Moist Vanilla Cupcakes with Easy Chocolate Buttercream Frosting

Cupcakes are funny things. While it’s super easy to make a so-so homemade cake, a stellar, moist, non-eggy cake with a perfect crumb? Not so much. This stuff is some crazy tasty- light, fluffy, and just sweet enough.  Plus, it gives you a slightly good excuse to bust out the old piping bag and pretend [...]

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Pinky Macarons with Baileys Buttercream

Macarons are such divas! They do everything you don’t want them to. Like my first batch. They emerged from the oven with lopsided feet, rejecting my silent prayers for symmetry. The second batch was even worse. They had magnificently erupted into a cracked volcanic, brittle rocks. It was dreadful.

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