While these aren't the lightest cupcakes you will ever eat, I know you will be happy with the outcome. They are a sturdy, portable treat, so packing them up for a picnic or barbeque works wonderfully. And I'm sure everyone's top two priorities when whipping up a sweet treat are sturdy and portable.

This isn't just any glutenfree dessert, this is Boulder's own Elana Amsterdam's gluten-free dessert. She really has taken it to a whole new level. Her desserts, as well as most of her recipes, are creative, delicious and surprisingly simple..

Oh Spring, you are such a tease. Warm one day, snowing the next. Almost as bad as those pesky hollow bunnies this time of year. You know that feeling: you get your taste buds prepared for a delicious mouth full of chocolate, only to have your teeth clamp together in pain and bits of chocolate buny crumble all over your favorite shirt.

So not only am I providing you with delectable goodies, I also am providing the opportunity for supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to mysteriously fill your soul and have you singing and dancing all the live-long day, I know it worked on me. Of course, it might be the Jagermeister I drank while baking the Gingerbread Star Cookies magical indeed.

Sometimes I just break out into the brownie song. Bet you didn't even know they had their own song. Well, I made it up, but it is spreading like wildfire. I'm sure The Fray will be contacting me any day now just for a chance to record it, or maybe they will just want desserts.

Oh Boulder, how I love you, but this week I'm in Malibu, and I must say … a person could get used to this. I'm here for a little bit of Dessert Diva work and a whole lot of Dessert Diva play — they tend to be one and the same most days of the week, and I'll take it.

Oh March, it seems like forever since we last rendezvoused. I know you are reliably snowy, but you bring me spring, and so I, in turn, dedicate this dessert to you: Blueberry Sweet Cake.

Maybe it has something to do with longing for summer (OK, I’ll take spring at this point), but I always find myself rocking the strawberry recipes in February. I guess due to Valentine’s Day, strawberries are in abundance at most grocery stores.

Is it wrong to use words like yummy, yummers, nummers and the oh-so-widely-used phrase “yummers in the tummers”? I know this question is probably one posed to you on a daily basis, but I thought one more time wouldn’t kill ya. What do you use to express your innermost dessert desires? I seem to fall back on the “Mmm, it melts in your mouth” phrase.

I promise this won’t be a Valentine’s Day column full of lovey-dovey shizz. Of course, I personally don’t mind much, but everywhere I look there are anti-Valentine’s Day dinners, parties, happy hours, etc. It makes me laugh. I don’t know why, it just gets me every time.