Brownie Cupcakes with Chocolate Hazelnut Frosting

Cupcakes. I made these a couple of weeks ago. I was feeling like I hadn’t baked anything in ages. And when I did bake, it was a failure (like forgetting half the flour in the filling for a chocolate chip cookie pie. How does that even happen?).  Or it was something I had already made before and couldn’t really blog about again, like these cookies. So it was time to … Continue reading →



Devil’s Food Cake

On Tuesday it was my brother’s 12th birthday. I wanted to make him something special to celebrate the milestone, and at the same time use the opportunity to try out a new recipe. I don’t really love cake. I mean, why have crumbly cake when you can have silky lemon tart or molten chocolate fondants? But I was inspired by the four-layer Devil’s Food Cake recipe in Jill O’Connor’s Sticky, Chewy, … Continue reading →