Lately, I’ve been on a greens kick. After discovering I could puree spinach and kale into my smoothies without affecting the taste, I started experimenting with hidden, pureed greens in EVERYTHING. And you know what? It totally works. We’re going through at least TWO giant bags of fresh greens per week at my house without my kids knowing they’ve eaten even a single bite of the stuff! In fact, Jamie will swear up and down he hates spinach and kale, [ Read More ]
Archive for the ‘Desserts’ Category
See this cake in the photo? I decided to bake that at 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon. By a quarter till three, it was baked, cooled, frosted, and sitting in the fridge awaiting dinnertime. Do I have your attention yet? I’d forgotten all about this easy recipe until last month, when my dear “sort-of-cousin,” Salina, sent me a Facebook message about it. Ever since that day, I’d been yearning for an opportunity to revisit the recipe and make some small [ Read More ]
Grace’s hippie sister, taking over the kitchen while your regular hostess finishes her math homework. Speaking of Hostess, has anybody else noticed a serious drop in the quality of commercially produced snack cakes in the past 20 years? No wonder whoopie pies have become all the rage. They taste like snack cakes ought to taste — rich and moist and stuffed with fluffy, sugary goodness. They’re basically what you’d have if Oreo Cakesters tasted good.
A month or two ago, I had the opportunity to meet up with some of my old girlfriends, Rheannon and Melissa, whom I never get to see anymore. We’ve all become mothers in the last few years, so we decided to have a playdate among the little ones and enjoy a chance to catch up with one another over some delicious food. Because both of my friends are also clever kitchen bloggers, I wanted to bring something they hadn’t encountered [ Read More ]
Hi folks. Sorry I’ve been so sporadic with posts lately — it’s shower & wedding season, which means I’m busy with custom cake orders. Which is a good problem to have, especially if you like cake decorating as much as I do. I thought I’d share some photos of a recent order to keep in touch until I have time to write up the recipe posts I’ve been sitting on lately. This is a Rubber Duckie bath tub cake I [ Read More ]
Today’s post is from my friend, Nellie, who knew me all the way back when I couldn’t tell the difference between a poured fondant and a rolled one.
So…a beautiful set of photos and accompanying tutorial has been floating around cyberspace for while now, and I wanted to offer up a review of the method described by Amanda over at “I Am Baker” for creating a beautiful cake with cabbage-rose-style adornments. Here is Amanda’s version of this cake, provided in her tutorial: Here is the cake I created from her blog post tips (and shot with an automatic camera in terrible lighting at 10 o’clock at night…):
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