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Humpty Dumpty Eggstravaganza Remember these little guys I showed you how to make last week? Pretty cute, huh? They were for a baby shower my friend Cupcake Julie threw and now I [...] Monday, April 1, 2013

Humpty Dumpty Cake Pops I made some egg cake pops! They’re really cute … But they’re not for Easter. Instead I made happy little Humpty Dumpty Cake Pops for a baby [...] Monday, March 25, 2013

Bunny Cake Pops I’m a little behind on posting this week. I started making the sweetest cake pops on Sunday and had to detour from photographing them so I could [...] Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Beary cute macarons I finally decided to try to make macarons again. I made these last weekend as a possibility for Jenny’s virtual baby shower and halfway through I [...] Monday, August 27, 2012

Baby Faces I made Baby Face Cake Pops for someone special today. Her name is Jenny and she’s about to have a baby boy. Her third. She’s also giving [...] Monday, August 20, 2012

Bluebird Cake Pops Chirp! Chirp! I had wanted to make these bluebird cake pops around Easter, but I decided on these bunny cake pops instead. I sketched out my birdie [...] Monday, May 14, 2012

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

Sweet Holiday Treats Who’s baking for the holidays right now? Who’s going to be baking over the next few days? And who’s over baking already? Not me. I [...] Friday, December 21, 2012

Peppermint Candy Sugar Cookies Happy National Cookie Day! I thought I’d remind just you in case you needed an excuse to enjoy a cookie today. These bite-size sugar cookies are [...] Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Red Hot Holidays I’m excited to share some cute new snowman cake pops with you guys today. I made them for my friend Betty. As in Crocker. As in cra-zee! I was [...] Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Behind the Scenes: Cake Pops Holidays Book Trailer My new book Cake Pops Holidays is coming out soon. Yay! And last month, we shot a book trailer for it in San Francisco. It involved cake pops of course. [...] Thursday, September 27, 2012

Christmas in July I have a surprise to share. I haven’t said anything before now, but I’ve been busy dipping. Dipping and rolling and crumbling. And creating [...] Monday, July 16, 2012

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 this. (Here’s [...] 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 any [...] 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

Bunny Cake Pops I’m a little behind on posting this week. I started making the sweetest cake pops on Sunday and had to detour from photographing them so I could [...] Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Bluebird Cake Pops Chirp! Chirp! I had wanted to make these bluebird cake pops around Easter, but I decided on these bunny cake pops instead. I sketched out my birdie [...] Monday, May 14, 2012

Chocolate Easter Bunnies I’ve been playing today. Just having a little fun with some candy molds. Bunnies, ducks, lambs and eggs and all on one mold. Too cute. The molds on [...] Saturday, April 7, 2012

Almost Easter Easter is next weekend and I am way behind on making spring sweets. I’m hoping to post something again before Sunday, but in the meantime I hope [...] Monday, April 2, 2012

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

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 seen [...] 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

Butterfly cupcakes and some fun news Is it too early for spring? I hope not because I want to tell you about these cute butterfly cupcakes. They’re decorated with candy coating and a [...] Monday, March 5, 2012

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 drooling [...] 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 name. [...] 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 the [...] 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 the [...] 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

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… that [...] 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 found [...] 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

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 anyone [...] Monday, May 4, 2009

Happy Halloweenie! Halloween is just a few days away, but I want to share one more cake pop creation with you guys. I made these Sparky pops for Disney’s new website [...] Sunday, October 28, 2012

Candy Corn and Spider Web Cake Pops Can I interest you in some candy corn? These aren’t my favorite candy to eat, but for Halloween there’s nothing more iconic. So I thought it [...] Monday, October 22, 2012

Itty-Bitty Bat Cupcakes These are cute little guys. Bite-size! When I made homemade kitty cat oreos the other day, I thought the set of cutters I used might come in handy again. [...] Monday, October 15, 2012

Boo! I set out to make a few fun Halloween cake pops Sunday. I baked cake, crumbled it, mixed it with frosting, rolled into balls and then molded them into [...] Monday, October 1, 2012

Homemade Oreos I made some cookies yesterday from one of the cookbooks I’ve been wanting to dig into. Home. Made. Oreos. And all Halloween like with orange creme [...] Monday, September 17, 2012

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 ya. [...] 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 spirit. [...] 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 with… And [...] Thursday, November 1, 2007

Bluebird Cake Pops Chirp! Chirp! I had wanted to make these bluebird cake pops around Easter, but I decided on these bunny cake pops instead. I sketched out my birdie [...] Monday, May 14, 2012

Butterfly cupcakes and some fun news Is it too early for spring? I hope not because I want to tell you about these cute butterfly cupcakes. They’re decorated with candy coating and a [...] Monday, March 5, 2012

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

Festive for the Fourth Here’s a quick and easy idea for the Fourth of July. Like super easy. And a fun little way to make your cupcakes look extra special without too [...] Monday, June 11, 2012

Snow Cones These snow cones won’t melt. Nope. They’re not icy… but they are frosted. They’re snow cone cupcakes and they were a lot of fun to [...] Monday, May 21, 2012

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

Magic Munch I made some munchies for you. Have you tried Christmas Crunch before? It’s sometimes called Christmas Crack or White Trash. I know, not the nicest [...] Monday, March 11, 2013

Rainbow Bright Cupcakes March is here and this weekend I thought I would work on something cute and sweet for St. Patrick’s Day. Shamrocks, leprechauns, pots of gold, [...] Tuesday, March 5, 2013

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 of [...] 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

Have a ball I hope you guys are enjoying the summer so far. Whether you’re heading to the beach, the pool, the sofa or somewhere else, I hope your summer is [...] Monday, July 9, 2012

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 summer. [...] 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 a [...] Saturday, June 21, 2008

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

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 a [...] 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

Mini ways to say Happy Valentine’s Day! I made mini and many cake pops for you this past weekend. I had this idea I wanted to try just using basic round pops and color to make a sweet little [...] Thursday, February 14, 2013

Give Love Cake Pops Candy Hearts. These don’t just make cute little ears for puppy dog cupcakes, they can also be used to make perfect little bows. Bows on top of [...] Monday, February 11, 2013

More Minis Puppy Love … mini cupcakes decorated with pink and red heart sprinkles for little ears and noses. I love using sprinkles and candies to make faces. [...] Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Play Food I made some tiny sugar cookie sugar cookies for you. Tee-niny! Yes, I love little and I kinda like to play with my food… But I’m sure you know [...] Monday, January 28, 2013

Chocolate Peanut Butter Truffles So truffles are like really easy. And as it turns out completely beautiful without even one single colorful confetti sprinkle or jumbo red candy heart [...] Monday, January 14, 2013

Cha Cha Chocolate Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a super last minute idea or more likely – an early idea for next year. Just something quick and cute. And [...] Tuesday, February 14, 2012

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

More Minis Puppy Love … mini cupcakes decorated with pink and red heart sprinkles for little ears and noses. I love using sprinkles and candies to make faces. [...] Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Sweet Holiday Treats Who’s baking for the holidays right now? Who’s going to be baking over the next few days? And who’s over baking already? Not me. I [...] Friday, December 21, 2012

Red Hot Holidays I’m excited to share some cute new snowman cake pops with you guys today. I made them for my friend Betty. As in Crocker. As in cra-zee! I was [...] Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Christmas in July I have a surprise to share. I haven’t said anything before now, but I’ve been busy dipping. Dipping and rolling and crumbling. And creating [...] Monday, July 16, 2012

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