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Category Archives: confections

Collection of posts about all things confectionary

new website coming soon

  The Kara’s Cakery website should be updated very VERY soon. It’s taking a little longer than I hoped, but there will be lots of new info and much better pictures!

useful tip tuesday: the perfect sugar cookies

My mom always hated making sugar cookies because they stuck to the table when you rolled them out and the ends always turned brown. Well – here are a few tips for making the perfect sugar cookies! 1) First of all – be patient. If the dough needs to be refrigerated, do it. This will allow […]

happy st. patty’s day

What would St. Patrick’s Day be without something green? Good thing I made cookies!

bacon on your cupcakes?

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 […]

spring is here and a new gadget!!!!

I made a birthday cake last week with lots of spring flowers and colors, as per request. I hope this means that spring is getting here SOON. Here is a picture and that leads me to my exciting new gadget news… This will be the last ugly, poor quality picture on my blog! Woohoo!! No […]

have your cake and eat it… soon?

One of the most important parts of having a cake business is time management. When planning, I try to figure out the best schedule to bake and decorate the dessert so that it makes it to the customer within hours of completion. Why? For the simple fact that homemade/bakery sweets HAVE NO PRESERVATIVES.. or at least mine […]

gluten free baking

Upon being asked to make gluten free cookies, I set out to find the perfect gluten free flour substitute. Gluten is found in wheat, rye and barley and therefore, in flour – one of the most important ingredients in baked goods (hey at least is has nothing to do with the sugar…). Flour acts as […]

fiesta, fiesta

I’ve been excited to blog about this project for awhile!! I had the honor of providing the desserts for Chuck’s farewell party (a dear co-worker) at the office.  My task was to create a red chili pepper shaped cake, a cactus shaped cake and some sombrero cookies! While any confectionery task for over 80 people is quite […]

PW wednesday: bio of the week – liz & andy

I’ve always thought a wedding with a peacock theme would be original, but most of the pictures I see from those themed weddings are either tacky, or too overdone. Project Wedding featured a spotlight on Liz and Andy’s Peacock and Damask wedding. Interesting combination, but it worked! My favorite part is the cake. While I am […]

PW wednesday: real wedding – amy and charlie

With the chaos of being snowed-in last week and having to go to work since I work for a financial office that services 12 sister banks that need their money whether there’s no snow or three feet of snow, I didn’t get a lot of time to blog last week. So hopefully this will make […]