(Photo courtesy J. Pollack Photography)

Growing up in a larger family, you often have to resort to desperate measures to get the specific piece of pizza you have been eyeing since Mom opened the box and told you to wait while she gets the plates.  My favorite tactic was picking up the pieces I wanted, licking them, and setting them back in the box before my sisters even knew my saliva attack had hit them.  Hence, one of my favorite desserts is the cupcake - it's like the personal pan pizza so you don't have to fight for it, and it's made of the only thing existent in the food-iverse better than pizza.  Mmmm.... cake. 

When we asked Stef from of The Cupcake Project to create a ToastedRav cupcake and she actually agreed, I wasn't sure what we were going to get.  This woman knows her culinary-art well though, and created something that surprised us all. 

You can check out our interview with Stef and our traveling cupcake taste test by clicking the ToastedRav Video tab.  Below you can also link to each component of her fantastic recipe for dessert - St. Louis style!

Her Apple Cinnamon Cupcake Recipe was from the book 500 Cupcakes: The Only Cupcake Compendium You'll Ever Need.  She made Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting to top these tasty suckers.  And to show that Toasted Ravioli isn't just the forte of app's and snacks, she filled the baby ToastedRavs on top with apples and honey, dusted them with cinnamon and powdered sugar and plopped them on top.  They look an awful lot like their meaty St. Louis original counterpart, don't they?  We all thought so, too!