Carrot Coconut Cupcakes and White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing

Carrot cake is best when you serve it with cream cheese frosting.  It is even better when you serve it with white chocolate cream cheese icing! This recipe comes from another favourite cookbook: Rebar Modern Food Cookbook. This is no ordinary carrot cake.  There are many additional ingredients found in this recipe.  A lot of…

Coconut Rum Cupcakes

This is a must have for coconut lovers!! Coconut rum brings another level to the coconut flavour.  Choose your favourite coconut rum and bake away! Begin by beating softened butter and slowly adding brown sugar.  You want to combine the brown sugar until it becomes a light brown and the majority of the sugar has…

Yummy Flourless Cupcakes!!

My aunt has celiac disease, a disease that affects the small intestine.  Gluten damages the small intestines and that is why celiacs go on a gluten-free diet.  A couple of years ago, when my aunt discovered she was celiac, her life changed.  She had to restrict many things out of her diet such as cakes,…

Red Velvet Cupcakes

Red velvet cake has become a very popular cake.  Red velvet is a basic buttermilk cake with red food colouring.  No one knows the exact origins of the cake and some believe cocoa in the cake turns a reddish colour when mixed with vinegar.  I have not proven this to be true but I believe…