Dowser 6: The Cupcakes

FYI

The following cupcakes either appear, or are mentioned, in Dowser 6 – just in case you want to bake along. 🙂 I’ve linked the names to the recipe (if I’ve published it). I will slowly work away at getting more of the recipes published.

Lift in a Cup – white cake with coffee buttercream

Hug in a Cup – dark chocolate cake with buttercream

Delight in a Cup – white cake with lemon buttercream

Lust in a Cup – dark chocolate cake with dark chocolate cream cheese icing

Buzz in a Cup – mocha cake with mocha buttercream

Thrill in a Cup – white cake with mocha buttercream

Rapture in a Cup – chocolate and lemon cake topped with chocolate-cream-cheese frosting

Vixen in a Cup – salted-caramel-frosted chocolate-gingerbread cake

Serenity in a Cup – carrot cake with cream cheese icing (this is Solace in a Cup without the additional chocolate)

– DOWSER 6 PREORDER NOW AVAILABLE –

Release date: May 5, 2016

Preorders currently available on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

Dowser 6: Hug in a Cup

Download the PDF recipe here: Hug in a Cup PDF

– DOWSER 6 PREORDER NOW AVAILABLE –

Release date: May 5, 2016

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Dowser 6: Delight in a Cup

“I’ll bake a batch just for her. I’m pretty sure her favorite is Delight in a Cup.”

“Lemon buttercream?” Warner smacked his lips, sleepily appreciative.

I laughed quietly. “And white cake.”

“Fluffy … sweet … moist cake.” Warner grunted his approval. – Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic (Dowser 6)

Download the PDF recipe here: Delight in a Cup PDF

– DOWSER 6 PREORDER NOW AVAILABLE –

Release date: May 5, 2016

Preorders currently available on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

Dowser 6: Lift in a Cup

Usually, business in the bakery was quiet through the end of December and into the new year, with just a slight bump around New Year’s Eve. But it was three weeks into January already, and I’d had to bake extra Hug in a Cup — a buttercream-topped dark-chocolate cake — and Lift in a Cup — a delicate white cake with coffee buttercream — when we’d sold out an hour after opening. – Artifacts, Dragons, and Other Lethal Magic (Dowser 6)

Download recipe here as a PDF: LIFT IN A CUP PDF

I’ll be posting a master list of all the recipes appearing in Dowser 6 this week. And yes, including the Hug in a Cup mentioned in the excerpt above.

Thank you to my test bakers and my proofreaders!!

– DOWSER 6 PREORDER NOW AVAILABLE –

Release date: May 5, 2016

Preorders currently available on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords.

Dowser 5: cupcakes

I’ve had a few requests to post a list of the cupcakes eaten or mentioned in the Dowser books with each new release. So, I thought I would dash off this blog post just in case anyone wanted to bake before – or while – they’re reading Dowser 5 (release date: July 23, 2015).

New Creations (recipes to come):

Vixen in a Cup – chocolate gingerbread cake with a salted caramel icing.

Blitzen in a Cup – a rich but airy chocolate cake that was heavy on the mocha and iced with eggnog buttercream.

Joy in a Cup – a simple buttercream-frosted lemon cake (Recipe will be posted – along with a giveaway – on the Reading Cafe on August 7, 2015).

Old favourites:

Charm in a Cup – lemon cake with strawberry buttercream

Love in a Cup – chocolate cake with strawberry buttercream

Buzz in a Cup – mocha fudge cupcake with mocha buttercream icing

Other recipes can be found here.

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The Dowser 5 ebook will be available THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015 on Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, B&N, and Smashwords. The paperback will follow about two weeks later. The preorders are now available.

To help celebrate there will be two large giveaways. One the week before (July 15 – 18) and one the week of the release (July 20 – 23).

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Charm in a Cup

Here is Charm in a Cup from Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1) and Maps, Artifacts, and Other Arcane Magic (Dowser 5).

This is a super dense, but moist, sponge cake. The cake is also the base for Sunshine in a Cup and Joy in a Cup. The frosting is also the icing for Love in a Cup.

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The Dowser 5 ebook will be available THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015 on Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, B&N, and Smashwords. The paperback will follow about two weeks later. The preorders are now available.

To help celebrate there will be two large giveaways. One the week before (July 15 – 18) and one the week of the release (July 20 – 23).

Don’t want to miss the release day? Please make sure you are signed up for my mailing list.

Don’t want to miss the giveaways? Please subscribe to my blog via the link second from the top on the righthand side of this page.

Love in a Cup

So this is one of those recipes I swear I’ve posted before, but now I can’t seem to find it.

Love in a Cup from Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic (Dowser 1) as well as Maps, Artifacts, and Other Arcane Magic (Dowser 5).

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The Dowser 5 ebook will be available THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015 on Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, B&N, and Smashwords. The paperback will follow about two weeks later. The preorders are now available.

To help celebrate there will be two large giveaways. One the week before (July 15 – 18) and one the week of the release (July 20 – 23).

Don’t want to miss the release day? Please make sure you are signed up for my mailing list.

Don’t want to miss the giveaways? Please subscribe to my blog via the link second from the top on the righthand side of this page.

Dowser 5: Buzz in a Cup

Updated recipe: April 18, 2016

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Original Post:

I did a poll to ask readers of the Dowser Series what cupcake Drake should eat in Maps, Artifacts, and Other Arcane Magic (Dowser 5).

Buzz in a Cup won.

ETA: as a noncoffee drinker I found these very strong, as a regular coffee drinker (who drinks his coffee black) Michael found these tasty, but not overly strong.

Without further ado here is the recipe:

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The Dowser 5 ebook will be available THURSDAY, JULY 23, 2015 on Amazon, Kobo, iTunes, B&N, and Smashwords. The paperback will follow about two weeks later. The preorders should start going live around July 9 or 10th.

To help celebrate there will be two large giveaways. One the week before (July 15 – 18) and one the week of the release (July 20 – 23).

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Ecstasy in a Cup

I’m planning on posting a contest tomorrow to win a signed, misprinted set of Dowser 1-4 and Oracle 1 paperbacks. The entry will be a picture of any of the cupcakes that appear in any of the Dowser books, baked either from the recipes here on the blog or one you’ve figured out on your own. And yes, pre-mixes are acceptable for those who don’t have the time or the inclination to bake from scratch.

Anyway, I thought I should get Ecstasy in a Cup up on the blog so there was one more recipe option. Note, if you do choose to bake the Ecstasy’s you might also want to enter into the contest running over on IndieVisible that closes on June 12, 2015.

Dowser 4 – Tease in a Cup

Presenting Tease in a Cup, Kandy’s second birthday cupcake, from Shadows, Maps, and Other Ancient Magic (Dowser 4). These blackberry chocolate cupcakes share the same base with Sass in a Cup but they’re iced with blackberry buttercream! The touch of lemon in the buttercream is definitely the secret ingredient. So tasty!