Cake
7 Things I Wish I’d Known When I first Started Baking and Decorating Cake
This post may contain affiliate links which help keep me in flour and sugar. Thank you for your support. Baking and decorating cake is one of my favorite creative outlets. Â...
Angel Food Cake
Light and fluffy angel food cake is the perfect summer dessert especially when topped with sweet strawberries and a dollop of whipped cream! Angel food cake is absolutely, hands...
Applesauce Cake
Fall is in the air! The days are getting shorter, the nights crisp, the trees turning fiery. I have slow down for farm equipment and the field across the street is now empty,...
August Daring Bakers: Baked Alaska
Another ice cream challenge to go wonderfully with the sweltering heat of August. I have been wanting to make Baked Alaska for a long time and now the Daring Bakers have given...
Baby Shower
Final shower cake Its a strange feeling for me that my little sister is going to be a mama in a few short weeks. I am pretty excited to meet the little guy though. Now every t...
Basket Cake
This is the cake from my Wilton Cakes II class. This class was interesting because we learned how to make royal icing flowers. I had never really worked with royal icing before,...
Beginner Level Stars and Stripes Cake
Easy, beginner level decorated cake perfect for the fourth of July. Using only a star tip and some cookie cutters, you can make this adorable patriotic cake. Special Equipment N...
Berry Cake
I have baked this berry cake several times in the past couple of years and I never posted it, because the very best photo I ever took of it is the one your looking at, quickly s...
Birthday Cake Bow
Fun with fondant bow. I learned that kneading a bit of gum tex into the fondant makes it dry really stiff and the bow will stand up. I also played around with...
Birthday Cake for Foster (Farm Birthday Cake)
I was lucky to be able to make my little cousin Foster’s first birthday cake. The theme of his party was farm animals, so I made a chocolate barn cake with a vanilla cake yard...
Cake Truffles
Cake truffles are the tiny, highly customizable treat perfect for your next party. White chocolate coats a cake and buttercream filled bite sized sweet! For Father’s day this pa...
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting and Chèvre Caramel Sauce Drip
Moist, from-scratch spiced carrot cake iced with tangy cream cheese frosting flecked with vanilla beans and topped with a chèvre caramel sauce drip. Carrot cake has always been...
Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake with German Chocolate Frosting
Dense, chocolaty, made-from-scratch mayonnaise cake with chocolate buttercream and German chocolate frosting. An indulgent celebration cake for sure! For as long as I can remem...
Drywall dust
When I was a kid, my family remodeled the house. Completely gutted and redid everything. Of all the cleanup involved in gutting a house, the one thing that my mother always ...
Easter Roundup
Here are some past tasty desserts to make your Easter a bit sweeter: Nutter Butter Chicks Chocolate Dipped Oreos Sugar Cookies Angel Food Cake, perhaps with some strawberries...