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Baby

Cute as a button No, I haven’t taken up sewing. (Not yet anyway.) These adorable little buttons are all candy. And, umm… they are like handmade. Not by me, but [...] Sunday, January 31, 2010

Christmas

Gingerbread Heads The season of giving will be upon us in just a few short days. I love December. People start baking and sharing sweets with friends and family … even [...] Monday, November 28, 2011
Sweet Soldiers My friend Cupcake Julie had her Christmas party this past weekend. You may remember her gorgeous sugar-themed decorations. Stuff like [...] Monday, December 20, 2010
Santas I made you guys a template for these Santa cookies. If you want it. I turned my sketches into something a little more presentable. If you click on the [...] Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Piping Practice Since the holidays are here, I wanted to make some cute Christmas cookies to celebrate. Plus, I can definitely use the season as a reason to practice [...] Monday, December 13, 2010
Red Velvet Revisited I wanted to try this Red Velvet recipe from the other day again for a few reasons: I had green food coloring and figured it would be fun for St. [...] Thursday, March 11, 2010
Red Velvet Cake After yesterday’s post, I thought it was only appropriate to follow up with the real thing. No purse this time. This is all cake. Velvety and yes [...] Monday, February 22, 2010
Snowman Cake Pops I made these snowmen pops last year and just never got around to posting them. I think they are pretty darn cute. The black confetti sprinkles are [...] Monday, January 4, 2010
Candyland I have this friend. My friend loves cupcakes. I mean, really loves cupcakes. Her name is Julie. I like to call her Cupcake Julie. She doesn’t know [...] Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Looking for a last minute treat? This one is super easy and you can make it in a snap. It was really easy for me because a friend made and gave me some today. Now, it won’t win [...] Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Candy Cane Christmas Tree Cupcakes I went to a Christmas party last weekend that ended up being the inspiration for these decorated cupcakes. The home of the party was filled with sugar [...] Sunday, December 20, 2009
Mama’s Pecan Pies This is my grandmother’s recipe. It’s perfect. It’s special. And it makes three pecan pies. It will also make three recipients very [...] Monday, December 14, 2009
Christmas and some cookies Okay… finally, the post from last weekend. My camera never did wake up by the way. But I did manage to get all the photos off using a friend’s [...] Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The sweetest cookies I’ve ever seen! And yes, I’m a little biased and a lot proud. A few mornings ago I made sugar cookies with my niece (and bakerella in training). I decided to let [...] Friday, December 26, 2008
Snow Globe Coca-Cola Cupcakes Did I get your attention? I hope so. Because I’m guest blogging today on the website, Cupcakes Take the Cake! And to celebrate the occasion, [...] Monday, December 22, 2008
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! And, what’s a better way to start the season than with Christmas Cake Pops! First up… Reindeers. Super cute. But wait, I think they need red [...] Monday, December 8, 2008
Reindeer Chow Santa gets cookies, but his reindeer get hungry too. I made this little treat for the kids to set out on Christmas Eve. It’s super easy and super [...] Sunday, December 30, 2007
HO! HO! uh OH! Someone’s been eating a few too many cupcakes. [...] Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Clarice and Rudolph After watching Rudolph on dvd with my niece I decided to make these cute little cupcakes. Rudolph looks a little cross-eyed, but Clarice is pretty. And [...] Monday, December 17, 2007
My niece bakes too! Here’s a set of Christmas cupcakes that my six-year old niece decorated. I’m especially fond of the Rudolph. And Santa’s pretty darn [...] Monday, December 17, 2007
Holiday Chocolate Chip Cookies Made these cookies with these cute little morsels… Thanks mom for finding these swirled cuties. [...] Monday, December 10, 2007
It’s December! Time for Christmas cupcakes Here’s a set of Christmas cupcakes I made to start the month off right. We ate these while we decorated the house for the holidays. I also had some [...] Sunday, December 2, 2007

