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.
Double-layer Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream Swans Down Cake Flour produced a series of advertisements in the mid-1950s… and they took a different approach to highlighting their product. Instead of focusing solely...
Vanilla Cake, Heavy Whipped Cream, and Canned Peach Halves These vintage ads are my jam. They’re the original Pinterest – images that could be cut from a magazine and saved in a file folder...
Lemon and Strawberry Layer Cake with Lemon Swiss Meringue Buttercream Filling and Frosting Sometimes Lemon Layer Cake is the answer and I don’t even care about the question! On this particular day, I was...
Double-layer Chocolate Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Frosting with a garnish of Strawberries, Cookies, Raspberries, White Chocolate Kit Kat Bar, and Candy These two layers of my favorite Chocolate Layer Cake is the work-horse...
Triple-layer Butterscotch Cake, Vanilla Swiss Meringue Buttercream, Caramel Sauce Filling, and a garnish of Caramel Popcorn, Pecans, Chocolate & Caramel Pretzels, and Twix Candy Bars I know, I know… Butterscotch Layer Cake is usually...
Dark Chocolate Bundt Cake, Lindt Chocolate Lava, Peanut Butter Buttercream, and Peanut Butter BonBons with Chocolate Dipped Potato Chips All this chocolate and peanut butter and crunchy, salty potato chips? This cake right...
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!...
Double-layer Lemon Cake, Lemon Swiss Meringue Buttercream, and White Chocolate covered Strawberries with Blue Sugar Sprinkles Summer is here and that means picnics, neighborhood barbecues, family weekends, and…. the 4th of July! I love...
– Vanilla Cake Rounds with locally produced Strawberry Rhubarb Jam Unfortunately, I’m still not tired of these vintage ads! While I’ve found emerging patterns in the cake/baking vintage ads – the images that routinely catch...
Peach Cake with Peach Buttercream and an M&M Garnish It’s that time of year! Desserts on-the-go describe summer picnics, BBQs, family reunions, potlucks, camp out, etc. How to get your favorite cake to that...
