You can’t really celebrate St. Patrick’s Day without the trifecta of Irish booze – Guinness, whiskey, and Baileys. I started making stout cupcakes with whiskey filling and Baileys frosting back in college, and have been making variations on that theme … Continue reading Chocolate Stout Cake with Whiskey Glaze and Baileys Whipped Cream
We’re in the midst of peach season so I obviously got carried away and made these peach cobbler inspired cupcakes when a friend requested something peachy for a birthday dessert. I took rich vanilla cupcakes, filled them with cinnamon and … Continue reading Peach Crumble Cupcakes
Last weekend marked the first official day of Fall and the start of my favorite time of year. I love when the leaves start to change colors and it’s time to break out the sweaters (and, yes, when Starbucks brings … Continue reading Pumpkin Spice Cake with Brown Sugar Frosting
In today’s episode of Ellie Gets Carried Away: this cake. This cake was meant to be a simple vanilla cake with Oreo frosting for one of my coworker’s birthdays, but as I kept daydreaming about it, it slowly morphed into this … Continue reading Cookies and Cream Cake
You can’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day properly without a good amount of Guinness and one of my favorite ways to consume Guinness is in this chocolate stout cake. I have been baking chocolate stout cupcakes for St. Paddy’s Day since I was in college, but this year I decided to change it up a bit and turn my cupcakes into a layer cake. Continue reading “Chocolate Stout Cake”
One of my good friends and coworkers is getting married in less than a week so we decided to throw her a wedding shower at work and I volunteered to make the cake. I’ve made a champagne cake before but … Continue reading Pink Champagne Cake
Fall is hands down my favorite time of the year for desserts and baked goods. Apple cider donuts, pumpkin pie, warm cinnamon rolls, pumpkin spice lattes… That last one technically isn’t a dessert but, let’s be real, it tastes like … Continue reading Pumpkin Cream Cheese Bundt Cake
I admittedly went a little overboard with this birthday cake, but it was so worth it. Birthday cakes should be a little overboard, I think. This beast of a cake includes three layers of chocolate cake, peanut butter frosting, a chocolate … Continue reading Reese’s Peanut Butter Cake
