Welcome! I'm Julia, The Sugary Shrink. I am a Counselor, Wife, Mother, Educator, Recovering Alcoholic, and Baker living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Here, I share my experiences in the kitchen & the counselor's chair.
Coconut Layer Cake with Coconut Buttercream & Pineapple Curd Filling and Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting garnished with Toasted Macadamia Nuts & Toasted Coconut Flakes Can you tell I’ve been craving a Coconut Cake?? The...
Halloween Dessert Table designed for www.AlwaysFestive.com I was thrilled to create this dessert table for Homer Lauglin, the geniuses who produce my very favorite Fiesta Dinnerware. Of all my ideas, this is what I...
Kellogg’s Rice Krispie Treats After two and a half weeks traveling and a serious case of jet lag, I might have found my land legs. And what better way to attack my blog than...
Triple-layer Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache Filling and Frosting with Dark Chocolate Roses This cake is a winner all.day.long. A sweet friend of mine asked me to bake a cake for her to take...
Triple-layer Cinnamon Cake, Vanilla Buttercream and Apple Pie Filling with tinted Vanilla Buttercream Ruffles Apples and Cinnamon registers as a comfort food in my DNA… I just feel better when I’m around this natural...
A Bunch of Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate, Peanut Butter, or Nutella Buttercream A few weeks ago I was traveling.. and before I left, I baked more than a few Banana Cupcakes and went all...
Triple-layer Pumpkin Walnut Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Frosting, Marzipan Buttons What’s more fun that buttons?! I love this design and I definitely love these Fall colors. Last December I created a very similar...
Bottom tier: Single-layer Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Fudge Frosting, Crushed Oreo Cookies Top tier: Triple-layer Carrot Cake, Vanilla Cinnamon Buttercream Filling, tinted Cream Cheese Frosting, non-edible Greenery “It’s a CARROT Cake!” I haven’t stopped giggling…...
Chocolate Cupcakes with a tinted Vanilla Buttercream and a Sugar Bee I think I forgot how to blog!! No seriously. Over the past three weeks I’ve been working on a large-scale baking project, traveled to...
Double-layer Banana Cake with Whipped Chocolate Ganache Buttercream Filling and a Frosting of Ruffles This sweet little cake is just as darling as could be. Being health conscious and all, I decided a Banana...
