Carrot Cheesecake Cupcakes – A Cupcake a Day in May

by ChicCakeChick // May 7, 2015 // 3 Comments

It’s day seven of Cupcake a Day May. It’s also Topless Thursday – which means no frosting! First up on Topless Thursday are Carrot Cheesecake Cupcakes. I figured that as cream cheese frosting is so good with carrot cake, cream... Continue reading →

Butter Pecan Cupcakes – a Cupcake a Day in May

by ChicCakeChick // May 4, 2015 // 1 Comment

A flavour that I admit I have overlooked in my cooking for far too many years is Butter Pecan. I first made it as ice cream from a Ben and Jerry’s recipe book – whole pecans fried in butter until... Continue reading →

Heirloom Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Dangling a Carrot

by ChicCakeChick // August 30, 2014 // 3 Comments

It’s a perennial favourite, carrot cake. For some, it’s the best cake there is. And a good carrot cake is definitely worth craving. I have one of those cravings recently, which led to some twists and turns on my go-to... Continue reading →

Gluten Free is Nutty – Hazelnut Nutella Cupcakes

by ChicCakeChick // July 12, 2013 // 3 Comments

Readers of this blog might have guessed that I don’t normally hold with gluten free. Its kind of a religious position, and for me it is indefensible because of the happy fact that I don’t have to. I posses cells which will synthesise the blessed enzymes which process that most... Continue reading →