How to make a tiered cake while working full-time.

Pixar's Coco Themed Birthday Cake

Making a tiered cake while working full time without losing your mind is quite a feat.  In this article I’ll give you some of my best tips to help keep you sane and produce a gorgeous cake for those you love. I’m not sure when big beautiful cakes became common for birthday parties. Maybe (probably) Pinterest has something to do … Read More

Cake Truffles

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 past weekend, my dad requested “orange cake with cream cheese frosting.”  This means he specifically wanted orange cake made from a mix.  I happened to have one in my cupboard.  Fast forward … Read More

Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake with German Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream and 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 remember, I’ve baked birthday cakes for my family. Of course, back in the day it was a plain 9×13 inch cake from a box with a can of frosting slathered on top. (My sister and I … Read More

Football Cupcakes

Vanilla football cupcakes with strawberry rhubarb cream

I made these a few weeks ago for my brother-in-law’s birthday.  My brother-in-law loves both football and strawberry rhubarb so I thought I might try and combine them in one place.  And since last year he got a watery mess of a strawberry rhubarb pie, I thought that place should be cake. My brother-in-law is a good guy, a wonderful … Read More

Pink Ruffle Cake

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 sister, because really, a little sister is the best gift I have ever gotten. How to make a ruffle cake: This ruffle cake is really … Read More

Fishing Cupcakes

Easy Fishing Cupcakes

Easy to make “fishing” themed cupcakes made with Swedish fish and pretzel rods. Make your own or simply decorate store bought cupcakes.   I recently got to make these super cute, super easy cupcakes for my little cousin Foster’s third birthday party.  The party was fishing themed and his mom saw these cupcakes on Pinterest and asked me to make … Read More

Rainbow Cupcakes with Whipped Cream Buttercream

Easy Rainbow Swirl Frosting

Rainbow swirl cupcakes are the perfect way to easily add color to cupcakes without having to mix a million colors of frosting! I have been wanting to try this swirl technique for awhile, but was a little bit intimidated.  I thought that it would be much harder than it actually was.  It was actually quite fun.  Each cupcake turned out … Read More

Easy Valentine’s Day Mini Cupcakes

Quick, easy Valentine's mini cupcakes

Easy Valentine’s Day Mini Cupcakes are made with simple piped Candy Melt cupcake toppers and are the perfect tiny sweet treat for those you love. Sometimes a tiny treat is just exactly the perfect way to say I love you. And mini cupcakes are the perfect tiny treat. You can make half a cake mix worth of mini cupcakes (should … Read More

How to fill a piping bag

how to fill a piping bag

When I first started decorating cakes and cupcakes, I used to get extremely frustrated filling my piping bag.  I would hold the empty bag in one hand and try and scoop frosting in with the other.  I somehow would manage to get frosting all over the outside of the bag and would often have trouble scooping the icing out of … Read More