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Spooky Stuffed Halloween Cupcakes

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What’s more fun than these stuffed halloween cupcakes with a hidden spooky surprise? This recipe is sure to please kids and adults alike.

Fun Halloween Desserts Recipe Idea - DIY Stuffed Halloween Cupcakes with Bones and Eyeballs! A great Halloween food party treat!

Now that Labor Day and summer are officially behind us, it’s time to start thinking forward to Halloween! Are you planning a Halloween party this year? I feel like every year I end up working at the children’s hospital and I wouldn’t have it any other way! Halloween at the hospital is a joyous day, filled with costumes, trick-or-treating, and decorations.

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Perfectly Moist Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

The BEST perfectly moist carrot cake recipe. It’s perfectly spiced, perfectly sweet and so delicious! So good, I made it for my wedding!

BEST Homemade Carrot Cake Recipe with Pineapple

I don’t think I’ve mentioned this on the blog before, but baked my own wedding cake. Is that crazy? If it is, then I should also mention that made a full dessert table – full of my own dessert creations.

The crown jewel of the dessert table was a two-tiered wedding cake. The larger tier was this incredible carrot cake. It’s my favorite cake in the whole world – and my husband’s too!

Read on for the best carrot cake recipe decorated with beautiful candied carrot curls…

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Red, White, Blue Dessert for July 4th & Labor Day

America! Celebrate with this easy red, white, and blue dessert recipe – a vanilla bundt cake topped with buttercream frosting & fresh berries.

Red, White, Blue Berry Cake Recipe for 4th July

Easy 4th of July Dessert

I’m putting a patriotic twist on my favorite bundt cake recipe today by adding fresh berries! Summer means berries are in peak season, which is even more reason to put them on a cake. 

Read on for this fun 4th of July cake or Jump to the Recipe…

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Best Strawberry Cupcakes EVER

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Tried and tested, this is the best strawberry cupcakes recipe! Banish mushy cupcakes and read on for the secret to perfect strawberry buttercream frosting.Best Strawberry Cupcakes Recipe with Strawberry Buttercream Frosting

The internet is full of bad recipes for strawberry cupcakes. This watery fruit is a tricky one to bake with as it releases all that water into your cake or cupcake making it totally mushy. Most of the recipes out there are either soggy because of this or they skip the real strawberries altogether and use some variation of strawberry extract or flavoring…. Read More »

S’mores Cupcakes Recipe with Toasted Marshmallow Frosting

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Drop everything and make this stuffed s’mores cupcakes recipe topped with toasted marshmallow frosting. The graham cracker cupcake is stuffed with chocolate ganache making every bite a bit of heaven.

Stuffed S'mores Cupcakes Recipe with Toasted Marshmallow Frosting

I’m the queen of s’mores. You’ll find s’mores recipes everywhere on my blog, from s’mores milkshakes to s’mores cheesecake. I even have a Pinterest board dedicated to s’mores!… Read More »