These cookies are for Hope. You know those friends who, even after years of losing track of each other, you fall back into friendship with so easily it’s like coming home? Hope is one of those friends. We hadn’t even seen each other since high school, back when we were both feeling a bit stuck in a rut in tiny Oregon towns, finding our outlet in community theater productions (I think we met on the set of West Side Story, so many years ago) and figuring out who we were. Fast forward nearly ten years and after watching her lay a foundation in actually writing, singing, and producing her own…
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Gluten Free Chocolate Coffee Cupcakes with Coffee Buttercream
For all of you who are staying close to home, for work, for safety, and for social distancing as is our collective responsibility, the days can sometimes stretch into forever as we look out onto quiet streets and wonder when life might inch back towards “normal.” I was feeling this intensely yesterday and really needed something sweet and indulgent to pick me up mid-week and mid-shelter-in-place-slump, so, of course, I turned to baking. Full disclosure – I don’t actually drink coffee (I never have, remarkably), but I LOVE coffee-flavored sweet things. Give me a pint of coffee ice cream or coffee panna cotta or a great coffee flan I had…
