Confession: I do not enjoy making cakes. At all. People often ask me if they can hire me to make a cake, and I always turn them down. I do not have the patience or the creativity to assemble or decorate them. Bundt cake? A cake in a 9×13 pan that you just dump some… Continue reading Best Vanilla Buttercream for Cakes
I have a little boy who turned four today. He is an adorable, sweet, potty talking, sensitive, sister teasing little scamp with boundless energy and an intense love of two things (besides his big sister:) Chocolate and the color “dark blue.” Every morning while we pick out his clothes, he asks me, in his little… Continue reading Blue Velvet Cake
About a year and a half ago, when I was heavily pregnant with my third baby, I got the strangest craving for cake. To most of you, that probably doesn’t really seem like a strange craving, but for me it was. I’m not generally a cake person. If I’m asked what I want for my… Continue reading Homemade Lemon “Nothing Bundt Cake”
Remember how great the school cafeteria food was when you were a kid? I remember begging, begging my parents to let me buy lunch. They were almost always like “No! You aren’t eating that crap!” but every once in a while their resistance would fade and in the face of their pleading 8 year old,… Continue reading Lunch Lady Brownies
Whenever you’re making a new recipe from Paula Deen, you know it’s going to be bad. Or good. Or so bad it’s good. Or so good it’s bad. Do you know what I mean? Butter. Eggs. Sugar. Cream Cheese. All the bad things that are also the good things. Fall is here! Fall is here!… Continue reading Pumpkin Gooey Butter Cake
Oh my gosh you guys. I am obsessed with this cake. Obsessed. My sweet neighbor, Amanda, brought me over a giant bag of plums this week. Giant. This sweet, delicious fruit is amazing to just eat fresh, but she brought me so many, I thought “I better find something to bake with these! I found… Continue reading Plum Upside Down Cake
Charlie, my 3 year old son, is obsessed with the color “dark blue.” He has taken the ‘favorite color’ thing to a whole new level. When he’s pretending to be a superhero, and I ask “Oh, are you Super Charlie?” he replies “No! I’m Dark Blue Charlie!” He has three pair of dark blue underpants,… Continue reading Blueberry Zucchini Breakfast Cake
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