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 Dark Chocolate Cake, Peanut Butter Buttercream Filling, Whipped Chocolate Ganache and Peanut Butter Ombre, Lindt Chocolate Drizzle with Whipped Chocolate Buttercream Roses and a flurry of So Many Chocolates! This is a birthday...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
