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...
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...
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 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...
Fish Cake
To go along with Foster’s fishing cupcakes, I got to make a fish cake too. This was the first cake I have ever carved. It was white cake with this buttercream. I used this ca...
Fondant Sock Monkey Cake Topper
My sweet and wonderful friends are expecting their first baby just after the New Year. Mandy had been my best friend for longer than she hasn’t and I’ve known her husband for a...
Fun and Easy
I whipped up this cake last weekend for a get together with my parents. I was just supposed to bring desert, nothing fancy, however I wanted to dress it up a little bit. I see...
Happy Birthday Emily! (Pink Ruffle Cake)
 Happy Birthday to my wonderful, amazing baby sister.  You are an incredible woman and I am lucky to have you in my family.  I am so glad that my nephew is getting a baby si...
Happy Birthday Foster! #2
I made this cake this weekend for my sweet little cousin Foster who turns two today. His party theme was tools. The cake is plain white with buttercream frosting. The tools a...
Honey Pear Cake
Recently, I was the lucky recipient of several fresh pears from a co-workers pear tree. These pears were small and their skin was mottled. Beautiful, they were not. But when...