How Sweet It Is

Growing up, my mom always made marble cake.
I barely remember her making it, but I do remember eating it.

I really remember eating it when I look back at my chubby elementary school pictures. Especially the one where I wore a purple silk top under a paisley purple vest. Yes, I think vests were cool then, [...]

 
These cupcakes are a spin off of the popular cookies and cream cupcakes, which I am still having dreams about.
Dreams so vivid, that I can taste them in my sleep.
Or . . . maybe that is just the cookies I was eating in bed.
Kidding! (Sort of.)
 
These cupcakes are dreamy, too.

I used the good ole’ recipe [...]

Cake is not my favorite treat, which is one reason I like cupcakes so much. I feel they are the perfect portion size, and sometimes I cannot even finish a full one.
That is sooo not the case with these cupcakes.
These are dreamy. And creamy.

Check out the batter – it looks like cookies and cream ice [...]

Mother Lovett was famous for her coconut cream pie. I was famous for eating it.
Since I have barely mastered her pie crust recipe, I have yet to make a coconut cream pie.
In that case, I made the next best thing – coconut cream cupcakes!

I love coconut. I will happily eat it in anything.

My husband on the [...]

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Mother Lovett made a lot of cakes. In fact, if you haven’t read her entire story yet, you wouldn’t know that she had a heart attack while hand-mixing cake batter. It began her demise, but once in the hospital, she was simply concerned with how dirty her kitchen still was.

I [...]