Valentine’s Day: Test Kitchen 1.0
Triple Layer Red Velvet Cake and Cheesecake topped with Cream Cheese Buttercream Roses This is a Test Kitchen Cake…I have no idea what I’m doing. But let’s back up… I was out of the...
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Hummingbird Cake for a New Year
Triple-layer, 8″ round Hummingbird Cake with Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Frosting with chopped Pecans and Caramel Drizzle Finally! Back in action after taking a lovely hiatus over the holidays [read: family holiday to Rome...
Christmas Cupcakes
Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes with Mint or Vanilla Buttercream Even though Prom is in the Spring, the high school seniors are working hard at a few fundraisers. I donated three and a half dozen...
Cherry Pie Cupcakes
Chocolate or Vanilla Cupcake and Chocolate Buttercream topped with Candy Covered Chocolates Tell me these look just like Cherry Pie! I love making these – it is right up my alley with so many details,...
Christmas Mint Cupcakes
Chocolate Cupcake, tinted Mint Buttercream with a mini-Candy Cane It hasn’t been forever since I last blogged…it only feels like that! More later about what I have been doing – but today! I baked...
Vanilla Cake & Chocolate Buttercream
Quadruple-Layer Vanilla Cake with Chocolate Buttercream and Hershey Kiss/mini-Nilla Wafer Acorns This was a special-order cake for a birthday. I love when I get to bake birthday cakes – I imagine the recipient making...
3rd Grade Bake Sale Cupcakes
Chocolate Cupcakes with Nutella Filling, Nutella Buttercream Swirl & Ferrero Küsschen Vanilla Cupcakes with Vanilla Buttercream and Jeff de Bruges Dragées or Nabisco Animal Cracker The third graders and the fifth graders were...
Chocolate Mint Cake
Triple-Layer, 6″ round Chocolate Cake, Mint Buttercream Filling with Chopped Peppermint Patties and Covered in Ombré Tinted Vanilla Buttercream This Chocolate Mint Cake came to me inspired by a request for the cupcake. I...
Apple Cake for an Anniversary
Double-Layer, 10″ round Apple Cake, Vanilla Buttercream Filling and Frosting, Salted Dark Caramel Sauce and chopped Toasted Pecans This was a lot of cake. And heavy, too. That being said, this was a special-order...
Peanut Butter Cake
Triple-layer, Peanut Butter Cake with Chocolate Buttercream filling and Chocolate Cream Frosting with a Garnish of Chopped Roasted Peanuts I don’t know what it was that prompted me to bake a peanut butter cake…maybe I...