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 Orange Cream Cheese Cake, Cream Cheese Filling, Cream Cheese Orange Buttercream Frosting, and a Garnish of Fresh Orange Slices This Orange Cream Cheese Layer Cake was completely delicious… and it nearly didn’t...
Triple-layer Red Velvet Cake, Cream Cheese Filling, tinted Vanilla Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting, and a garnish of Sharkarons It’s Shark Week and all things shark are popping up – isn’t is Jawsome? (I crack...
Triple-layer Strawberry Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Crumb Coat, with a Fresh Blueberry Compote Strawberry Cupcakes, Vanilla Buttercream, and garnished with a Fresh Blueberry Compote I baked this cake a little bit ago and...
Triple-layer Hummingbird Cake, Cream Cheese Filling, and an Ombre Cream Cheese Buttercream Frosting Hummingbird Cupcakes with double swirls of Cream Cheese Buttercream This is still one of my very favorite cakes: Hummingbird Cake...
Double-layer Dark Chocolate Cake, Mocha Filling, Chocolate Buttercream Frosting and Vanilla Bean Macaron Shells Wow! That flavor combination sounds outta this world. Seriously, why haven’t I been making this cake for years? I should...
Triple-layer Blueberry Lemon Cake with a Light Lemony Cream Cheese Buttercream and a Garnish of Fresh Blueberries & Lemon Slice Me: “I don’t know what to bake.” (extended back/forth discussion regarding cake) LP: ...
Four-layer Chocolate Cake, Peanut Butter Cream Filling, Whipped Chocolate Ganache & Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting, with a Chopped Peanut & mini-Morsel Garnish Some of my very favorite flavors are in this cake – three kinds...
Triple-layer Vanilla Bean Cake, Vanilla Buttercream and Blackberry Curd Filling, and a tinted Ombré Vanilla Buttercream Frosting This cake is just as sweet and simple and pretty as the day is long. I baked it...
Vanilla Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Ruffles and a Fresh Fruit Hair Bow A quick post to remember the Test Kitchen doesn’t always go as planned and when it doesn’t, it’s time to step back to...
Chocolate Cake, Fresh Strawberry Curd, Strawberries, Whipped Cream, and Lindt Dark Chocolate Why aren’t these a thing?! Seriously…these are so.crazy.delicious. All my life, in grocery store produce departments in the States and Germany… vanilla...