Easter

Easter Bonnets I’ll just call them Cookie Hats since Easter is now over. I made these this weekend but you can certainly do them for other occasions like Mothers [...] Monday, April 5, 2010
Eye Candy I absolutely had the most fun making these Miniature Easter Basket Cupcakes. I know this idea has been done a ton of different ways before, but I [...] Thursday, April 9, 2009
I have a problem. I can’t stop making these pops. Every time I finish making a batch, I tell myself that’s it. No more. I’m done. And, then the next [...] Thursday, April 2, 2009
Easter Cake Pops, Part Two The Easter Chick Cake Pops from last week were certainly cute. FYI, the all body ones with feet were hands down the winner. Actually it was a beat down. [...] Monday, March 30, 2009
Spring Chickens Here they are. The first of the Easter Cake Pops. I’ve had lots of requests over the last few days for these, so I spent some time working out [...] Thursday, March 26, 2009
Hey Everybunny… …hippity hoppity, Easter’s on its way. Last night I made two bunny cupcakes and when I woke up, I found all these itty-bitty baby bunnies hopping [...] Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Father's Day

They Got Me The other day I was doing a little impromptu shopping. I had already spent more than I wanted and I was about to pass the Williams-Sonoma store. I said [...] Thursday, May 20, 2010
Fast Food Fun Cupcake Buns + Brownie Burgers + Cookie Fries = One Happy Meal! Or many… I can hardly stand how cute these little guys are. You’ve probably [...] Sunday, June 14, 2009
Pops for Pop! And boy are they super! Well, more like super trouble. These little cake pops were made following the idea for the red velvet cake balls and then using [...] Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Can you draw as good as a six-year-old? Sure you can – and impress your kids at the same time. This was my first attempt at a multi-tiered cake. And of course, I went mini. I used a [...] Thursday, May 22, 2008

For Her

Hamm and Potatoes Eeek! Eeeeek! Oink! Oink! It’s Hamm… everyone’s favorite talking plastic piggy bank. Well, his head at least. I couldn’t resist [...] Friday, June 18, 2010
Characters in Cake Cake balls… Candy melts… and candy color … These are key participants in the cake pops I’m about to show you. Any guesses? Anyone? I made [...] Sunday, April 11, 2010
Easter Bonnets I’ll just call them Cookie Hats since Easter is now over. I made these this weekend but you can certainly do them for other occasions like Mothers [...] Monday, April 5, 2010
Tartelette, these are for you! Remember last month when I went to a macaron making class given by Helen of Tartelette? Well, we had never met before the class, but I have been [...] Monday, February 15, 2010
Street Party Sesame Street. Pop Party. This Tuesday, November 10th is the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street. Can you believe it. 40 years and the muppet mania [...] Sunday, November 8, 2009
Mix things up! Yeehaaa… yum yum… it’s Cowboy Cookies. Or, in this case, Cowgirl Cookies. A friend introduced these to me and I love them. Especially the [...] Monday, August 24, 2009
Here Kitty, Kitty! It’s my cake pops, Hello-Kitty style. Back in December, I made a little Hello Kitty cake for my niece’s 1st Birthday and as I was shaping [...] Monday, February 23, 2009
Hello Kitty, Goodbye Basketweave Did I mention that I stink at piping! If I haven’t, let me say it now. I stink at piping! My niece had her 1st birthday the other day and I wanted [...] Sunday, January 4, 2009
Flower Power I did it. I’m sooooooo excited. I have been wanting to learn how to make homemade decorated sugar cookies since I started this website. But, [...] Monday, September 22, 2008
Hope these put a smile on your face Just look how cute they are… And yet so vicious! And without regret! (Ouch! Painful, but delicious.) Now, if you’re a little less mainstream, [...] Monday, August 11, 2008
Strawberry Oreos Equal………….? I was going to take my niece to see the movie, Kung Fu Panda, but just my luck, she had already seen it. So, instead we made panda bear cupcakes from [...] Friday, June 27, 2008
Can you draw as good as a six-year-old? Sure you can – and impress your kids at the same time. This was my first attempt at a multi-tiered cake. And of course, I went mini. I used a [...] Thursday, May 22, 2008
Wow Your Mom on Mother’s Day! Can’t decide on flowers or candy? Then give your mom both – and some cupcakes to boot. These cute candy flowers were inspired by fellow [...] Thursday, May 1, 2008
Happy Birthday Cupcakes I spent an afternoon making a little cake and different size cupcakes for my sister’s birthday. They looked and tasted great (thank goodness)! If [...] Monday, November 19, 2007

