Gram’s Best Brown Sugar Cake

This is not my gram’s cake recipe, I think this is a Kraft recipe but I can’t remember where I got it from so I’m not sure.  It is so delicious!  Try it, try it right now!  🙂 1 (2 layer size) package yellow cake mix 1 (3.4 oz) package vanilla flavor instant pudding 4 … Continue reading

Petits Fours Cupcakes

Our friend and neighbor Kali is getting married in August and so these are for her wedding shower this afternoon.  The recipe/instructions come from the cookbook “Hello, Cupcake!” by Karen Tack and Alan Richardson.  I used a “Funfetti” cake mix and baked the cupcakes per the instructions on the box in mini muffin pans and … Continue reading

Hippo Mini Fondant Birthday Cake

My friend Tesla’s little boy Grant is turning 1 and she was having a zoo animal themed birthday party for him so I asked her if Courtney and I could make a cake for him and she said yes.  We actually ended up making 2 because we wanted to practice making zoo animals so here … Continue reading

Cookies and Cream Dream Cupcakes

And cupcake recipe #3 for the girls from “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes”.  As you can see from the picture, I had some Oreos peeking through my cupcakes so learn from my mistakes and make sure that your batter is smoothed over the cookies so that they don’t poke through.  I thought the batter … Continue reading

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Cupcakes

Cupcake recipe #2 for the girls at camp from “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes”.  These have a pleasant surprise at the bottom, a mini Reeses Peanut Butter Cup, yum! 1 box chocolate cake mix 3 eggs 1 cup milk 1 bag mini chocolate peanut butter cups 1  Mix together cake mix, eggs and milk.  … Continue reading

Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

I spent this morning making about 80 cupcakes for the girls in my neighborhood who are up at Girls Camp right now.  I made 4 different kinds of cupcakes which I will post except for the “Chocolate Chip Mint Cupcakes” which are already on the blog.  The pictures for them will be without frosting because … Continue reading

Blueberry Tart

Another dessert for the family 4th of July dinner.  This one is from http://www.realsimple.com.  I doubled the filling ingredients so that there would be enough to cover the pastry and I used both strawberries and blueberries to top the tart. 1 (8 oz) sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed 1 egg, beaten 1 tablespoon sugar 4 … Continue reading

Apricot and Banana Muffins

This is #24 in Susanna Tee’s cookbook, “1 Mix, 100 Muffins”.  My sister in law Mary and her family are here visiting this week and I had a bunch of bananas in the freezer so I thought I’d make these for everyone to snack on.  I didn’t have any dried apricots so I did walnuts … Continue reading