This past Friday was my father’s birthday and we traveled home to visit so I obviously made a cake. He has two favorites – German Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Cake with Aunt Ninny’s White Icing. Aunt Ninny’s White Icing is my great aunt’s white icing and it is A-MAZ-ING. But I decided to try out a […]
Watch out… those crazy scrapbooking moms are going to become cake decorators over night.ProvoCraft has released a Cricut Cake™ Personal Electronic Cutter that makes cake decorating a cinch. I’ve never used a Cricut, so I’m not really in the loop. At first, I was disappointed. There’s something to be said for cake decorators that can […]
It’s a good thing that I filter all of my comments before I post them… because 70% of them are spam. I get all kinds of spam from learning how to play the violin, taking plastering courses, moving services, Louisiana insurance, and free green tea. But this one is by far my favorite. No sorry.. I’m […]
For a girly get together this weekend, I made some vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, in cheetah and zebra cupcake papers with a hot pink fondant flower! I also made some lovely lavender sugar cookies. This time, I changed my sugar cookie recipe a tad. Instead of vanilla extract, I substituted a whole vanilla […]
The one thing that I remember most about ordering my birthday cakes at Farm Fresh when I was little was the emphasis my mom put on “buttercream frosting.” What she really meant was “don’t use that whipped crap!” (Pardon my french). If you’ve ever ordered a cake from your local grocery store bakery, you know […]
Last Tuesday was Ben and Jerry’s free ice cream cone day so I went over to Pitango and got some gelato (since they probably weren’t getting any customers…). I always get chocolate hazelnut and bourbon vanilla. While I was waiting for the nice gelato lady to do some fancy swirl thing on the top of […]
It seems that adding bacon to your standard confection is pretty popular right now. Chocolate covered bacon, bacon dessert bars, cupcakes with bacon crumbles – you name it, it is probably been made. I assume people like these combos for the same reason I like nuts on my hot fudge sundae – the saltiness and […]