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.
Chocolate Layer Cake with a Coffee Cheesecake Center, Chocolate Ganache Cream Cheese Buttercream & Vanilla Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting with a Chocolate Ganache and Chocolate Covered Locally Roasted Coffee Bean Garnish Is this cake...
Vanilla Cupcakes, Oreo Cookie Buttercream, and an Oreo A few weeks ago I baked a big batch of Vanilla cupcakes and decided to design them with a variety of different flavor profiles and looks. I love...
Gluten-Free Cornflake Marshmallow Treats with a Lindt Dark Chocolate Shell The classic no-bake… marshmallow treats with crunchy goodness! I found a box of GF cornflakes in the market and this recipe tumbled into action....
Chocolate Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream and Chocolate BonBons What’s more sassy than a Chocolate Cupcake with a swirl of buttercream? I can’t hardly think of a thing! A few weeks ago, before we headed...
No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars with a Milk Chocolate Layer It’s been hot, hot, hot in Heidelberg this week. I can still bake in this heat because I love to bake! However, I’m not...
Square, Double-layer Chocolate Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Frosting with a garnish of Fresh Red Currants Chocolate Layer Cake is the same in any shape – delicious! I’ve been examining how I bake and construct...
Chocolate Cupcakes and Tinted Vanilla Buttercream Frosting Happy Birthday, USA! And, since it’s your birthday, we’re having cupcakes. I’ve been working with chocolate cupcakes this week – different design styles that I hope make...
Double-layer Dark Chocolate Cake, Mocha Filling, Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and Vanilla Bean Macaron Shells Wow! That flavor combination sounds outta this world. Seriously, why haven’t I been making this cake for years? I should...
Four-layer Chocolate Cake, Peanut Butter Cream Filling, Whipped Chocolate Ganache & Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting, with a Chopped Peanut & mini-Morsel Garnish Some of my very favorite flavors are in this cake – three kinds...
Chocolate Cake, Fresh Strawberry Curd, Strawberries, Whipped Cream, and Lindt Dark Chocolate Why aren’t these a thing?! Seriously…these are so.crazy.delicious. All my life, in grocery store produce departments in the States and Germany… vanilla...
