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Yummy Link: Magnolia Bakery Shut Down by the Dept. of Health

YumSugar — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:33:25 -0700

In a story that's still developing, the Department of Health has shut down the famous Magnolia Bakery. Apparently it's a lack of sinks - and not rats - that has caused the shut down. Guess you'll just have to make Magnolia cupcakes at home until it reopens.

Update: Magnolia has issued an official statement stating that they've operated for 10 years without this sink.

Update 2: The Department of Health has allowed Magnolia to reopen now that they've installed a new sink.
- Eater

Edible Groundhogs

partysugar — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:28:11 -0800

Today, in case you forgot, is Groundhog Day. If you have young kids explain the concept to them and make these cute little cupcakes together. It can be like a Friday afternoon treat. Start with your favorite cupcake recipe, (or use Magnolia Bakery Vanilla Cupcakes) stick a chocolate candy bar (my suggestion: a mini twix) up right in the baked and cooled cupcake. Spread your favorite frosting to hold the candy in place. To make the groundhog's eyes and tooth, cut a tiny piece of white jelly bean and glue into place with frosting. Dot with black decorators gel or melted chocolate. Cut a triangle noise from a watermelon shaped sour candy and use mini brown M&M's for adorable itsy-bitsy edible ears and cheeks. Sprinkle chocolate cookie crumb "dirt" around the groundhog. Don't forget to take a picture of your groundhog cupcakes and post in the Savory Sights group on TeamSugar to share your delightful dessert with us all.
Enjoy and Happy Groundhog Day!

Source: Family Fun

Teri Hatcher Goes on a Cupcake Outing

YumSugar — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:25:38 -0800

Earlier this month Teri Hatcher and her lovely daughter Emerson found a few minutes to enjoy tasty, tasty cupcakes from the world famous Magnolia Bakery in New York. Since most of us just can't pop down to Magnolia whenever we feel like, I've decided to treat you with the official recipe for Magnolia Bakery Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream. To check out the recipe and see more pics of Teri and her daughter, read more

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Magnolia Bakery Vanilla Cupcakes
More From Magnolia: Recipes from the World Famous Bakery and Allysa Torey's Home Kitchen

1 1/2 cups self-rising flour
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs, at room temperature
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Magnolia Bakery Vanilla Buttercream

Preheat oven to 350°. Line two 12-cup muffin tins with paper liners; set aside. In a small bowl, combine flours; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter until smooth and creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add dry ingredients in 3 parts, alternating with the milk and vanilla, and scraping down sides of bowl in between each addition; beat until ingredients are incorporated but do not overbeat.
Divide batter evenly among liners, filling about three-quarters full. Bake, rotating pan halfway through, until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
Transfer to a wire rack to cool in tins for 15 minutes. Remove cupcakes from tins, and cool completely on rack. Once cupcakes have cooled, use a small offset spatula to frost tops of each cupcake. Serve at room temperature.

Makes about 2 dozen cupcakes.

Image from About.com.

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Yummy Links: From Animal Crackers to the Gourmet Next Door

partysugar — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:00:02 -0700

Williams-Sonoma recently released circus cookie cutters and Erin made the most adorable cookies. - Erin Cooks
Nobody likes a uni-task kitchen gadget so learn how to use your common appliances in uncommon ways. - Chow
Move over Magnolia: these cupcakes are giving the original cupcake bakery a run for its money. - Grub Street
Speaking of cupcakes, one of the pioneers in the cupcake blog world, Cheryl of the Cupcake Bakeshop, is closing shop. - Slashfood
Once you know the technique for making a salad you can create delicious variations without a recipe. - The Kitchn
Meet SoGreen frozen yogurt, San Francisco's answer to Pinkberry. - FitSugar
Many of you are wondering what happened to Amy Finley, winner of last year's The Next Food Network Star. Wonder no more: she's left the network and moved to France! - Food Network Addict
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What's Yummy This Week: YumSugar Weekly Recap

YumSugar — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:33:28 -0700

This week the warm weather got to us and we decided to plan a pool party.
The new Harry Potter film opened, so we geeked out and came up with a list of our top 10 Harry Potter related recipes. There are some good ones in there, including hot and cold butterbeer.
This week's ice cream sandwich is a lovely ginger snap with peach ice cream. I'm sad I didn't get to taste it.

Speaking of ice cream, we started our For the Love of Ice Cream challenge. Blog about your favorite ice cream!
We gave a YumSugar T-shirt to crispet1. Jealous? Well, it could be you next time!
Going to a dinner party? Here's a list of hostess gifts you could bring.
In the food reality tv world, Next Food Network Star is down to 3, Top Chef is down to a manageable amount of contestants and the ladies in Hell's Kitchen are finally working together.

There's an awful lot of food jewelry out there. I've pulled together an A-Z food jewelry primer - some of it's absolutely smashing!
Three Musketeers now has a Dark Chocolate Mint flavor.
Do you mix your food on your plate?
The Department of Health closed the famous Magnolia Bakery only to open it up again the next day.
Did you know there were so many different flavors of Pocky?!

Nothing tastes better on Sunday morning than a nice stack of pancakes, except maybe a homemade orange blossom pound cake or a lovely peach crumble.
Finally, don't miss out on this list of 13 freaky foods for Friday the 13th.