St. Patrick’s Day Parade…Recap
I love holidays even if I don’t always get to the details of celebrating and acknowledging a celebration. When I was a wee sprout, St. Patrick’s Day was put in the ‘win’ column when...
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Lemon Cheesecake Celebration
Lemon Cake, Cheesecake Layer, Lemon Zest Cream Cheese Buttercream with a garnish of Fresh Strawberries and Blueberries Lemon and Cheesecake! Two of my favorite words…together. This isn’t a combination I’ve put together before and I...
Bright Orange Bundt Cake
Orange Bundt Cake with Orange Zest Glaze What a perfectly bright piece of delicious cake! I baked this cake last month while still feeling the weight of Winter but hoping Spring was around the...
Happy Easter!
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...
Easter Bunny Chocolate Cake
Double-layer Dark Chocolate Cake, Double-layer Banana Chocolate Chip Cake, Chocolate Fudge Filling, Whipped Dark and Milk Chocolate Ganache, Vanilla Buttercream Grass, Almond M&M Eggs, and a delightful Chocolate Bunny So much cake!! So amazing...
Easter Cupcakes on Parade
Vanilla Cupcakes with Tinted Vanilla Buttercream Springtime and Easter and pretty colors and the sun returning – these are the wonderful things that make this time of year so special. The darkness of winter...
Vintage Recreated: Easter Egg Layer Cake
Baker’s Chocolate and Swan’s Cake Mix Advertisement This over-the-top Easter Egg Layer Cake has so much going on – I felt like I was putting everything and the kitchen sink into recreating this design. ...
Vintage Recreated: Pineapple Upside Down Cake
Single-layer Pineapple Upside Down Cake Over the holiday break, we gathered with our people. It was a marvelous time together – we’re all so different so things were always exciting! Anyway, in one of those...
Matisse Cut-Outs Cake
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...
My Neighbor Totoro
Hummingbird Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling and tinted Buttercream Frosting Nothing about this cake is predictable except for the giggles I get every time I look at him. This cake was inspired over the holidays...