Yummy Food

You know how there are some recipes that everyone needs to know? Like how to make the best ever cheese on toast, how to cook the perfect steak, how to bake a potato and how to make a soft-boiled egg? Well these easy vanilla cupcakes are made with this sort of recipe. When you can make moist vanilla cupcakes, the sky is the limit. They’re just so versatile that you can take this basic recipe and turn it into anything you want! In fact, when I developed this recipe, these cupcakes were for the base of some awesome tiramisu cupcakes that I’m planning on sharing with you really soon, so make sure you stuck around for that. Sure, you can make cupcakes out of a box. But when vanilla cupcakes from scratch are so easy to make and taste so amazing, what’s the point? I don’t know what it’s like where you live, but box mixes are really expensive around here! A box mix that makes 12 cupcakes goes for €5/$5.50 in the supermarkets where I live. Okay, that’s not a ridiculous sum of money, bu...

I hate throwing away leftover ingredients, therefore sometimes, like today, a baking day starts with scouting the fridge and my magic cupboard (aka the place where I keep all the ingredients that aren’t at risk of going stall if not kept at a certain temperature) and coming up with a recipe to use all those ingredients. And today is was the turn of cream cheese – I bought a bucket of silky cream cheese a few days ago and after making a Romanian cheese pie, I was left with about 1 pound of cream cheese that was going to sit in the fridge for days if I wasn’t going to use it. But boy, I’m happy things happened this way because I got to make and taste these cheesecake bars which might be one of the best cream cheese desserts I ever made and tasted! These raspberry cheesecake bars are incredibly easy to make, you don’t need to be a professional to master a perfectly juicy, fragrant, soft cheesecake bar and there’s nothing you can’t pair them with. I used raspberries this time, but ch...