Recipe: Basic Vanilla Cupcakes by Ricardo Cuisine
The holiday season inspires a lot of people to bake delicious goods… and the elf and I are apparently no different. Today, we tested out a recipe by Ricardo for some cupcakes and below you’ll find out how well we did and what advice we would recommend to yield the best results.

@GirlontheProwl here…Happy New Year!!!…whoops did I miss that train? I’m sorry, guys, I really thought I was going to be on the ball this year, but blips happen and sometimes the hamster in this wheel goes on strike—seriously it can become really hard to motivate a hamster that would really rather hibernate for the winter. But alas, I ring in the new year (albeit almost four weeks later) with none other than a WTF moment that just so happened to rejuvenate this hibernating hamster…yeah, I don’t know why I’m still referring to my brain as a hamster either.
@GirlontheProwl here, and as we all know, there are only three more days left till Christmas! I can’t tell you how excited I am, and it’s not because I’ll be getting gifts—although that’s always fun too—but because I get to see everyone’s reactions to the gifts I got them! In light of me having finished my Christmas shopping, however, I figured there might be some people out there who are still struggling to figure out what to buy their loved ones. So, in true @GirlontheProwl fashion, here is a go-to-guide for last minute Christmas gift shopping.