I’m going to cheat a bit this week. Instead of posting my own leftovers, here’s a picture of my wife’s baking exploits last month. Occasionally, we get in the mood for something like these homemade cupcakes and in these cases I have to look to her to provide the expertise since I’m really no baker. I know you are saying I’m lucky and it’s very true.

I believe that these were loosely based on a Cook’s Illustrated recipe. So do they qualify as Cheap Eats? Probably, even though you can buy easily buy fresh cupcakes in the prepared food sections of supermarkets for fairly cheap. Nothing beats homemade, though.

Apparently, it is mucho important to use “Cake Flour” instead of regular flour in order to get the correct texture which is pretty delicate. The icing was actually supposed to be Coffee Buttercream but there was no instant coffee so some leftover Chocolate Hazelnut hot cocoa mix from Ghirardelli’s was pressed into service. Delicious!

And yes, I did eat some as leftovers - for breakfast the next day.