For Him

Super Bowl Sweets The Super Bowl will be on in a few hours so I thought I would go ahead and share some sweet treats worth cheering for. That is if you are a Pittsburgh [...] Sunday, February 6, 2011
Hamm and Potatoes Eeek! Eeeeek! Oink! Oink! It’s Hamm… everyone’s favorite talking plastic piggy bank. Well, his head at least. I couldn’t resist [...] Friday, June 18, 2010
Howdy! My name’s Mater. Tow Mater to be exact. I’m kind of a celebrity. You see, I was in this little movie about cars a few years ago. Yeah… [...] Monday, June 14, 2010
They Got Me The other day I was doing a little impromptu shopping. I had already spent more than I wanted and I was about to pass the Williams-Sonoma store. I said [...] Thursday, May 20, 2010
Characters in Cake Cake balls… Candy melts… and candy color … These are key participants in the cake pops I’m about to show you. Any guesses? Anyone? I made [...] Sunday, April 11, 2010
Are you ready for some footballs? Okay, so I realize it’s almost too late to post something Super Bowl related and all – seeing as how the big game is tomorrow night. But, I [...] Saturday, February 6, 2010
Street Party Sesame Street. Pop Party. This Tuesday, November 10th is the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street. Can you believe it. 40 years and the muppet mania [...] Sunday, November 8, 2009
Puppy Pops Check out these cute little canine cake pops that are sure to make your kids beg for more. Here’s what you’ll need to decorate:Cake [...] Monday, September 8, 2008
Hope these put a smile on your face Just look how cute they are… And yet so vicious! And without regret! (Ouch! Painful, but delicious.) Now, if you’re a little less mainstream, [...] Monday, August 11, 2008
Pops for Pop! And boy are they super! Well, more like super trouble. These little cake pops were made following the idea for the red velvet cake balls and then using [...] Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Super Bowl Funday? So I had an idea for using the Oreo Truffle Recipe I’ve shown before and turning those into little tiny footballs. Well, let’s just say the [...] Monday, February 4, 2008

Graduation

Candy Cup Caps Can you guess what I’m going to make with all this stuff? Little bitty candy cup graduation caps. That’s what. I don’t even know [...] Monday, May 4, 2009

Halloween

Eye Popping! I’ve been wanting to make eyeball cake pops every Halloween since I made these cake pops back in 2008. But, when I made these, I was completely [...] Monday, October 17, 2011
Spiders, Spiders, Spiders I can’t stand spiders (ick), yet I can’t seem to stop making them for Halloween. Some of the first cupcakes I ever tried to decorate were [...] Sunday, October 25, 2009
Trix out your treats! Last month, the fun folks over at General Mills invited several bloggers to create something sweet and spooky for Halloween using some of their cereals [...] Sunday, October 4, 2009
Pumpkin Pie Bites I’ve been in a mini-mood lately when it comes to baking and these bite-sized pies met my big craving. They are really, really easy. Let me show [...] Monday, September 28, 2009
Trick or Treats Hope you scream over these Halloween Cake Pops. (Frankensteins, spiders and werewolves, oh my!) These spooky sweets are sure to get you in the [...] Monday, October 6, 2008
Kitty Cat Cupcakes Kitty Cat Cupcakes Originally uploaded by Bakerella These ended up on the cute side of spooky, but were still a big hit with the kids. [...] Thursday, November 1, 2007
Halloween Cupcakes After finding some great ideas for halloween cupcakes at cupcakestakethecake, I decided to jump in and go for it. Here’s what I started [...] Thursday, November 1, 2007

Mother's Day

Easter Bonnets I’ll just call them Cookie Hats since Easter is now over. I made these this weekend but you can certainly do them for other occasions like Mothers [...] Monday, April 5, 2010
Mom & Pops Mother’s Day is next Sunday, so I thought this was as good a time as any to experiment with some Flower Cake Pops. And, I had a bunch of leftover [...] Sunday, May 3, 2009
Flower Power I did it. I’m sooooooo excited. I have been wanting to learn how to make homemade decorated sugar cookies since I started this website. But, [...] Monday, September 22, 2008
Can you draw as good as a six-year-old? Sure you can – and impress your kids at the same time. This was my first attempt at a multi-tiered cake. And of course, I went mini. I used a [...] Thursday, May 22, 2008
Hey Mom, I got a tattoo…… …… a tattoo cupcake just for you! I love you with all my heart. [...] Sunday, May 11, 2008
Wow Your Mom on Mother’s Day! Can’t decide on flowers or candy? Then give your mom both – and some cupcakes to boot. These cute candy flowers were inspired by fellow [...] Thursday, May 1, 2008

Patriotic

Red Velvet Cake After yesterday’s post, I thought it was only appropriate to follow up with the real thing. No purse this time. This is all cake. Velvety and yes [...] Monday, February 22, 2010
The Fourth Freedom, independence & a marine named Carlos. Last week I was trying to decide what kind of Fourth of July sweets to make or if I was even going to [...] Friday, July 3, 2009
A Sweet Reminder Tuesday’s a big day. And, hopefully we won’t have to stand in line as long as it took me to make these cake pops. Hmmmm, maybe I should just [...] Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Patriotic Pops Here are my basic cupcake pops sprinkled with a little red, white, and blue. Oh yeah, they’re red inside, too! Red jimmies, White non-pareils and [...] Thursday, July 3, 2008

St. Patrick's Day

Experi-mint-ing Dark Chocolate Mint Brownies. They look pretty good. Well, at this angle, they do. Made with bittersweet chocolate. About 10 ounces. And a whole bag [...] Monday, March 15, 2010
Red Velvet Revisited I wanted to try this Red Velvet recipe from the other day again for a few reasons: I had green food coloring and figured it would be fun for St. [...] Thursday, March 11, 2010
Bundt, what’s matcha? Matcha is what I used to make the marbled part of this bundt cake green. Matcha is a fine powdered green tea used in Japanese tea ceremonies or, in this [...] Tuesday, March 17, 2009
It’s no SHAM…these ROCK! You guessed it… Mint Oreo Truffles ummmmm… good. These might even be better than the originals (well, maybe). And, they’re just as easy to [...] Thursday, March 13, 2008

Summer Time

Paper Straws I bought the sweetest pink striped paper straws the other day and I couldn’t wait any longer to play with them. Every time I see striped straws [...] Sunday, January 9, 2011
Lei Time Just thought I’d say hi with a few Aloha Cupcakes. Hi there. Hello. Howdy. How ya doing? These are Pineapple Mango Cupcakes. All tropical like. [...] Monday, July 26, 2010
I scream, you scream, we all scream for… Ice Cream!!!!!!!!! Sorta. Kinda. Okay, not so much. These are all cake and candy impersonating cute little ice cream cones. The cool part is they [...] Monday, July 19, 2010
Burgers and Bees Bzzzzzzzz. Bees first. I did these a while back. They were some of my first attempts at turning cake pops into little creatures. Since doing them, [...] Monday, June 7, 2010
Cool off with Cool Whip! It’s been reeeeally hot outside lately, so I decided to try out a cool looking recipe that I’ve had lingering around for a while (since 2005 [...] Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Some like it hot… …and judging by how quickly this dessert disappeared, some like it cold, too. I’m talking about good, old-fashioned banana pudding, of course. [...] Monday, July 7, 2008
Pool Party Pops After celebrating the first day of summer at the beach, I thought today would be cool at the pool. Here are a few cupcake pops to mark day two of [...] Sunday, June 22, 2008
Bikini Beach Bears Well, today is the first day of summer and what could be better than going to the beach? A beach cupcake! That way, I don’t even have to get into [...] Saturday, June 21, 2008

Teacher Appreciation

Candy Apples Candy Apples… minus the apples. It’s back to school time already, so I thought I’d show you these super cute apple cake pops to celebrate. [...] Monday, August 10, 2009

Thanksgiving

Time for Pie With another Thanksgiving right around the corner, I figured it was finally time to make my first real pie crust instead of using one from the freezer [...] Monday, November 23, 2009
Not your kid’s cupcakes Something sweet and just a little bit saucy. The recipe for these cupcakes comes from one of my fave cookbooks, Bundt Classics. While the recipes are [...] Sunday, November 30, 2008
You’ll Want to Gobble These Right Up! I’ve been busy working on all kinds of cake pops lately. I think I’ve made close to 40 different variations so far. (Trying to put together [...] Monday, November 17, 2008
Pumpkin Pecan Chocolate Chunk Cookies With Maple Brown Butter Frosting Last month I asked you guys for your favorite cookies. I learned about a bunch that I had never heard of before. Among them, pumpkin chocolate chip [...] Monday, October 27, 2008

