cupcakes

This was my second attempt at a recipe from the dessert section of the Chatelaine cookbook. I had high hopes it would be more successful than my Best-ever brownies blunder. But I already had a hand up: I was in the kitchen of an avid baker who not only had all the ingredients on hand but also had an eager 5-year-old wanting to do all the messy mixing for me. We were set.

Hot food trends for 2011; Canadians think they’re healthier than they are; Taylor Swift doesn’t sell magazines; 100,000 dead fish in Arkansas; and British actor Pete Postlethwaite has died.

Yesterday was a blah day for me. Sporadic rain never puts me in a yippee mood and I also woke with a head rattling headache.

Look no further than your kitchen to warm things up on a cold night

Five decadent dishes from her new cookbook, Nigella Christmas