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 Vanilla Bean Cake, Lindt Dark Chocolate Ganache & Fresh Cut Strawberries filling, Strawberry Vanilla Buttercream Ombre Roses, and a garnish of Fresh Strawberries & Sugar Pearls This was a birthday cake for a...
Chocolate Cupcakes with a Variety of Macarons These cupcakes make me giggle and I’m happy with the results! Executing this piece was definitely a challenge… there were at least 15 dozen moving parts! Maybe that’s reaching…but, almost...
Triple-layer Red Velvet Cake, Cream Cheese Filling & Frosting, Rice Krispie Hearts, and Red Velvet Cupcakes with a Cream Cheese Swirl Nothing says “Be Mine” like a Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Valentine’s Cake...
Happy New Year! We’re currently working to migrate from our Blogger based site to a WordPress site, so there may be some bumps over the next day or so. Our legacy site is...
Triple-layer White Cake, tinted Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Frosting with a Candy Cane Hershey’s Kiss garnish This little test-kitchen cake was all about me messin’ around in the kitchen. I was working on tinting...
Triple-layer German Chocolate Cake with a Whipped Chocolate Ganache Buttercream Roses and a Caramel Coconut topping with Melted Chocolate Ganache Lattice work Even though we know German Chocolate Cake is not German (as reviewed in...
10″ Round, Double-Layer Almond Cake with Nutella Buttercream and a Pine Cone What says Fall more than a beautiful collection of pine cones? And this cake has just the perfect pine cone for holiday...
Two layers of Pumpkin Cake, a center layer of Cheesecake, and tinted Cream Cheese Buttercream This cake was incredible. These Fall flavors are a match made in heaven – they go together like peanut butter and...
Four-layer Walnut Cake with Berry Jam Filling, Blueberry Buttercream, & Fresh Blueberry Garnish Walnuts and Blueberries sound perfect for Fall, especially since the market still has many blueberries available. When I contemplated what “Fall Flavor” to...
Triple-layer Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Buttercream, a Chocolate Web, and a Delicious Spider More spooky Halloween fun! After the Candy Corn cake, the FrankenMonster cupcakes, and the lovely Bride of Frankenstein interpretation…a...
