Vegan chocolate cakes (not the topping though!)

 I purchased this book a few months back and I’m truly loving its recipes. I like the unpretentious way they are written and the basic recipes have so many variations, it really gets your creative baking juices flowing. haha. Anyway, these were the vegan chocolate cupcake recipe that I baked as a 8″ cake. It came … Continue reading →

Butterfly dreams

 In terms of cupcakes, these must be my most decadent ones thus far. Varlhona cocoa and coffee cakes, with hidden surprises of satiny chocoalte ganache made with Varlhona Guanaja as a filling, and topped with humongous swirls of meringue buttercream, sugar pearls and a gumpaste butterfly.   Sweet dreams everyone! Continue reading →

Meringue buttercream how-to and cupcakes!

Here is the long promised buttercream frosting recipe and details. I’ve had so much to do the past couple of months that I’v ebarely had the time to log on and reply to the comments here. But I have been baking quite a bit and hopefully I can catch up on my much-neglected postings the next … Continue reading →