Fresh figs are another item that are so rare in this world (Colorado) that when you find them, you RUN – don’t walk – to the market and gather as many as you can. You consume, conspire, and create with the fresh figs in every way. And you bake a vanilla layer cake, slathering with…
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Can you imagine anything MORE decadent?Well, if you have a foodie imagination, I’m guessing you probably can – chocolate would most likely be involved. But, for today, we have a perfected pie crust, layered with sea salted caramel sauce, topped with a layer of sweetened cream cheese, another layer of Bonne Maman (the BEST) Wild…
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While lemon isn’t typically a fall harvest or Halloween flavor, it certainly is tasty!Enjoy this super simple white lemon loaf cake, with layers of vanilla buttercream frosting, and festive orange sprinkles for your pre-trick-or-treating Halloween snack!! 🧡🎃👻💀🕷
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One of my dearest friends mentioned to me how she’d love to bring treats to her pottery pals once classes reconvened in the summer. ☀️I remembered that comment, and the “re-inception” date.Thus, I decided to create that very morning – something sunny, something cheerful, and something delicious to share! Lemon Vanilla Cardamom Pear Cupcakes Lots…
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Not to be confused with Pinkberry FROYO – I was commissioned to bake a “gender reveal” cake for a friend of a friend. OMG – it SO excites me when I’m asked or invited (or whatever) to bake, cook, create …It makes “my day, my week, my month, and even my year!”So, the “gender reveal…”…
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Everyone deserves a little (or a lot) of rainbow 🌈 and magic in their life – especially this time of year! 🐣🐰💐Easter is magical – it’s springtime – colors are blossoming – and the sunshine ☀️ is inevitably on the way! Sweets are called for, of course. Vanilla Rainbow Cake – Easter celebration cake! Despite…
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Another order came my way.Can you believe this!!!!!!!!It’s January. It’s wintery.We still need those warming spicy flavors, with a hint of vanilla orange creamsicle, right? My favorite thing about these Winter Vanilla Orange Cinnamon Nutmeg Cupcake treats is that they all look DIFFERENT. They are uniquely beautiful in all 12 ways. (The recipe makes 12…
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Outstanding smooth peanut butter – vanilla – graham flavor, pillowy soft crumb, and creamy vegan vanilla buttercream – I’m in heaven.My two favorite afternoon treats, as a child were: graham cracker Jif peanut butter sandwiches AND/OR graham cracker vanilla frosting sandwiches. They are both phenomenal. And, NOW, they are married into one – but also…
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It’s another surprise cake – or a “cake-yata” (like a piñata, but with easy slicing instead of hearty bashing). I baked this cake as a belated birthday surprise cake for my darling, riveting, Rylee-Roo.This year, my niece, experienced her 14th birthday in quarantine. We held a Zoom call party, but it simply wasn’t the same….
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Completely outlandish, utterly too decadent, and perhaps over the top artsy for a one-year-old birthday smash cake, but hey – that’s me. It may look a little ridiculous – but the cakes are tasty and too fun to “smash” on you and your twin’s first birthday together! Strawberry Pineapple Vanilla Smash Cake Strawberry Pineapple Vanilla…
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