Despite my sister-in-law’s shirt which reads, “Flint: Where the weak are killed and eaten,” there is actually something awesome happening in Flint, MI on May 3rd

I don’t get to blog about my husband’s beloved hometown very often, mostly because the only recipes anyone there uses are put to use in meth labs. But it looks [...]

vegan chocolate chip brownie waffles
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This recipe comes from Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero’s Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook. I was so excited to get this big, beautiful book in the mail the other day. First of all, these two are the most reliable vegan recipe writers I’ve ever [...]

Lime Cat is Famous
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First of all, this is not what my cupcakes looked like. This is Lime Cat, famous Internet superstar. I’m stupid and I forgot to take pictures of the cupcakes I made yesterday and I couldn’t find any pictures of limes or coconuts that didn’t make me fall [...]

Jo’s birthday cake
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I’ve been taunting my mother-in-law Jo with iced tea cupcakes for months now. She drinks this vile instant iced tea powder, I thought it’d be funny to mix it into frosting and frost lemon cupcakes with it. Then I thought about the chai cupcake recipe from Vegan Cupcakes [...]

I thought I’d try something new by posting a gift guide with enough time for people to actually purchase my suggestions. These things are a total pain in the ass, what with the image uploading and the linking, so I hope they’re somewhat useful. As with all my gift guides, this is part wish [...]

Banana Crunch Muffin
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This is an Ina Garten recipe, so it makes a ton of muffins. For the original measurements click here. What follows is a conversion to make one dozen muffins.
You will need:

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
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I sold out of my t-shirts just in time for CM Punk to wear one in his Wrestlemania diary, leading many wrestling fans to marvel at “the wonders of Punk.” As much as I appreciated him supporting me I would like to point out that I sold out of shirts BEFORE he wore one. [...]

My apologies to anyone who tried the Paula Deen red velvet recipe I posted around December. At the time I thought they were pretty OK, then I made these. Based on Magnolia’s red velvet cake recipe, I scaled this back to make about 18 cupcakes. What resulted was a much more cocoa-y, fluffy [...]

black metal toppers
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Cassie from How to Eat a Cupcake asked me to help her on some black metal cupcakes for a friend. I hadn’t yet discovered The Black Oven, so I suggested something along the lines of a black forest cake. The words “black forest” make me want to run [...]

I have a new crush…
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If my blog and this blog had babies, those baby blogs would do meth and eat goat heads. Therefore, The Black Oven is my new favorite blog… no, my new favorite thing ever.
I had been kicking around the idea of a black forest [...]