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Russian Piping Tip Flower Basket Cake

September 8, 2017

Am I a little late to the Russian Piping Tip trend? Maybe! Did that in any way diminish my enthusiasm to test these guys out? NOPE! 😀 Today we’re not only testing out these newfangled devices BUT ALSO making a delish giant chocolate cupcake perfect for transforming into a flower basket! Enjoy!!


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 Giant Chocolate Cupcake
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  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease giant cupcake pan with cooking spray.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
  3. In a separate bowl, combine the eggs, buttermilk, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine. Stir in the coffee. Batter will be thin.
  4. Divide batter between the two pans, then bake for 55-60 min.
  5. Frost and decorate as desired. In the video, I use this frosting with cocoa powder and brown gel food color added for brown -- http://amzn.to/2eMbjtj .
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Easy Bake Oven Mini Girl Scout Cookies

April 6, 2017

If you love Girl Scout Cookies but don’t want to wait until next year to get them, this is the recipe for you!

Girl Scout Cookie Box Templates


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 Small Batch Sugar Cookies
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Sugar Cookie Base
Thin Mint Adaptation
Savannah Smiles Adaptation
Tagalongs
Samoas
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Sugar Cookie Base
Thin Mint Adaptation
Savannah Smiles Adaptation
Tagalongs
Samoas
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Sugar Cookies
  1. Cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in egg yolk, sour cream, and vanilla until smooth. Add in flour, baking powder, and salt until combined. Bake all cookies at 350 F for 6-7 minutes.
Thin Mints
  1. For Thin Mints, mix in cocoa powder, peppermint extract, and milk. Dip baked cookies into melted chocolate.
Savannah Smiles
  1. For Savannah Smiles, mix in lemon zest and lemon juice. Add flour if necessary. Toss in powdered sugar while cookies are still warm.
Tagalongs
  1. Pipe peanut butter onto baked sugar cookie, then dip in melted chocolate.
Samoas
  1. Dip bottom of Samoas in melted chocolate. Melt caramel and milk in microwave at 20 second intervals until melted and smooth. Mix in coconut, then pipe onto sugar cookies.
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Fawn Cake

March 21, 2017

If want to try out a twist on the now-famous unicorn cake, this fawn cake is the perfect welcome-to-spring cake for you! 😀

Antler Template


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 Fawn Cake
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  1. Preheat oven to 350F. Grease two 6" baking pans w/ cooking spray, line with parchment, and grease again. For remaining batter, you can either bake another 6" cake or bake about 12 cupcakes.
  2. Whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder. Set aside.
  3. In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together butter, shortening, and sugar until light and fluffy. Add in eggs one at a time, then mix in vanilla extract.
  4. Alternate adding dry ingredients and milk, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients. Mix only until mixture just comes together. Divide between pans (fill pans 7/8 full), then bake for 1 hour. Bake cupcakes for about 20-25 minutes.
  5. Let cool for 10 minutes, then remove from pans.
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