thanks for the pic, Sophia 1. Chocolate Pie for Letitia's birthday. Doesn't look like much, but I thought it turned out pretty well. Turns out bourbon and chocolate are a good match. The recipe was from this new cookbook, Baked , that was on a bunch of "Best of 2008" lists. I'm in love with this book. Something like 80% of the recipes involve booze. Do check it out. I'm trying to think of an excuse to make Red Hot Velvet Cake. 2. Carrot cupcakes, for two coworkers' birthdays. Well, at the end of the day, it's still carrot cake. But I grated the carrots really, really fine (shaving most of the skin off my thumb in the process), and I think it's not bad. Cream cheese icing holla . The recipe is from The Pioneer Woman Cooks , except I used butter instead of oil. Seriously, why wouldn't you? Since I was making cupcakes, and thus had more surface area to cover, I doubled the icing recipe. But now I have a bunch of icing left over, and s...