Peanut Butter & Blueberry Pupcakes


Berries, Cupcakes, Dog Treats, Recipes

It’s that time of year again, Finn’s birthday!  Big birthday boy! He’s a whopping six years old now.  Goodness, how does that even happen?!  I swear, time moves so brutally fast. Last year I baked up those Pumpkin & Peanut Butter Pupcakes for him, which he seemed to enjoy.  But this year, as I like to […]

July 24, 2019

Flawless Chocolate Cupcakes with Russian Buttercream


Cake, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Frosting, Gluten Free, Recipes

Lately these days I’m finding I have less and less and less time in a day. I mean c’mon, where the heck does it all go?!  I swear, one minute I’m groggily trying to drag my night owl rear end up for the day and the next I’m back in bed for the night wondering […]

March 6, 2019

Perfect Vanilla Cake


Cake, Cupcakes, Recipes

I have a favorite chocolate cake recipe that I use for almost all cake requirements. I’m thrilled when my kids ask for chocolate for their birthday cakes because I know I’ve got it covered. But vanilla? I wilt a little when they ask for that because the recipes I’ve tried before have fallen flat. The […]

January 20, 2019

Pumpkin & Peanut Butter Pupcakes


Cake, Cupcakes, Dog Treats, Muffins, Quick Bread, Recipes

Let us not forget our furry four-legged barrels of fun this pumpkin season, shall we?  It’s Pumpkin & Peanut Butter Pupcakes!  Yay! Yes, going for a non-bipedal treat today.  You could eat these yourself though if you wanted to. Finn, our dopey nutcase, came into our lives right near exactly four years ago at a […]

October 30, 2018

Boston Cream Pie Cupcakes


Cake, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Recipes

There are generally only two seasons in Chicago:  sunny and gray.  Construction and winter.  We’re still somehow in construction despite the changing thermometer readings and the roadways are getting worse rather than better but at the same time, we’ve far too quickly switched to gray.  As it goes here. This is a long way to […]

October 3, 2018

Buttermilk Chocolate Chip Crumb Cupcakes


Cake, Chocolate, Cupcakes, Gluten Free, Recipes

Let me get this out of the way:  these are stupid good. You know that good.  That one where you get the wiggles, your tastebuds flutter, your eyes roll into the back of your head, knees buckle, your jaw drops.  Yep. Just take one bite, I thought, no big deal, you’ll be fiiine.  You gotta […]

March 20, 2018