Homemade Potato Chips

I’m back!  The movie is finally over and I have until the end of April before I start the next one so I’m hoping to get in lots of cooking and baking and blogging! Bob and I are on a quest to lose some weight and get in shape (again!) so on January 30 (the … Continue reading

Garlic and Onion Pickled Cucumbers

We’ve still been doing the Bountiful Basket almost every week but I just haven’t been posting it mostly because of work but if any of you out there want to see what is in it every week, just let me know and I’ll start posting it again.  We’ve been getting lots of English cucumbers so … Continue reading

Baby Girl Baby Shower Fondant Cake

Only one more week of work people and then I’ll be back on the blog!  Can’t wait!  In the meantime, here is a picture of a girly baby shower cake we did on Friday for our friend Shannon at the request of our other friend Sarah (Shannon’s sister).  The cake is brown sugar adapted from … Continue reading

White Chocolate Vanilla Cupcakes

Courtney was having friends over tonight for their traditional Sunday night “movie night” and I have been dying to bake so I made these cupcakes for them.  The recipe comes from Wendy Paul’s “101 Gourmet Cupcakes in 10 Minutes” cookbook which I just love.  Here’s how I decorated them – I took some of our … Continue reading

York Sensational Brownies

Brownies for my friend Julie for her birthday and also for my girls at church.  I changed the recipe up a bit since I didn’t have any York Peppermint Patties, I used Junior Mints instead.  They tasted great but the Jr Mints seemed to just melt and dissolve in the batter whereas when I’ve used … Continue reading

Valentine Truffles

The recipe for these truffles is already on the blog under “Easy Oreo Truffles” but I thought I’d blog about them again for Valentine’s Day as a quick and easy treat idea if you’re in need of one.  I made 2 batches of these which ended up being about 86 truffles and it only took … Continue reading

Panda Bear Cupcakes

Happy Birthday Marlene!  These are for you!  Courtney and Courtney’s friend Jaren and I made these cupcakes for our friend Marlene who loves panda bears.  (We made the panda bear graduation cake for her too.)  The idea comes from Karen Tack and Alan Richardson’s cookbook called “Hello, Cupcake!” – love it!  So much fun to … Continue reading

Blue Ninjago Birthday Fondant Cake

My cute neighbor Alisha asked if Cort and I would make a Ninjago birthday cake for her son Colin so after we figured out what Ninjagos were (little Ninja Leggo dudes), we said yes.  We were excited because we’ve been wanting to experiment with the fondant draping technique and this was our chance to try … Continue reading

Sunshine Cupcakes

The blog has been a little quieter lately and that’s because I started working on a movie on Monday; it’s a movie for the ABC Family Channel and I’m doing wardrobe on this one from now until almost the end of March so posts will be a little less numerous for the next couple of … Continue reading