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
Yesterday’s Bountiful Basket was a huge haul! All this for $15! 2 cantaloupes 1 bag green grapes 6 nectarines 2 pears 9 bananas 5 ears corn on the cob 2 bags of carrots 1 bunch broccoli 3 green peppers 1 head green leaf lettuce 22 potatoes Courtney and I love sourdough bread so Bob added … Continue reading
Here is Dexter checking out last Saturday’s Bountiful Basket (again!) which contained: 1 head green leaf lettuce 4 ears corn on the cob 3 Roma tomatoes 1 bunch broccoli 1 cantaloupe 1 bag purple grapes 6 peaches 3 pears 7 bananas 13 plums 1 container of strawberries We had the corn on the cob with … Continue reading
It was my friend Kristi’s birthday last week so Courtney and I put together a surprise birthday cake for her. Courtney started calling Kristi “Kristilicious” several years ago at Girls Camp and Kristi loves the nickname so much (not!) that Cort decided to put it on her cake. The cake is an 8″ Chocolate Sour … Continue reading
Bob had his Sunday School class over tonight for a barbecue and swim party so I made these treats for them. I found the recipe on the back of the Betty Crocker sugar mix pouch. They were really easy to make and really tasty to eat! 1 (17.5 oz) pouch Betty Crocker Sugar cookie mix … Continue reading
That’s my cat Dexter checking out this week’s Bountiful Basket, he had a fondness for the green corn leaves! 🙂 Here’s what came in today’s basket: 2 bags clementines 5 bananas 4 mangos 1 cantaloupe 1 bag purple seedless grapes 1 container strawberries 9 Roma tomatoes 2 red peppers 7 ears of corn 1 head … Continue reading
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