Dinning Baking with the Bloggers - June 25th. 2007
Forgive me, friends - I'm totally out of the loop with the whole writing posts thing, after these couple of weeks of intense studying. So I'll ease myself in slowly with a little bit of cake - shall we?;-) Horchata Cupcakes from Cupcake Bakeshop by Chockylit Yeah, right. This doesn't really look like a cupcake, does it? No. This was (one of the) wedding cake(s) I made for one of my best friends wedding, this past April. She wanted comfy, homemade cakes, and boy, did she get 'em. I've also made the horchata cupcakes as cupcakes , and they are fantastic, regardless of their shape. The beauty of them is that they keep fantastically well - I had one of the cupcakes a coupe days after I made them and they stay remarkably fresh and moist. Loved that. I had no idea what horchata was, when I first saw the recipe, but seeing almonds are my favorite nuts of them all, I figured I had to try it. Making the horchata can get pretty tedious, but the recipe Cheryl provides makes ...