Recipes

cookies
Steps to Making the Perfect Sugar Cookie (and Cookie Pop)
Modest title, right? Okay, well, I am proud of my sugar cookies, so don't mind me. I've been baking up batches like crazy these days, so I feel as though I have it down to a science. Funny, I used...

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Best-Ever Chocolate Nutella Layer Cake
Chocolate, chocolate everywhere! I was looking through some older posts the other day, and I came across these Chocolate Birthday Cupcakes with Nutella Cloud Frosting. And while I've never been fi...

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How to Make a (Perfectly Delightful) Vanilla Birthday Cake
As you may have guessed, I love birthdays. Not just mine, but pretty much any birthday I can be part of. I especially love those celebrated by my family and friends, and now that we're into spring...

autumn
Autumn Delight Cake
So it turns out this cake has more ingredients than any cake I have ever made! And when I started to write the cake description in the blog title, I realized that there are 18 words and two ampers...

autumn
Sugar & Spice Delight Cake
Well it seems that, somehow, between hours of mad baking, book writing, recipe testing and getting my cakelets back to school, it became autumn. I'm pretty sure it was summer last time I looked ou...

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Vanilla Buttermilk Cake with Instant Fudge Frosting
I have a real thing for the 70's. I mean, heck, I was born smack dab in the middle of them, into a family of much older siblings ready and eager to love, spoil and torment an unsuspecting baby sis...

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Swiss Meringue Buttercream Demystified
I've received so many emails and comments asking about the ever-intimidating Swiss Meringue Buttercream (let's call it SMB), that I thought it may help to run through how to make this glorious not...

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The Perfect Gingerbread Cookie
'Tis the season for much joy, family, and holiday shopping, but also that of butter and sugar, that's for certain. Although for some of us that sugar-filled season is all year round. But since gin...

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Midnight Cookies & Cream Cake
Hi friends! First off, to all of the mamas out there, Happiest Mother's Day to you! You deserve 6-layer cake and so much more. This week I made this rather decadent cake, and let me tell you it's ...
