been such a life saver! Now, I’m one for making my own …

This weekend we had a block party on our street. It was the perfect way to celebrate fall in Colorado and enjoy some great food and fun friends. And if tomorrow morning we wake up to full on winter, at least fall went out with a bang for our street. Fall to me is always …

Learn how delicious gluten-free baking can be with this recipe for Gluten Free Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Cake. I have one goal here: to prove to you that gluten free can be amazing. No, this is not a joke. No, I’m not pulling your chain here. I’m 100% telling you the honest to goodness truth. Written …

These Chocolate Mint Cupcakes feature chocolate cupcakes with chunks of andes mint and vanilla mint buttercream Food has always a big part of how I express love and kindness to my family. It feels good to make something special for them and enjoy eating it together. Even better, though, is when I get to spend …

A couple weeks ago I had a birthday. With my sister living in Colorado now, this birthday was extra special. I don’t think I’ve celebrated my birthday with her since high school. She planned a sisters special spa day for us during the day while the kids were at school on a Friday. We enjoyed …

Someone had a birthday last week! Birthdays, of course, call for cupcakes. I asked Logan what flavor he wanted and he said “Vanilla Cupcakes.” Vanilla is his favorite flavor and usually the flavor of ice cream he picks so it was really no surprise. I made a batch of our favorite Vanilla Bean Cupcakes to celebrate. …

These cute Cherry Vanilla Cupcakes have bits of real maraschino cherry in the bright pink Cherry Vanilla Buttercream. They’re the perfect treat for Valentine’s Day. Food is a big part of how I express love and kindness to my family. It feels good to make something special for them and watch them enjoy eating it. …

A simple and moist chocolate cupcake recipe with a fail-proof cream cheese frosting colored pink for Valentine’s Day. These Valentine’s Cupcakes are a hit at parties! Click HERE to save this recipe for Valentine’s Cupcakes! Written by: Caroline Edwards of Chocolate & Carrots Easy Valentine’s Day Dessert Idea If you’re scrounging around for a last-minute …

I’ve never been a fan of making layer cakes. Although they look beautiful, a layer cake takes a considerable amount of time to make look presentable. I typically spend one hour just icing the thing and even then, my cake doesn’t look that great. That’s why I absolutely love bundt cakes. Bundt cakes, like this Whole …

My sister just moved to Boulder. We live near each other for the first time since I was still living at home and in high school. Within a week of her moving here we celebrated her birthday. Naturally, Chocolate Pumpkin Cheesecake was in order. There were definitely things to celebrate! Allie said she wanted something …

It is that time of year again – Madeline just turned 5! These Strawberry Lime Cupcakes were made especially for my birthday girl. I can hardly believe that she is five! And in kindergarten! Suddenly looking so very grown up all of the time. This fall has been more busy than ever before so we …

Do you have problems baking cupcakes at high altitude? Look no further! I have all kinds of tips and tricks for high altitude cupcake baking success here! I don’t bake cupcakes a lot. It isn’t that I don’t like them, but perhaps due to the fact that I find recipes are very finicky here in …

Last week I was all about finding the Perfect White Cupcakes for a certain someone’s fourth birthday party that we had this past Saturday. It was a week long adventure for sure! There were several batches baked and tweaked, frustrated phone calls to Jamie from My Baking Addiction, and more tweaks. It turns out I …

The Lemon Blackberry Cupcakes is written by Ali of Gimme Some Oven. Welcome, Ali! I’m taking some time off to be with my family for a little while. One of my favorite things about the arrival of warm weather is getting to spend time outside enjoying it with good friends. From grilling on the back …

Remember those Cupcakes with Nutella, Almond Butter, and Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting I teased you with in this week’s kitchen tip (related Kitchen Tip: Two Tone Frosting for Cupcakes)? Here they are! I’m so sorry you had to wait, but you needed to know about piping with multiple frosting flavors onto cupcakes before you could …

After I posted the Lemon Coconut Cupcakes that I made for Logan’s birthday so many of you asked: How did you make the two-toned color icing for those cupcakes? The two tone technique for decorating cupcakes is really a lot easier than you might think and it is so fun. Besides looking pretty, you can …

These Lemon Coconut Cupcakes with Lemon Buttercream are a delicious spring cupcake to celebrate a birthday with! Well Logan. It’s that time again – your birthday! Every year I can’t believe how much bigger you have gotten. And this year you’re SIX! How did that happen? Are you sure you’re really that old? We’ve been …

When I realized that Dr. Seuss’s Birthday was coming up, I knew that we had to do something to celebrate! His books are some of our most often read in our house at bedtime. Madeline is especially fond of them. She often requests Fox in Socks which still leaves me tongue tied! Right now my …

These Chocolate Sour Cream Cupcakes are topped with a bright and delicious Raspberry Cheesecake Buttercream. I’ve got one last Valentine’s Day recipe to share with you. Can you believe Cupid’s day is in just a couple days? The kids and I have had so much fun making new recipes to share with you for this …

These Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes are one of those recipes where I really don’t know what to tell you about them. I had the thought to come up with some sort of pumpkin cupcake for Halloween and did a quick Google search for Chocolate Pumpkin Cupcakes and this is the recipe I found. I finally got …