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Coffee Cupcakes with Coffee- Chocolate Buttercream!

"A girl and her bed on Sunday is an endless love affair." This past Sunday I took a time- out from my "love affair," and managed to get myself out of my bed on what was a perfect lazy Sunday afternoon. I recently bought a new cook book of deluxe cupcake recipes from the famous Primrose Bakery in London. Usually I feel like weekends are always jam-packed with activities, so this event-free Sunday seemed like the perfect day to finally try out one of the recipes. I haven't baked gourmet cupcakes in a while so I was excited to get back in the kitchen! I really like this cook book because it is full of gourmet cupcakes in a variety of different fancy flavors, but the recipes are kept simple and easy! The photography in it alone, makes you salivate. I decided to make coffee cupcakes, with dark chocolate- coffee buttercream frosting. I followed the cupcake recipe from the book, except I just made up my own frosting recipe. I found a giant block of bittersweet choco...

Rainy Day Chocolate Kiss Cookies!

Rainy cold weather never fails to give me the "baking bug!" I'm a Pinterest fanatic, I'm always pinning new recipes to try on rainy stay-at-home days like today! I hit a sale on Christmas candy yesterday at CVS, and they had bags of Hershey kisses for $.99! What's the difference after you peel off the red and green wrappers? LOL. I found this recipe on www.annies-eats.com but just substituted Hershey kisses instead of the chocolate chips! They're great to share with a good friend and a cup of hot chocolate to escape the cold weather and get your chocolate fix! See the recipe for these double chocolate kiss cookies below: