Another cake done. This Baby Yoda cake didn’t turn out quite as I had hoped. It is missing that sweet young innocent looking face. It’s definitely more of an older Yoda. I wanted to do better than a flat little …
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Little Deadpool Cake
My son just celebrated his 31st birthday and asked me to make him a Little Deadpool Cake. In all the years of making cakes I’ve actually never made him one of my sculpted or special cakes. Oh, don’t get me …
Spring Gardening Cake
Here’s a cute little cake I made for my son’s girlfriend’s mom. Whew, that was a mouthful. She wanted something small, cute and gardening related. She sent me one idea and I did the whole Pinterest thing and found a …
Farm Tractor Birthday Cake
A cute little farm tractor cake for one of my daughter’s co-workers. It’s a simple two-layer chocolate cake with a raspberry filling and buttercream frosting. The tractor was made from Rice-Krispie treats and covered in fondant. The pumpkins are all …
Bridal Shower Cookies
Just a quickie little post today to share some cookies I made for a bridal shower yesterday. I wanted to go a little more elegant than my normal buttercream frosting. It just doesn’t get the details necessary for these cookies. …
Rosemary Herb Sourdough Bread
So I sort of jumped on the sourdough bandwagon a while back but it’s truthfully something I’ve been wanting to work on forever. I used to do the whole Amish friendship bread thing but after a while it got overwhelming …
Harry Potter – Gryffindor Birthday Cake
My grandson just celebrated his 9th birthday and asked for a Harry Potter cake. He went through Pinterest with his mom and picked out the cake he wanted me to make. I thought it looked pretty easy for the most …
Banana Bread Revisited
My kids always complain that whenever they make one of my recipes it doesn’t taste like mine. They accuse me of leaving out steps or ingredients on purpose and I realized they are probably right. Well, maybe not on purpose, …
Fall Cookie Fun
I never did get around to making Halloween cookies this year and my grandson has been bugging me to make frosted cookies. So we dug through the cookie cutter bins and found a few good ones for fall. A few …
Graduation season is here – Grad cookies
Looks like graduation season is officially here. I had a friend ask me to make 5 dozen graduation cookies for her daughter’s graduation party. Green and gold were the school colors of course. I used my standard buttercream frosting recipe. …
Where the magic happens…
Well it has to be magical to be able to cook, bake and decorate cakes in this teeny tiny kitchen. Don’t let a tiny kitchen stop you from creating, I try not to. I know, I’ve been off my game …
Baby Shower Cookies – Baby Buggy and Onesie
Made some quick cookies for a friend not too long ago. Not real happy with how my photos turned out though. Talk about blurry! We have a cute little baby buggy Here’s a little onesie She used these as thank …
Pokemon Ball Cake
Now this was an easy cake! Seriously. Clean and simple, just the way I like them. Sometimes the more simple a cake the harder it actually turns out to be. It’s so simple that mistakes can’t be covered so you …
Cranberry Buttermilk Scones
I love scones but I have a very hard time eating bakery scones. They are too big and dry. These are the perfect size and not the dried out bricks you may get elsewhere. Straight out of the oven they …
Cranberry White Chocolate Fudge and Christmas Baking
Whew! I swear Christmas has come and gone at the speed of light. Here I was thinking I had all the time in the world to get everything done before Christmas but then, BAM, Christmas was here and I was …
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