Chocolate Cupcakes With Nutella Cream Cheese Frosting!

Last week, we celebrated the birthday of a close family friend. Every year I ask her to tell me what she would like for her birthday dessert and this year she just said, CHOCOLATE! After asking a few more questions to establish preference of frosting, I knew it was time to incorporate Nutella somewhere into my standard chocolate cupcake.

The result was beautiful - the frosting is perfectly chocolatey but not sickly sweet, and the cake came out moist and rich.

Frosting recipe can be found here!

Strawberry Shortcake Parfaits!

I love making layered desserts that can be served in any type of glass whether it's a water glass, wine glass, or funky serving dish. They are easy to make, look beautiful, and taste great!

Strawberry shortcake parfaits are my go-to dessert because they are so simple. I'll buy a box of strawberries, heavy whipping cream, and a pound cake. After whipping the cream with some sugar and slicing the strawberries and cake, I begin the layering.

In this instance, I used graham crackers, pureed with butter and sugar as the dense base instead of sliced pound cake. Delicious!

Pancakes & Waffles!

I've been on a pancake kick lately. Since I've been home more, I've taken to making my squishy breakfast after he rides his bicycle on his mornings off.

First ... blueberry pancakes!

Next ... banana walnut buttermilk pancakes!

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