Delicious apple pie filling inside and atop a spiced cupcake. Yellow cupcakes frosted with a cinnamon American buttercream. A good apple pie alternative that’s easier to serve. No pie cutter or ice cream needed! If you find yourself with some tart apples, but not enough for an apple pie—this dessert is a perfect choice. I …
Candy Corn Macarons
Cute Halloween treats for those of us that aren’t interested in eating bloody fingers or gross out desserts. Don’t get me wrong I LOVE Halloween, but I prefer classy gothic Halloween to the blood and gore aesthetic. These macarons are delicious. so good I was admonished for sharing them. Thank god I gave most of …
Candy Corn Buttercream
If I told you I melted down candy corn to make icing, would you think I’m nuts? Well I did it AND it worked! Mwahahahaha. Combine that madness with Swiss Meringue Buttercream and oh man. So good! I choose Swiss Meringue because American buttercream would have been too sweet and Italian buttercream freaks me out. …
Cute Strawberry Macarons
Ugghhh these are so delicious! Inspired by those white strawberries and flavored with real strawberries. Filling is a silky Swiss meringue buttercream—which makes me feel so fancy, but I’m sure is just making me fat. Strawberry Flavor To get that authentic berry flavor, pulverize freeze dried strawberries into a powder. Sift it into the buttercream. …
Orange Star Wars Sandwich Cookies
May the 4th be with you! These ARE the cookies you’re looking for. Deliciously tart cookies with a creamy citrus buttercream center. Fresh orange zest baked into buttery cookies really make these galactic sandwiches come alive! I know there is a lot of opinions on the the new movies, I have mine as well, but …
Orange Creamsicle Macarons
I’ve made macarons before, and it was a disaster to say the least. So I scrapped that recipe and tried a new one! NEVER GIVE UP FAM. I wanted to take out some of the sugar that is typically in these cookies. They are still pretty sweet though! Every recipe I saw had around the …
Easy Summer Watermelon Cake
You can throw this cake together with minimal cake decorating knowledge. Plus it’s super cute! You could get all profesh and go the fondant route, but you don’t need to. This gets the watermelon point across fine! Use any yellow or white cake recipe / even a box mix. Get out some food coloring and …
Lemon Raspberry ‘Ice and Fire’ Cake
In honor of the season premiere of Game of Thrones, I decided to make a little Fire and Ice cake. This recipe uses a box mix, but I doctored it up to get a richer taste. Swapping out oil for butter and milk for water. Also added lemon juice and zest. Inside the layers are …