"frosting" news and stories

Leftover frosting? Roll it into quick truffles.

Frosting Shots. Photo: YumSugar

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

Calling all frosting lovers: Sprinkles now offers shots of sugary frosting without all that cake to get in the way.

Michael Symon shares handy tips on everything from whole spices to olive oil.

White Bean Puree makes a quick and fabulous party dip.

Why does pepper make us sneeze? Because of a little thing called piperine.

When meat is out of the question, Black Bean Burgers made on the barbecue offer a tasty alternative.

YumSugar savors seafood with a recipe for Spicy Tuna Poke with Guacamole.

Wine professional Josh Wesson offers food and wine pairing tips.

Do you call to cancel restaurant reservations?

I might be a frosting lover. I might have been the girl who ate frosting out of tupperware for breakfast in high school. But still, sometimes less is more.

The above is a cupcake made by my baking fiend of a friend Monica, who resides over at Nervous Chef and Mis-Adventures in Knitting. She's a crazy gal who isn't a huge fan of frosting, and that led to some more carefully frosted cupcakes recently, like the one above. I'm so used to seeing towering, frosted mountains of cupcakes, so it's nice to get a glimpse of one that takes on a minimalist approach. There's just something about a scattered collection of distinct dots that's charming.

If this picture is making your mouth salivate as well, you can check out the post on the cupcakes here.

When I first saw what were called "meatloaf cupcakes," I thought, "How cute - tiny rounds of meatloaf with a dollop of mashed potatoes on top." They were only called cupcakes, though, because they were small and topped with something.

However, Fine Furious Life has made meatloaf cupcakes that really, well, take the cake. The meatloaves really do look like cupcakes (they'd only be slightly better if they were in paper wrappers), and the most impressive part is the mashed potato frosting that really does look like frosting because 1) it's piped into swirls, and 2) there are two colors!

I am amazed.

And who knew that so many other cooks could make an everyday meatloaf look so adorably delicious?

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You're baking cupcakes for a special event, but lacking in the "fancy baking tools" department. Never fear -- you can frost stellar-looking cupcakes with nothing more than a knife.