Adventures in Mika's Kitchen
With the upcoming holidays, I’ve been looking for some simple, but flavorful, dessert recipes to try out for Christmas. I like to stick with ingredients that are in-season if possible – so for winter in Southern California… that means citrus! I love the bright & tart flavors that citrus fruits impart to cakes… the inclusion [...]
This evening, I needed to make a birthday cake for a vegan friend… and I’ve already made her a Chocolate Bundt Cake with Peanut Butter Glaze several times (based on the cake portion of my Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake recipe which doesn’t require dairy or eggs)… thinking it was time to bake something different, I modified [...]
So I guess it’s now autumn and we have to say goodbye to summer (although you wouldn’t know it from today’s 91 degree weather)! With autumn comes some really great things… Pumpkin spice lattes, warm apple pies, spiced cider, Halloween candy… but I would say the fall flavors that I most look forward to are [...]
This is one of my favorite cupcake recipes… white cupcakes with strawberry cream cheese frosting! One of the reason that I like this recipe so much, is that it is very customizable. The white cake is a good base for pretty much any flavor you want to add (vanilla extract, almond extract, lemon extract, pandan [...]
This past weekend, I made cupcakes for my sister-in-law’s baby shower. I wanted to make something really special for them… and when my sister-in-law requested cupcakes, I figured I would try using fondant to make some cute decorations. On pinterest, I saw a cute idea for “baby in a pea pod” cupcakes… and thought [...]
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