Chocolate Whiskey Cupcakes

These chocolate whiskey cupcakes are both intensely chocolatey and boozy, with a hint of coffee to enhance the deep chocolate flavor. 

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You have got to try these super moist and super chocolatey cupcakes. I've frosted them with a chocolate, coffee, and whiskey ganache, but you can frost them with a fluffy vanilla buttercream if you prefer. 

Mandarin Orange and Rhubarb Mini Loaves

These Mandarin Orange and Rhubarb Mini Loaves are perfect to make when rhubarb begins showing up in grocery stores and farmers markets. 

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These little rhubarb and orange breads are super easy to make and take advantage of the rhubarb bounty available in the spring. 

Spicy Carrot and Broccoli Salad

This spicy carrot salad with broccoli is dressed with ingredients with Asian flavors and spiced up with jalapeño and Fresno chiles. 

 


For this carrot salad, I combined some multi-colored organic carrots along with some pre-shredded broccoli and sliced jalapeño and Fresno chiles.

Jam Cake with Caramel Frosting

This jam cake with caramel frosting is pretty incredible. The caramel frosting is a revelation. Imagine a spice cake filled with blackberry jam and topped with a fluffy caramel candy frosting. 

This cake batter includes allspice, cloves, and cinnamon.. and 1/2 cup of blackberry jam! It's such a unique combination of ingredients. 

Minestrone Napoletana

This minestrone Napoletana is loaded with lots of spring and summer vegetables. Plus, it's so delicious and it makes it easy to get a day's worth of veggies in one bowl. You will feel so virtuous! 

Minestrone includes fresh vegetables, along with some legumes and either pasta, rice, or both. Plus, there is usually some pancetta, olive oil, or lardons. 

Shrimp in Tomato and Chile Sauce

This shrimp in tomato and chile sauce is an orchestra of deeply delicious flavors.  

This spicy shrimp dish is loaded with concentrated flavors of tomatoes that have been cooked down to their tomato-y essence, along with green chilies, garlic, coriander, cumin chile powder, allspice, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, mace, and nutmeg. 

Sourdough Green Tea and Candied Kumquat Bread

This green tea bread is made with matcha tea powder and candied kumquats. It's such an unusual and delicious combination of flavors. 

With St. Patrick's Day coming up, it's pretty much time for green and orange bread, right? Fortunately, one of he Bread Baking Babes members, Cathy of Bread Experience introduced us to this Green Tea and Orange Bread by Eric Kayser in the book, The Larousse Book of Bread.