Father’s Day dinner – barbecue steak, cheesey ranch potatoes and this salad which comes from the June 2011 issue of Bon Appetit magazine, yum! 6 cups coarsely chopped English hothouse or Persian cucumbers (about 2 pounds total) (I used the mini cucumbers from Costco) 2 large tomatoes (about 1 pound total), coarsely chopped 1 bunch … Continue reading
Last cake of the weekend! We already have 3 wedding cakes coming up this summer so we bought a new flower making kit because Courtney has some new flowers to learn how to do for some of those cakes. She wanted to practice so when we were all done with the other cakes we put … Continue reading
Our friend Kimber asked if we would make a New York Yankees Father’s Day cake for her husband Tyler to celebrate his very first Father’s Day. This was another fun and different cake for us. We made a vanilla cake (from Ann’s Poppy Seed Cake recipe subbing vanilla for yellow cake and omitting the poppy … Continue reading
This cake was so much fun to make! My friend Lori called to see if we would make a Father’s Day cake for her husband Derek. She sent us a list of things that he likes and we chose what we could do to put on the cake. He loves black licorice so we used … Continue reading
These cakes were for my friend Dave’s wife Lisa who is an avid marathon runner so he wanted a cake with some of the logos of the marathons that she’s run on it. It was a good stretch for us to try something new and ultimately it came out pretty good. Courtney wanted to try … Continue reading
Courtney and I are very proud of this one! It is for Courtney’s friend’s Selsa’s baby girl Yocelynn who turned 2. Selsa sent us a picture of the party theme which was green and pink polka dots with a cute monkey face so we went with a topsy turvy cake in 3 layers and covered … Continue reading
Courtney and I have been busy making cakes this weekend; we made 1 (this one) on Thursday, 2 on Friday and 3 on Saturday so get ready subscribers for a bunch of posts today! I couldn’t put them on the blog until I knew that everyone had received them because they were all either birthday … Continue reading
I got this recipe from the website http://www.food.com after googling shredded chicken. It really is tasty and easy! I was going to take a picture of my burrito that I made with the chicken but I was so hungry that I forgot so here is a picture of the leftovers! 🙂 2 pounds chicken breasts … Continue reading
I don’t remember where I got this recipe, it might have been off the internet but it’s great and goes with any salad. I threw together this salad of Romaine, red cabbage, broccoli, sugar snap peas, carrots, celery, mini cucumbers, Feta and grilled chicken and the dressing went perfectly. 1/4 cup olive oil 3/4 cup … Continue reading
front of cake This one was a challenge for us! 🙂 We struggled a bit to make it look good but it came out ok in the end. The cake is “Ann’s Poppy Seed Cake” recipe without the poppy seeds so basically just a really yummy yellow cake and then for the frosting, we used … Continue reading
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