I got another recipe for you - I tested a carrot cake recipe the other day. Or let's say: I mixed the two recipes that I have and I mixed them up with some traditional and some very colorful cream cheese frosting. (more...)

One of the very first things I wanted to do after moving back was trying out some cupcake recipes - in a decent kitchen (aka my mom's)! So I chose two recipes, one for the classic Red Velvet Cupcakes and one for more fancy Tiramisu Cupcakes. I wasn't very happy with the Red Velvet ones, since they turned out quite - well, Brown Velvet actually because of the cocoa, and using only baking soda and no baking powder apparently wasn't a good choice. Add a cream cheese butter cream that goes all flaky and you end up with a weird little cupcake. I won't share the recipe with you, but I will share the pictures I took throughout the whole thing.

 

Now, the Tiramisu cupcakes are a whole different story. They might not be the obvious choice for a cupcake cafe since they are quite labor intense, but the outcome was incredibly delicious!

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Wow, I guess I'm back in the blogging world. To be honest, I missed it a lot. I just wasn't very happy with my old blog anymore (using LiveJournal) and then never got around to start something else. I FINALLY picked a theme that I like - don't get me wrong, there are tons that I love, most of which don't really work for one reason or another, and I always have a hard time deciding.

Why now? Because right now marks a huge change in my life. I'm going from working for a global company in New York to starting over in my little German hometown, trying to work as a freelance web designer and eventually to open up my own cupcake cafe somewhere way down the road. It's exciting, but also immensly scary.

I love baking and I'll be testing tons of cupcake recipes, which I'm gonna share as well as some of my photographs and the results of my very unhealthy obsession with TV shows and movies