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.
Bottom Tier: Triple-layer Lemon Cake, Lemon Buttercream Filling, and Vanilla Buttercream Ruffles Top Tier: Triple-layer Butterscotch Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Frosting, Marzipan Vines Talk about a tower of cake!! This baby is heavy...
Four Layer Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Swiss Meringue Buttercream Filling, and Vanilla American Buttercream Frosting garnished with Blue Marzipan Stars Nothing says the 4th of July quite like a red, white, and blue Chocolate Layer Cake!...
Chocolate Cupcakes with tinted Vanilla Buttercream and Chocolate Candy Sixlets We’re celebrating April’s Cupcakes… not quite enough to be a blog post on their own, but collectively the sum of the parts is pretty...
Honey Spice Cake with Honey Cinnamon Buttercream Filling, Vanilla Buttercream Frosting and Marzipan Flowers I love all the colors of the flowers on this beehive! Today I’m celebrating bees, the importance of bees, and...
Triple-layer Vanilla Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Frosting, Marzipan Cut-out, and tinted Flaked Coconut Happy Easter to all my friends who celebrate the holiday and Happy Sunday to my friends who don’t! There’s room...
Triple-layer Dark Chocolate Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling & Frosting, with tinted Marzipan Cut-Outs We were traveling weekend before last and visited several of our favorite museums. At the first, Centre Pompidou, I was reminded how...
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...
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 Light Butterscotch Cake, Cheesecake, Vanilla Buttercream, and Marzipan Mouse Ears What a fun birthday cake! A wonderful friend of ours here in Heidelberg was celebrating her birthday a few days late with a...
