Baketastic!

I have a best friend, his name is Brody.  Brody just happens to be a Chocolate Labrador Retriever.  The coolest Lab I’ve ever known, and he’s my pal.  I got him as a birthday gift from my Sister when he was 6 weeks old.  He is going to be the big 4 this June 3rd.
We’ve [...]

I love to bake, but you guys already know that.  What you don’t know is that I love potatoes.  Forrest Gump’s shrimp love “ain’t got shit” on my potato love.  Potato chips, potatoes au gratin, raw potatoes (yes, I’ll even take a few bites when I’m cutting or peeling them for cooking), french fries, tator [...]

A friend of mine is having a birthday party for her son, he’ll be the big 1!  He’ll be needing cowboy cookies for his cowboy pals so I came up with these Deputy Badges.  Sugar cookie stars frosted with royal icing, Kopykakes writing, gold dragees and dusted with edible gold dust.  They were a bit [...]

Damn, she strikes again.  I tried not to do it.  I decided not to bake anything today, not to join in the drinking and debauchery in the local pubs.  Alas, I failed.
I caved.  I baked some wonderously delicious Chocolate Guinness Stout cupcakes, filled with red raspberry and topped with vanilla buttercreme – green, of course.
INGREDIENTS [...]

(Kiss me, I’m Irish)
It’s that time of year again, Lasses and Lads, St. Patrick’s Day.  Although that is “La Fheile Padraig” to those that actually know how to speak Gaelic (myself not included, thanks Dad).  Irish-American immigrants brought Saint Patrick’s Day to the United States. The first civic and public celebration of Saint Patrick’s Day [...]

Captain, Captain, there are sharks afin!
This weekend my nieces visited and we worked together on a great cupcake project.  Shark Attack cupcakes.  We started off with a basic vanilla cake recipe and then added some red food coloring to make the cake look gory like blooooooooood…    Ewwwwwwwwwww.  And, scaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrry!
For the frosting we added blue to [...]

After having been sick for the last week and a half, I decided to bake something fun, for myself, as a bit of “feel better” non-medicine.  I decided on the following recipe which I altered from the original found in my 100 Best Cupcake Recipes book – Tropical Luau Cupcakes.  Although the recipe calls for [...]

I found out the hard way, again, not to do business with friends.  I made a cake for a friend quite some time ago who still has yet to pay me for it.  Not half, not some, all of it.  The client did not pay a single penny.
Now, I am torn between the fact that [...]