Didn't care for the taste of this recipe. It could have been the cumin or the lime combo with the cod... maybe a personal preference.

Reviewed On: Jul. 19, 2010

I'm on the fence on this one. While the cupcake itself tastes fine and just saying bacon in the name of it made most of my male friends excited to eat cupcakes... I wasn't quite impressed with the total outcome. I was expecting a salty/sweet combo, but really didn't get much salty. I followed the recipe exactly. Fried the bacon crispy then crumbled the pieces down very small. Like other comments mentioned, there were a few larger pieces of chewy bacon fat which I added in anyway since I didn't think it would be a big deal. In the finished cupcake, those larger pieces were the only bits of bacon we even tasted. It was just a regular chocolate cupcake to me, dense in texture, chewy but definitely didn't taste like dark chocolate (maybe using a dark chocolate cocoa would be better). AND I bought things like buttermilk which I was only going to use for this recipe and now have to figure out what to do with the rest. Overall the recipe is good, but maybe I play with the amount of bacon to get a better salty/sweet combo.

Reviewed On: Apr. 29, 2010

This was my first time making pasta by hand, and I was surprised at how tasty it came out! I wouldn't necessarily say "easy" but it was simpler than I thought. I did the well-method as instructed but put it in a large mixing bowl. This was much easier and less messy than doing it on the counter. I don't have any fancy kitchen equipment so I did the kneading by hand and rolled the dough out myself. It takes patience and some effort to get the dough rolled thin enough. And in the end, I should have gone thinner because my noodles turned out thicker than expected. I had added some dried basil to the mix, and the end result was some pretty tasty pasta noodles all by itself! I think for the future I will look into a pasta roller, just to speed up the process a bit.

Reviewed On: Aug. 16, 2009