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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We all need a cake for spring – and Easter is here!Let’s celebrate with seasonal and decorative chocolate robin’s eggs, a light and fluffy, moist and full of flavor white vanilla cake, layers of divine pistachio cream, and a lemon cream icing – it’s an Easter egg cake!!! In other words, let’s dive into what…
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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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“This dessert sounds like something Ashley would make.” This was the quote, the challenge, the utterance that made my day a few weeks ago. Dear friends of mine dined on delicious dessert at a fine, fine restaurant in town. Without me. But I was there in spirit. And they shared and spilled the beans on…
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It’s a special time of year when blood oranges are in season. Garnet. Ruby. Crimson. Blood. RED. They are superbly sweet, slightly tangy, and a whole lot of citrusy. They are delicious. And so is vanilla cake. Thus, we must. Mix, match, meld.. …bake a cake. Blood Orange Vanilla Cake 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour…
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