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Home cooking (June 12, 2012) |
Linda Tantillo of Hagerstown is a veteran of Herald-Mail baking contests. Her Apple Cranberry Holiday cookies were featured in our Home Cooking recipe series in December 2010. She is also active in the Hagerstown Lioness Club.
Tantillo said her cooking career started when she was a child.
"I started cooking at 12," she said. "My mother was sick. She had asthm, which always turned to pneumonia. I could cook a whole meal at age 12."
She likes to bake with yeast — coffee cakes, breads, cakes.
Tantillo said she developed this recipe for Grasshopper Cupcakes from a chocolate cake recipe from Taste of Home magazine and a frosting recipe from Andes Creme de Menthe Thins. That's how she likes to bake —using recipes as guidelines.
"Except with yeast recipes," she added. "I don't want to cause a failure."
— Chris Copley, Lifestyle assistant editor
Grasshopper Cupcakes
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 cup cocoa
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup hot coffee
1 cup milk
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
Tantillo said her cooking career started when she was a child.
"I started cooking at 12," she said. "My mother was sick. She had asthm, which always turned to pneumonia. I could cook a whole meal at age 12."
She likes to bake with yeast — coffee cakes, breads, cakes.
Tantillo said she developed this recipe for Grasshopper Cupcakes from a chocolate cake recipe from Taste of Home magazine and a frosting recipe from Andes Creme de Menthe Thins. That's how she likes to bake —using recipes as guidelines.
"Except with yeast recipes," she added. "I don't want to cause a failure."
— Chris Copley, Lifestyle assistant editor
Grasshopper Cupcakes
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 cup cocoa
2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 cup hot coffee
1 cup milk
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
