By Request... A recipe follow-up!

Chocolate Chip Pound Cake (Cupcake Variation)

1/4 lb butter
1/2 lb cream cheese
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 eggs, unbeaten
2 cups sifted flour, less a tbsp.
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla
1 bag chocolate chips (12 oz.) - You could also use miniature chocolate  chips, considering how small the cupcakes are.
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Cream butter and cream cheese. Add remaining ingredients, except chocolate chips. Mix well. Sprinkle chocolate chips with tbsp. of flour and stir into batter. Line mini cupcake tin with cupcake liners (my tin made 24 cupcakes). Note: The batter yields 48 cupcakes (well, more or less, depending on how it is distributed - I made it work for the tin that I owned). Bake 25 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. This time is an approximation; the original recipe called for a 1 hour bake time. Let the cupcakes cool, and enjoy!

I baked... Mini chocolate chip cupcakes!

Adapted from a loaf cake recipe. 

It was a cream cheese pound cake recipe.

Yum!

Kitchen Quirkiness

After going to the Palm for lunch (which was just delicious!) with my cousin and my grandpa, we stopped in the Williams-Sonoma that was in the same hotel building. The kitchenware retailer provided a visual feast of quirky cookware (and edibles!). Here are a few favorites that I spotted yesterday:

Star Wars Heroes and Villains Pancake Molds

Message-in-a-Cookie Cutters

Zoku Quick Pop Character Tool Kit

Fiona's Candy - colorful gummy drops and gumballs

Marvel Heroes Cupcake Decorating Kit

For more information: http://www.williams-sonoma.com/?cm_type=gnav

I baked... Muffins!

Oatmeal Raisin Muffins...I found the recipe in a book of muffin recipes my mom bought in Toronto.

Fresh out of the oven...

...et, voila!