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.
Coconut Layer Cake with Coconut Buttercream & Pineapple Curd Filling and Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting garnished with Toasted Macadamia Nuts & Toasted Coconut Flakes Can you tell I’ve been craving a Coconut Cake?? The...
Halloween Dessert Table designed for www.AlwaysFestive.com I was thrilled to create this dessert table for Homer Lauglin, the geniuses who produce my very favorite Fiesta Dinnerware. Of all my ideas, this is what I...
Triple-layer Yellow Cake with Chocolate Ganache Filling and Frosting with Dark Chocolate Roses This cake is a winner all.day.long. A sweet friend of mine asked me to bake a cake for her to take...
Triple-layer Cinnamon Cake, Vanilla Buttercream and Apple Pie Filling with tinted Vanilla Buttercream Ruffles Apples and Cinnamon registers as a comfort food in my DNA… I just feel better when I’m around this natural...
A Bunch of Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate, Peanut Butter, or Nutella Buttercream A few weeks ago I was traveling.. and before I left, I baked more than a few Banana Cupcakes and went all...
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...
Bottom tier: Single-layer Chocolate Cake, Chocolate Fudge Frosting, Crushed Oreo Cookies Top tier: Triple-layer Carrot Cake, Vanilla Cinnamon Buttercream Filling, tinted Cream Cheese Frosting, non-edible Greenery “It’s a CARROT Cake!” I haven’t stopped giggling…...
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 Banana Cake with Whipped Chocolate Ganache Buttercream Filling and a Frosting of Ruffles This sweet little cake is just as darling as could be. Being health conscious and all, I decided a Banana...
Pumpkin Cupcakes, Cream Cheese Frosting, and Caramel Cut-Outs It was chilly the other morning and when I closed my eyes, I imagined all the pumpkin things! It’s early, but I needed a sweater for...
