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Poodle cupcakes!

Posted by on 31 Dec 1969 at 6:00 pm under pupcakes, animal cupcakes, dog, poodle, Holly Klein, Unfurled, dogs, Serious Eats

These were the photo of the day at Serious Eats, and rightly so.
They’re by Holly Klein of Unfurled, who writes:
These chocolate cupcakes have a simple buttercream frosting and are decorated with marshmallows, cinnamon dots, chocolate chips, and black icing. They’re named after Sandi Klein, my childhood poodle. Ironically, Sandi was diabetic, so we gave her […]

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Serious Eats on what makes the perfect cupcake

Posted by on 31 Dec 1969 at 6:00 pm under Serious Eats, Dessert Club ChikaLicious, Ed Levine, cupcake criteria

photos by Ed Levine
Ed Levine at Serious Eats visits Dessert Club ChikaLicious (one of our favorite NYC cupcake bakeries) and explains the criteria for a really great cupcake:
I am not one of those people who have bought into the cupcake craze. In fact, let me say this straightaway: There are a lot of bad […]

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Black cat cupcakes for Halloween

Posted by on 31 Dec 1969 at 6:00 pm under holidays, cupcake decorating, kids and cupcakes, Halloween, food blogs, animal cupcakes, Serious Eats, cats, candy and cupcakes, Matthew Amster-Burton

Matthew Amster-Burton shared these black cat cupcakes at Serious Eats that he made with his 4-year-old daughter, Iris:
That sounds hard.”
“We could use cupcakes.” This is her solution to everything.
We wanted them to be black cats, of course, but my wife Laurie reminded me that black food coloring tastes terrible, so we decided on dark chocolate […]

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