Eating My Words: Cupcake Heaven

Friday, April 10, 2009

Cupcake Heaven

Today was cupcake day at my house. I'm having the fam over for Easter, and I was only going to make one kind of cupcake for dessert. Then I ran across a recipe for coconut cupcakes that sounded too good to pass by. And then I figured I couldn't make those and my carrot-cake cupcakes without doing something to make the chocolate lovers happy.

So...four hours later, I've got carrot-cake cupcakes (the same ones I've made before), coconut cupcakes and chocolate ganache cupcakes, all done and ready for

Sunday. They're off to the freezer so I don't eat them (and neither do the kids or DH) before then. But boy, the bits I have had...YUM.

Shirley

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Penelope Ella Susan12:25 AM
I'd blow it and eat one of each! I'll bet they were terrific!
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Shirley12:06 PM
They were all great! My favorite were the coconut. I think ;-) My daughter ate almost all the chocolate, and lots of people went back for the carrot-cake again and again. I sent extras into DH's work and heard they were gone in seconds. :-)

Shirley
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Shirley12:06 PM
They were all great! My favorite were the coconut. I think ;-) My daughter ate almost all the chocolate, and lots of people went back for the carrot-cake again and again. I sent extras into DH's work and heard they were gone in seconds. :-)

Shirley
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Friday, April 10, 2009

Cupcake Heaven

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