Cupcakes
Cupcakes
Fairy Cakes? Yep, they were once upon a time called fairy cakes, and patty cakes, (like the nursery rhyme) because some sweet woman, ages ago, must have told her children, teasingly, that she was baking a little cake for the fairies, and instead given it to them. Some Pagan beliefs indicated that, similar small cakes, ...
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Seasonal & Holiday Cupcake Recipes
Valentines Day Cupcakes: Ingredients: 3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened 1 1/2 cups sugar 3 large eggs 3 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. cream of tartar 1 1/3 cups buttermilk 2 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract Frosting: 1 cup unsalted butter, softened 3 cups sifted confectioners’ sugar 2 tsp. vanilla extract 2 tbsp. ...
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Muffins
American muffins are similar to a small cake. They look like cupcakes but they are not as sweet as cupcakes. They have round dome tops and are about the size of an adult human palm. American muffins come in a variety of flavors, where the special ingredient is baked right in them. Some of the ...
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Petit Fours
Petit fours are probably one of a hundred different kinds of absolutely beautiful desserts; depending of course on the region in which they’re made. In America, for instance, petit fours were fancy cakes; usually layered sponge cakes, filled with buttercream icing, or layered over with fondant. Fondant is basically sugar and water, cooked until it’s ...
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Tea Cakes
Tea cakes are basically any sort of snack to have with tea. Depending on where you’re from, you can have either biscuits, which, in America is just cookies, with your tea, or something more fancy, –though the standard tea accompanient in the U.K. is a small package of plate of biscuits. In the U.S., afternoon ...
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