Makes 1 dozen Stacy grew up loving carrot cake. Every birthday she’d ask for the same thing: her mom’s (whom we call Gigi) carrot cake. What made it so amazingly delicious was the added crushed pineapple, which sweetened the cake and gave it great texture. As a...

Ices 12 cupcakes This icing is fun and quick to make, and it’s really cool looking the way the sugar and icing swirl together. It’d be great on almost anything, but we recommend trying it with our Apple Pie Cupcakes and ZuCakes ! INGREDIENTS • 1 C unrefined granulated...

Makes 12 cupcakes One of our favorite things to do on a rainy day is to watch food shows on TV. We especially love DC Cupcakes because that bakery is near to where we live! They punch a hole in the middle of their cupcakes and fill it with a delicious filling. What a...

Ices 12 cupcakes To make a chocolate sandwich, place this thick and fudgy frosting between two Chocolate Chip Cookies . If you want a quadruple chocolate cupcake (that means four different kinds of chocolate), place this frosting on top of our Lava Fudge Cupcakes and...

Makes 18 cupcakes Lava is a super-hot substance that gurgles beneath the surface of Earth and sometimes erupts out of volcanoes. Lava can be anywhere from 1,300 to 2,200 degrees. It is made of rocks, dirt, and ash that are so hot they’ve melted together and become a...

Makes 36 cake balls German chocolate cake is flavored with nuts, caramel, coconut, and chocolate. It seemed a perfect choice, since that’s all our favorite ingredients, to make our very first cake ball. If you’ve never had a cake ball before, they’re awfully fun—like...

Makes 24 cake balls We used to look forward to the Girl Scouts coming to our house so that we could purchase boxes of their Samoa cookies. This year when the young ladies came a-knockin’, we (somewhat sadly) politely declined. The boys got to asking why they didn’t...

Makes 1 pie crust We’ve tried lots of different ways to make pie crusts and never found one to our liking. Some were too sweet, some were too flaky, some were even too difficult to make. One morning, Stacy woke up early and headed to the kitchen, determined to solve...

Serves 8–10 The first time we made coconut cream pie, we had a serious accident! We forgot to let the pie chill in the fridge, so when we tried to move it, it spilled everywhere! We made it again in hopes that it was tasty after all. Luckily, it’s delicious and sets...

Makes 1 cup of whipped coconut cream We love to put berries and coconut cream on our Sunday morning Frozen Waffles, but they’re also a delicious treat all by themselves. If you like to get the can of whipped cream from the fridge and spray it on your dessert, this is...