Birthdays are all about celebration.Buttercream is also all about celebration. Maybe YOU are one of the lucky ones who indulge in the decadent, delicious, dessert of homemade buttercream on a regular basis – but most of us save and savor this delight for super special occasions.BIRTHDAYS meet that category.In my life, I so enjoy going…
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Sometimes things just don’t turn out the way you’d imagined or hoped. And, for the record, although she seems rather simple, Peppa Pig is NOT easy to incarnate in cake form.While I love to bake creative layer cakes, professional character cakes are something else altogether. They certainly are not yet my expertise. While the eyes…
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It’s INDEPENDENCE DAY! 🇺🇸🎆🎇🇺🇸❤️💙!!!Let’s celebrate our freedom and our ability to party today! Yahoo! I’m ready for a friend’s BBQ party, bringing along 50 – yes, 50 decorated vanilla cupcakes, donned in white buttercream and red, white, and blue firecracker sprinkles. They are beautiful. They are divine. And they represent all the great things we…
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Can you imagine anything MORE decadent?Well, if you have a foodie imagination, I’m guessing you probably can – chocolate would most likely be involved. But, for today, we have a perfected pie crust, layered with sea salted caramel sauce, topped with a layer of sweetened cream cheese, another layer of Bonne Maman (the BEST) Wild…
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There are certainly few exceptions to my “rules” that I will make on a day to day basis, and shortbread is one of them. I welcome the delicate, yet robust, butter, sweet, salty, crunchy, creamy biscuit of delight into my life on any occasion.Shortbread is THE BOMB 💣💥It’s something NONE OF US SHOULD be living…
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While lemon isn’t typically a fall harvest or Halloween flavor, it certainly is tasty!Enjoy this super simple white lemon loaf cake, with layers of vanilla buttercream frosting, and festive orange sprinkles for your pre-trick-or-treating Halloween snack!! 🧡🎃👻💀🕷
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A sandwich cookie, also known as a sandwich biscuit, is a type of cookie made from two thin cookies or medium cookies with a filling between them. Many types of fillings are used, such as cream, ganache, buttercream, chocolate, cream cheese, jam, peanut butter, lemon curd, or ice cream. And that’s that! Today we have…
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The health benefits of fermented foods is no surprise to any of us these days. Yogurt, yes. Kombucha, check. Wine, hell ya! Aged and fermented cheese, of course – I can’t live without this. And, sauerkraut, well, duh!Go Will wildbrine Sauerkraut happens to be one of my very, VERY favorites. It’s fresh (and fermented), uniquely…
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I actually made this cake for Mother’s Day. Brian asked me, “Is it a surprise cake?”I told him, “Not really, other than Mom will be surprised I made it!” Lemons are good for Mother’s Day, I think. Fresh, tart, tangy, unexpected, and utterly loved. Just like moms. I tried a new idea for the frosting…
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It’s another surprise cake – or a “cake-yata” (like a piñata, but with easy slicing instead of hearty bashing). I baked this cake as a belated birthday surprise cake for my darling, riveting, Rylee-Roo.This year, my niece, experienced her 14th birthday in quarantine. We held a Zoom call party, but it simply wasn’t the same….
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