Note: Jessie Oleson (aka Cakespy) is a good pal of Serious Eats and an all-around super cool gal. Every Monday she will be chiming in with a delicious dessert recipe. [Photographs: Jessie Oleson] Cupcakes and ice cream--those twin quasars of...
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"A grown-up version of the childhood classic." [Flickr: FotoosVanRobin] I suppose it wouldn't be right for an entire week of tiny desserts from Carole Bloom's Bite-Size Desserts to pass without including at least one cupcake recipe. Sure, they might be...
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These cupcakes are made with boxed cake mix enhanced with crème fraîche and glazed with lavender blossom-flavored icing.
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If you like cream cheese brownies, you'll love these Chocolate Cream Cheese Cupcakes, from the March issue of Bon Appétit magazine. They have a deep chocolate flavor with a tangy cream cheese and chocolate chip filling. They weren't too...
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This recipe is the drop-cookie of chocolate cakes: an effortless chocolate batter that makes crowd-pleasing cupcakes, but is easily adapted to produce layer cakes, too. It's so easy, in fact, that Martha Stewart admits it hardly belongs on her Cooking...
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I love corn. When it’s in season, I sneak fresh sweet corn into every meal that I can. Before it goes out of season, I cut a bunch off of the cob to keep in the freezer, and when that...
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Ever since I first started baking as a child, I've been searching for a recipe for strawberry cupcakes—perfect, pink confections with the sweet flavor of pure sunshine. There are plenty of versions to be found, but most call for frozen...
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The best part about taste testing a recipe for cupcakes is that you can get a dozen opinions. This week for my magazine recipe review I decided to bake the banana cupcakes with honey-cinnamon frosting from the March issue of...
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This week, in honor of Valentine's Day, we've put together a list of our favorite books on chocolate, with one Cook the Book recipe a day adapted from each volume. Today's addition to our "Chocolate Lover's Library" is one that...
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