http://sweetmeup.com baking blog, desserts Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:12:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Lately, I've been reminiscing about Passion Flakies... and lasagna. Don't ask. So naturally, I tried to recreate a Passion Flakie but in the form of a lasagna. Here's how my shenanigans went down: Thaw two sheets of puff pastry and roll it out. With a pastry cutter, cut strips out of ... http://sweetmeup.com/2008/12/02/pastry-lasagna/ "I've been baking for some time now and you know what I've never baked?" "Uh, a big cupcake?" "A big, honking cupcake!" http://sweetmeup.com/2008/11/29/large-and-in-charge/ You're my Honeybunch, Sugarplum Pumpy-umpy-umpkin, You're my Sweetie Pie You're my Cuppycake, Gumdrop Snoogums-Boogums, You're the Apple of my Eye And I love you so and I want you to know That I'll always be right here And I love to sing sweet songs to you Because you are so dear! http://sweetmeup.com/2008/11/28/cuppy-cake-old-skool/ http://sweetmeup.com/2008/11/26/music-to-bake-to/  Potato Chip Cookies (Makes 50 cookies)Ingredient: 1 cup butter; softened ½ cup sugar 1 egg 1 ½ cup flour 1 tsp. vanilla 1 cup potato chips; crushed Heat oven to 350°F. Cream butter, sugar and egg. Add flour, vanilla and potato chips. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto a parchment lined cookie sheet and press lightly with a fork. Bake for ... http://sweetmeup.com/2008/11/24/junk-food-cookies/ Through no fault of my own, the Internet seemed to have found me. Actually, that's not true: I spend most of my time on the Internet; it really doesn't take a lot of effort to find me. Anyway, word got around via Twitter that Cupcake Camp (which originated in San ... http://sweetmeup.com/2008/11/20/blogtod/ As my second baking pet peeve (a part from my lack of blogging), I hate when frosting warms in your hand as you're piping and thus losing its pipeable consistency. I was using the leaf tip once and after a few minutes, it started looking like a random blobby strip ... http://sweetmeup.com/2008/11/19/baking-pet-peeve-2-warmed-frosting/ A month ago, I did my first engagement party where the theme was fashion! Also, my apologies for not updating for a while.     http://sweetmeup.com/2008/11/19/omg-purses-dresses-and-shoes/ For some odd reason, I never consider my icing sugar inventory when I start a baking project. I just assume my cupboard has an infinite supply of icing sugar. So nothing grinds my gears more than it being way past midnight (me thinking that's an ideal time to start the ... http://sweetmeup.com/2008/09/16/baking-pet-peeve-1-running-out-of-icing-sugar/ Chocolate cake with meringue frosting. And who doesn't know who this is? http://sweetmeup.com/2008/09/05/stay-puft-marshmallow-man-cake/