Tasty Tangents

So there was a big bowl of leftover chocolate icing in the fridge from a cake my sister made that was just screaming out to be used.
I decided I needed to find something cupcake-like to go with the yummy frosting, and after rifling through about half a dozen cookbooks, I struck on this super simple [...]

In my eternal hunt to find ways to finish orphan ingredients, I set out on a quest to find a way to use almost a full can of pumpkin puree. (It was left over from Thanksgiving’s pumpkin brownies.) I was hoping for something not dessert related, which is also a remnant of the Thanksgiving/Halloween aftermath.
I [...]