December is always a rush of holiday orders. With cookies and confections I only offer at Christmas time like chocolate covered peanut butter balls and cream puffs, this year I had more birthday cakes than usual, five in all. One was a very special, a 95th birthday for a man I have admired since IContinue reading “December Cakes – Step by Step Cute Snowman Cake”
Category Archives: Baking
White Bread Recipe Step By Step
This recipe is for a basic white bread. This dough can be used as a base for just about anything. Add raisins and you have raisin bread, add blueberries and cinnamon brown sugar and roll it and you have a wonderful breakfast bread or braid it and top it with pepperoni and cheese and youContinue reading “White Bread Recipe Step By Step”
From Pumpkin to Pie
Another frustrating item missing from the shelves this fall has been pumpkin puree. The kind of pumpkin used in sweet breads, pies and cookies. The shortage is not due to the pandemic but due to the wet growing season last year. While waiting for pumpkin supplies to replenish in the grocery stores I for theContinue reading “From Pumpkin to Pie”
Home Delivery
Not sure if I have mentioned this before but along with doing cakes again I also offer home delivery of baked goods every Wednesday. This option was a big part of my bakery business almost 10 years ago and as you can imagine very popular with customers. A few months ago I put out aContinue reading “Home Delivery”
Doing Cakes Again
I have been baking and decorating cakes professionally for almost 20 years! The trends have changed over the years and continue to change. Some I have embraced and some I would rather not do lol! I stopped offering cakes for about a year because honestly I was burned out. I needed to take a stepContinue reading “Doing Cakes Again”
Decorated Halloween Layer Cake
My sister and her husband had their annual, epic, Halloween party this past weekend and for the dessert contest I brought a Halloween themed cake. I used a 10″ double layer chocolate cake and split each layer which gave me room for 3 layers of different colored filling. The first layer I split with aContinue reading “Decorated Halloween Layer Cake”
Eight Steps to a Beautiful White, Blueberry Filled, Cream Cheese Frosted, Drip Cake
A couple of months ago I popped an unfrosted cake into the freezer to use for later and forgot about it. I came across it while I was looking for something else in the freezer and thought I would bring it out to have it as dessert last night. Cream cheese frosting sounded better thanContinue reading “Eight Steps to a Beautiful White, Blueberry Filled, Cream Cheese Frosted, Drip Cake”
Pretty Little Cakes
To kick off our busy season in the bakery department, I had a wedding cake and a gender reveal cake to bake this weekend. Both pretty little cakes. I predict a busy summer in our future! -MM
Easter Fun
Easter and Spring are such fun when it comes to crafts and baking. I love bright spring colors of greens, blues, yellows, pinks and lavenders after the dark colors of winter like reds, blacks, navy and grays. Even though Doug is 15 he still likes to craft (once in a while) so I bring outContinue reading “Easter Fun”
How to Decorate Christmas Cutouts
For almost a decade I have been decorating Christmas cutouts with colorful glazes and a piping bag. Traditionally, cutouts are decorated using royal icing and a technique known as “flooding”. Flooding is time consuming, tedious and very tiring on your poor fingers and hands. I decorate hundreds of dozens of Christmas cutouts every year andContinue reading “How to Decorate Christmas Cutouts”
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