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Recipe ~ Easy Dark Chocolate Ganache

Tracy — Tue, 07 May 2013 06:15:43 +0000

Don’t you just love dark chocolate ganache? It’s one of my favourite toppings for chocolate cupcakes and chocolate cakes. Whilst on a family holiday in Cyprus recently, I noticed that the hotel we stayed in regularly served chocolate ganache in one form or another in it’s desserts. I am pretty certain that it was made using the same % of [...]

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Lightning McQueen Cupcake Fun.

Tracy — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 11:03:12 +0000

I thought I’d share with you the Lightning McQueen cake and cupcakes that I made recently for my son’s birthday. The cupcakes were chocolate sponge and vanilla bean buttercream topped with edible toppers. These were given to his friends at the end of his birthday party. I packaged them in single clear plastic cupcake pods which were so [...]

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Fun Fridays ~ Oreo Owl Cupcakes

Tracy — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:54:17 +0000

Via Nicolehill.blogspot.com These fun owl cupcakes caught my eye for today’s Fun Friday post by nicolehill.blogspot.com. To make an owl, pull apart an oreo cookie to make the large eyes. Use a chocolate candy for the centre, and another candy sweet for the nose. I would probably chose ’Smarties’ sweets ( if you’re in the UK) as they come in various colours. Place [...]

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