Valentine's Day

Cookie Molds I ordered some cookie molds a while back. Like two years back I think. And this weekend I finally used them. I didn’t use them to imprint the [...] Monday, January 30, 2012
Cupid’s Arrow Cupcakes I was in the mood to make some red velvet cupcakes this weekend. Red velvet cake is so pretty on it’s own, you really don’t need to do much [...] Monday, January 16, 2012
Kisses to you Big sweet kisses. Literally lips made of candy, cake and frosting. Can’t go wrong with that. I really hadn’t planned to make these. I was [...] Monday, February 14, 2011
Sweet Treats for the Fourteenth Looking for something sweet to make for Valentine’s Day? Below are links to a few things I’ve made in the past. Some for Valentine’s [...] Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Cake Pop Tags Anyone making cake pops for Valentine’s Day? Well, if you are, I have some cute tags you can download to add to your lollipop sticks. If you want [...] Sunday, January 30, 2011
Valentine’s Day Cake Pops I’ve already made some cake pops that look like conversation hearts, using pastel candy coatings and a heart-shaped cutter. They’re in my [...] Monday, January 24, 2011
Paper Straws I bought the sweetest pink striped paper straws the other day and I couldn’t wait any longer to play with them. Every time I see striped straws [...] Sunday, January 9, 2011
Blue makes me happy I made a cake and put it on a plate. A pretty blue glass plate that I ordered the other day. It came in this weekend so I decided it must be put to use [...] Monday, August 23, 2010
Red Velvet Cake After yesterday’s post, I thought it was only appropriate to follow up with the real thing. No purse this time. This is all cake. Velvety and yes [...] Monday, February 22, 2010
Vintage Valentine Cookies I decided a few of weeks ago, that I wanted to try to make some cookies using vintage Valentine cards as the theme. They are so sweet and the artwork is [...] Saturday, February 13, 2010
Big Love That’s what I feel for this oversized cookie. It’s the kind of love that involves brown sugar and it has everything to do with these little [...] Monday, February 8, 2010
Fourteen for the Fourteenth Fourteen Layer Cake. This is apparently a favorite at family get togethers in the South. Now, I’m from the South and I’ve never heard of such [...] Monday, February 16, 2009
Easy and Easier Valentine Treats If the Valentine’s Day Cake I made last week seemed like a little too much, then I think you’ll enjoy these. They require very little [...] Sunday, February 8, 2009
A Valentine’s Day Gift Box of… Cake… Yes, cake. The truffles… The box…all cake! Don’t believe me? Well keep reading and I’ll show you how to make this little Sweet [...] Monday, February 2, 2009
Cupcake Love Sometimes simple is just as sweet. I know I’m a little late posting these, but I thought I would share the recipe. It’s a really good cake [...] Sunday, February 17, 2008
For Valentine’s Day, give someone a big kiss! An Oreo Kiss, that is. So, if you have a chocolate lover on your hands, then try these tasty treats and their hands might just be all over you. Oreo [...] Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Have your roses, and eat them, too! Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, so I decided I would give myself roses. (The best kind … edible.) So I made these rose covered cupcakes. I [...] Sunday, February 10, 2008

Winter Time

Gingerbread Heads The season of giving will be upon us in just a few short days. I love December. People start baking and sharing sweets with friends and family … even [...] Monday, November 28, 2011
Milk Men I’m about to show you something really cute. Like super duper cute. Like one of the cutest things I’ve seen in a while. It’s so smart [...] Monday, January 3, 2011
Snowman Cake Pops I made these snowmen pops last year and just never got around to posting them. I think they are pretty darn cute. The black confetti sprinkles are [...] Monday, January 4, 2010
Sharing the love Here’s a cute set of snowcouple cupcakes. Hope you like them. They were fun to make. Except when I was trying to get them to hold that little candy [...] Thursday, January 10, 2008
There’s no business like snow business These little cupcakes went to the office today. And unfortunately for them, none returned home with me. I wanted to decorate something wintery since this [...] Tuesday, January 8, 2008

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Themes

Baby

Christmas

Easter

Father's Day

For Her

For Him

Graduation

Halloween

Mother's Day

Patriotic

St. Patrick's Day

Summer Time

Teacher Appreciation

Thanksgiving

Valentine's Day

Winter Time