This Thursday, May 6th, I’m making my second appearance on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight along side Dana Joy Altman of Real Food Rehab and Angie Montroy of Angie’s Pantry. If you watched our last appearance you may remember the Great Macaron Misunderstanding. Well rest assured that we will be clearing up the difference between a French [...]

It’s time to party, let’s party Hang out with yourself and have a crazy party Hey you, let’s party Have a killer party and party! To know me is to love me – and to love me is to fully accept my Andrew W.K. obsession without question. There is nothing in this world that can [...]

salted caramel frosting Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy I first discovered salty sweets in high school when someone at my lunch table salted my Snickers bar just to be an asshole. The same concept behind a chocolate covered pretzel made what could have turned out to be a total waste of an 85-cent candy [...]

lovely Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy Last week end Tony and I snatched up a jar of cashew macadamia nut butter from Trader Joe’s. I thought it would make a delicious frosting and we spent the day going back and forth about what kind of cupcake such a rich frosting flavor would be best [...]

Vegan Iced Tea Cupcakes Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy! Ah yes, I’ve been threatening you with iced tea cupcakes for some time now and I finally made good on it this week end. The legend goes, my mother-in-law Jo (you may know her from her world famous eco-friendly grocery bags) drinks the shit out [...]

Lime Cat is Famous Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy! 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 [...]

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 cupcake than [...]

cakespy cafe Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy! Jessie Oleson, for those of you in need of a “things what are cute” lesson, is the Head Spy over at Cakespy.com and she is also a fantastic and hilarious painter. I wanted to make a cake ode to her before I throw myself head first into [...]

lemon cupcake Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy! I decided to fight off scurvy with these fresh, sunny lemon cupcakes. I’ve just recovered from a pretty gnarly cold and I was craving something citrusy that would wake up my sleepy tastebuds, numb from days of herbal tea, cold medicine and bland foods. Tony’s been going [...]

I made some chocolate cupcakes with Andes mint chocolate baking chips in them for Teno today (hence the Elmo liners, so shut up.) He’s obsessed with mint, he steals his grandma Jo’s Tic Tacs and is constantly trying to eat toothpaste straight from the tube. I almost topped these with chocolate buttercream because the idea [...]