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.
Triple-Layer Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Cream Filling and Chopped Roasted Peanuts, a Chocolate Buttercream Crumb Coat and Whipped Chocolate Ganache Frosting with a Reese Peanut Butter Cups Topping. This signature cake is one...
Mango-Vanilla Cupcake with Mango Curd filling, Vanilla Buttercream frosting and a Toasted Coconut & Macadamia Nut topper What a tropical-sounding cupcake! This cupcake was inspired by the ingredients available to me in Heidelberg. ...
The Cherry Layer Cake cupcake with Cherry Buttercream This past week I’ve been in the test kitchen in search of a delicious Cherry Layer Cake. There are amazing cherry cake recipes on-line and in recipe...
While putting together the pictures for the blog post about color, I found the snapshots of the Polka-Dot cake I baked in April. Now that was seriously fun! I was coming off of several...
I love color! The magic of color and cakes cannot be understated. When I first started messing around with cakes and color, I learned a few things. And I’m happy to share that. There...
Lemon Cake with a Fresh Raspberry Puree and Mascarpone Cream Filling frosted with Lemon and Raspberry Icing. Yesterday I helped a friend develop some cupcake decorating skills. Afterwards, I thought more about lemons and...
Chocolate Cupcake with Strawberry Cream Cheese filling, frosted with Chocolate Ganache and a swirl of Cream Cheese Buttercream, topped with a single, whole Strawberry. Yesterday during my daily walk (I almost always stop to...
When it comes to birthday cakes, I’m not sure I know what I’m doing. And I surely shouldn’t have volunteered to bake such an important cake as this one, considering ….”In 3 days...
Rainbow Cakes are amazing to look at and contemplate. I really love this cake. More than a month ago, a sweet friend made a special order for a Rainbow Cake; she was responsible for bringing...
Vanilla Cupcake with Vanilla Buttercream. What could be more classic or basic or simple? And yet, part of me wants to describe it as complicated? Can a cupcake be both? I’ve been watching Gordon Ramsay on...
