Get the Dish: Magnolia Bakery Cupcakes


Updated 05/26/11 7:53 AM · Posted by YumSugar · 13 comments

Vanilla Cupcake Recipe

Have you ever wondered how to make a signature dish at one of your favorite restaurants? Well, get excited because our new video series, Get the Dish, teaches you how it's done! When it comes to cupcakes, there's nothing like Magnolia's classic vanilla cupcake. It's the treat that started the cupcake craze — so we went inside their bakery in LA to learn the technique to making perfectly Read more

Berry Tempting: Vanilla Cupcakes With Raspberry Frosting


Updated 04/24/11 1:16 PM · Posted by partysugar · 2 comments

Vanilla Cupcakes With Raspberry Frosting Recipe

Although it's almost the end of Summer, we aren't ready to give up our beloved berries just yet. Thus, for the next two weeks, we'll be devoting our attention to perfectly pink raspberries. To kick off the fun, I made these amazing cupcakes. Basically they are a vanilla cupcake filled with lemon curd and topped with a whipped raspberry frosting. It's a somewhat laborious process, but the final Read more

10 Tips to Save on Memorial Day Grocery Shopping


Updated 05/26/12 12:38 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

How to Save on a Memorial Day Meal

It's fun to host people for a barbecue, but it can also get quite pricey when everyone isn't chipping in. Consumer expert Andrea Woroch provides suggestions to cut your grocery bill when shopping for your Memorial Day meal: Prepare most of your meal. Woroch says, "The general rule for prepared foods is that they are more expensive, and it's cheaper to buy the ingredients to prepare yourself." Read more

Pucker Up to a Lemon Buttermilk Bundt Cake


Updated 05/21/12 10:56 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Lemon Buttermilk Bundt Cake Recipe

After eating my way through the cupcake craze, I'm ready to put my muffin tins away and dust off the cake pans that have been sitting at the back of my cupboards. Don't get me wrong: I love a tiny handheld treat. But there's something very satisfying slicing into — and serving — a full-sized cake. This time of year, I want something that goes well with a cup of tea or a scoop of fresh Read more

Get the Dish: Magnolia Bakery Cupcakes


Updated 05/16/12 9:50 AM · Posted by · 4 comments

Magnolia Bakery Cupcake Recipe Video

Have you ever wondered how to make a signature dish at one of your favorite restaurants? Well, get excited because our video series Get the Dish teaches you how it's done! When it comes to cupcakes, there's nothing like Magnolia's classic vanilla cupcake. It's the treat that started the cupcake craze — so we went inside their bakery in LA to learn the technique to making perfectly delicious Read more

Organic Valentine's Day Cupcakes From the Tone It Up Girls


Updated 02/11/11 11:00 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Organic Healthy Cupcakes For Valentine's Day

The Tone It Up girls just posted a recipe for healthy cupcakes and a workout video in the FitSugar Community. It's perfect for Valentine's Day! Hey FitSugar! Tone It Up is bringing you a delicious cupcake recipe to share with your partner this Valentine's Day Healthy Valentine’s Day Tone It Cupcakes! Combine dry ingredients… 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 1/2 cup vanilla whey or organic rice Read more

Sisters of DC Cupcakes Share Valentine's Day Baking Tips and Chocolate Ganache Recipe


Updated 02/13/12 3:20 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

Georgetown Cupcake Chocolate Ganache Cupcake Recipe

What's sugar and spice and everything nice? Cupcakes! And no one knows more about our obsession with the lil confections than Sophie LaMontagne and Katherine Kallinis, co-owners of Georgetown Cupcake and stars of TLC's DC Cupcakes. The sisters, who learned their kitchen skills from their grandmother ("We followed her around the kitchen and always begged to help"), have been known to bake up to Read more

For Your Recipe Box: The Perfect Yellow Cake


Updated 05/02/12 10:45 AM · Posted by · 4 comments

Moist Yellow Cake Recipe

I like to keep a few well-loved recipes in my repertoire to make time and time again, and birthday cake is something that I find myself happily making several times a year. I typically turn to a very rich chocolate cake from Ina Garten or a simple vanilla cake from the Magnolia Bakery cookbook. I've noticed, however, that yellow cake is a favorite of many, but until now I'd never thought to make Read more

Double Chocolate Cupcakes With Gooey Peanut Butter Center


Updated 02/14/12 12:00 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Double Chocolate Cupcakes With Peanut Butter Center Recipe

Pretty much any chocolate and peanut butter concoction means heaven to me and my sweetheart, so a double chocolate cupcake stuffed with a peanut butter center is a must make. These decadent cupcakes are light and moist with a perfect creamy peanut butter center. The sweet can actually be served with no frosting — they're already that delicious — but to take it to the next level, invest a Read more

Easter Cupcakes So Easy Your Kids Can Make Them!


Updated 04/06/12 4:05 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

How to Make Easter Cupcakes

Candy and cupcakes and treats, oh, my! In the hierarchy of holidays designed to give tots a sugar high, Easter must claim one of the top three spots. A holiday where candy is strewn about the yard? Sign me up! So when Jelly Belly teamed up with Karen Tack and Alan Richardson, the authors of the new Cupcakes, Cookies, & Pie, Oh, My! and the inspiring What's New, Cupcake?, for an evening of Read more