Author: Julia

Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes with Mint or Vanilla Buttercream Even though Prom is in the Spring, the high school seniors are working hard at a few fundraisers.  I donated three and a half dozen...

Chocolate or Vanilla Cupcake and Chocolate Buttercream topped with Candy Covered Chocolates Tell me these look just like Cherry Pie!  I love making these – it is right up my alley with so many details,...

  Chocolate Cupcake, tinted Mint Buttercream with a mini-Candy Cane It hasn’t been forever since I last blogged…it only feels like that!  More later about what I have been doing – but today! I baked...

Quadruple-Layer Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Buttercream and Hershey Kiss/mini-Nilla Wafer Acorns This was a special-order cake for a birthday.  I love when I get to bake birthday cakes – I imagine the recipient making...

  Chocolate Cupcakes with Nutella Filling, Nutella Buttercream Swirl & Ferrero Küsschen Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream and Jeff de Bruges Dragées or Nabisco Animal Cracker The third graders and the fifth graders were...

Triple-Layer, 6″ round Chocolate Cake, Mint Buttercream Filling with Chopped Peppermint Patties and Covered in Ombré Tinted Vanilla Buttercream This Chocolate Mint Cake came to me inspired by a request for the cupcake.  I...

Double-Layer, 10″ round Apple Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Frosting, Salted Dark Caramel Sauce and chopped Toasted Pecans This was a lot of cake.  And heavy, too.  That being said, this was a special-order...

Triple-layer, Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Buttercream filling and Chocolate Cream Frosting with a Garnish of Chopped Roasted Peanuts I don’t know what it was that prompted me to bake a peanut butter cake…maybe I...

Double-layer, 8″ round Checkerboard Cake with Vanilla/Almond Buttercream Cakes from the Test Kitchen sometimes turn out a bit “iffy.”  I was really happy with the results of today’s effort.  Let me walk you through...

Last month I visited my people in the U.S.  It was great times catching up and seeing some of the people I love.  Each person I went to visit had one request in common,...