Swiss meringue buttercream is a silky icing that uses egg whites, sugar and butter. It's not too sweet, and perfect for piping and frosting cakes and cupcakes. Here, you'll learn how to make this silky frosting, heating egg whites and sugar in a double boiler, then adding butter to the meringue. ...
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Spice Cake With Creamy Caramel Icing
Spice cake with creamy caramel icing is light and flavorful. The cooked caramel frosting is smooth and delicious like brown sugar fudge. Take it from me you won't want to miss this combination. Spice cake with caramel! It's one of the best things in life. This two-layer, easy-to-make ...
Easy Halloween Chocolate Lollipops
Easy Halloween chocolate lollipops get sprinkled and garnished with sparkly, shiny and crunchy orange candy for a festive party treat and favor. I like treats. I love the ones that are simple to make, and even better to eat. These easy Halloween chocolate lollipops win for sure. You ...
Eerie Eyeball Cupcakes
Eyeball cupcakes check out everyone that walks by your Halloween treat table. Grab one before they LOOK away! Mini cupcakes make the perfect canvas for creepy, delicious Halloween eyes. I love having a big platter of these lookers on my treat table! A few simple candies and frosting is all ...
Whoopie Pies for Halloween
Whoopie Pies for Halloween are the most delicious chocolate cake cookies with silky, buttery filling, decorated with holiday sprinkles. I love cake. Cake and meringue buttercream. My reason for making whoopie pies is that I can then hold that piece of delicious cake right in my hand! No fork needed. ...
Floating Ghost Cupcakes • Tara Teaspoon
Floating ghost cupcakes will make all the ghouls come out to the Halloween party. These cute fondant treats are easy to make, even the little witches and storm troopers can help. These darling ghost cupcakes have a storied history, but we'll get to that later! First off I just have to talk ...
15 Mind Blowing Fruit Salsa Recipes
Fruit takes center stage on a dip that is usually reserved for the lone tomato! Fruit salsas are the unsung hero of summer sides. I love salsa, but it seems tomatoes are always hogging all the salsa glory. Quite frankly, I'm tired of it. It's high time we gave other salsas their moment in the ...
101 Ways To Love Bacon
Oh, bacon! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! No really, let's count them. Just when you thought you couldn't love bacon any more than you already do, here are 101 ways to enjoy this delicious meaty treat. HINT: It's not just for breakfast anymore. Bacon is meat candy. Admit it, ...
Carrot Cake Pancakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
Carrot Cake Pancakes with spice and a hint of orange zest are a delicious excuse to eat a little something sweet for breakfast, and cream cheese frosting, if you need an excuse for that! Guest post by: Morgan Aibinder of The Improv Kitchen Tara and I met last year on a photo shoot for KitchenAid, ...
Pecan Crispies Cookies • Tara Teaspoon
Pecan Crispies are the perfect cookie jar treat. Buttery and crunchy with plenty of nuts–ready to be dunked in milk or coffee. • • • You may be flooded with nostalgia when you make these buttery, nutty Pecan Crispies. Perfect for eating with hot drinks or dunking in ice cold milk, they came from ...
The Ultimate Golden Globes Party Guide
Throw a Golden Globes viewing party in style. The best nibbles, a red carpet entrance and printable ballots are easy to pull together. You say "Golden Globes" and all I hear is "party." I love any excuse to get people together, have fun, and of course, eat! I've pulled together some ...
Pistachio Chocolate Bark (Palettes)
Chocolate bark gets a festive French makeover! If you wander around Paris and make your way through every chocolate shop you see (which is what every food-obsessed gal does, right?), you'll run across beautiful trays of little palettes. What you're looking at is essentially chocolate bark, made the ...
Gingerbread Caramel Sauce and Apple Dip
Gingerbread caramel sauce tastes like all the wonderful spices of the holidays in molten sugar heaven. Use this as a dessert sauce, for ice cream or just as a dip for apples or cookies. Gingerbread caramel sauce is in my top ten. Really! My list of favorite recipes changes all the time. I get in ...
Peppermint Cloud Brownies with Marshmallows
Peppermint Cloud Brownies with marshmallows are the ultimate, easy, holiday treat! • • • Peppermint and chocolate are one of my favorite combos. At the holidays I get to indulge in every which way! Hot cocoa, candy bark, cookies and I always make these brownies! This post may include affiliate ...