Courtney is going to have dinner at a friend’s house tonight and asked me to make a treat for her to take that wasn’t chocolate because several of those friends don’t like chocolate (what?) so I made these. I baked them in my top oven (I have one of those double ovens) and they were … Continue reading
Here is Josh and Richelle’s wedding cake. The 1st and 3rd layers are Almond Poppy Seed and the 2nd and 4th layers are Brown Sugar, all covered with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting and then Pettinice Buttercream Fondant. Richelle’s colors were hot pink and blue but we decided to go with just the hot pink on the … Continue reading
My friend Josh got married today and Courtney and I made his wedding cake (see next post) but we decided to make him a groom’s cake too and since Josh works in the film business with me, we decided to make him a slate cake. The cake is brown sugar with vanilla buttercream frosting and … Continue reading
After 9 long weeks, my show is finally over so I’m back to the regular routine of blogging and Bountiful Baskets! We stopped getting the basket while I was working because it just wasn’t getting used so now that I’m done, we’re back at it! Here is what was in today’s basket: 6 red apples … Continue reading
This is recipe #14 in Susanna Tee’s “1 Mix, 100 Muffins” cookbook. I love muffins and would eat them every single day for breakfast if I could! 1 cup mini white marshmallows (I had some of those large size marshmallows that are chocolate and vanilla swirled so I used those instead) heaping 1 1/2 cups … Continue reading
Friday was my son Zach’s 23rd birthday. He loves to play guitar and write his own music so Courtney and I decided to make him a guitar birthday cake. We found the guitar shaped cake pan at Michaels (and did an excited little dance in the aisle). The cake is the “Gram’s Best Brown Sugar Cake” … Continue reading
These were for the girls in my class at church and they are divine! The recipe comes from “Cupcakes from the Cake Mix Doctor” by Anne Byrn. cupcakes: 1 (18.25 oz) plain devil’s food cake mix 1 (3.4 oz) package vanilla instant pudding mix 1 cup whole milk (I only had skim so used that … Continue reading
Here is a fun and creative recipe that comes from the May 2011 issue of the Food Network Magazine. It gives you all kinds of options for all kinds of quick breads. I had the first 2 zucchini from our garden sitting on the counter so I went with zucchini and chocolate chips and chocolate glaze (of … Continue reading
This black and white topsy turvy wedding cake was for Courtney’s friend Nicole. It came out pretty cute! The bottom layer is chocolate sour cream and the next layer up is vanilla sour cream (both from the “White Almond Sour Cream Cake” recipe on the blog) and the top 2 layers are brown sugar (from … Continue reading
Here’s our latest fondant cake for our friend Kali’s wedding. The layers were alternating chocolate and vanilla (adapted from the White Almond Sour Cream Cake recipe) topped with Vanilla Buttercream Frosting and then wrapped with Ivory Pettinice Fondant from Funfinity. We wrapped the bottom of the layers first with a red ribbon and then a … Continue reading
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