This cake stood at 13″ tall, that’s pretty hefty for it’s 8″ diameter even though it still wasn’t completely in proportion to perfectly match the 16oz can we were replicating. Any taller though and it would have been dying to teeter over during transportation. It was a little scary carrying this one about due to [...]

Not everyone wants chocolate Easter eggs (really? where are these people?), it does get rather warm here early in the year so I imagine they melt pretty quickly if you let them. Why not try some of these egg cookies? They have a light refreshing lemon flavour and can be decorated in any range of [...]

So, I know I’m about a week late in posting a Halloween cake, but lets just ignore that and carry on shall we? This cake was a personal one, I made it for our Halloween party which is always a good time to test out recipes on our guinea pigs *ahem* friends! I initially had [...]

That time of year that calls for the mass genocide of that little bug called a crawfish is almost at an end. I’m going to leave the boil details to the Southern boy but I couldn’t let the event pass without making a little something. When we were buying king cake babies earlier in the [...]

We had a cake this weekend for a bridal shower, so we decided to squeeze in an extra post this week (hopefully – assuming I remember to post on Wednesday) to show it off.

Yes, we’re still with the Halloween goodies, get used to it, we’ve got at least another week of Halloween themed treats. I know, I know, any good blogger would have planned ahead and made them before the holidays so they could go up early and provide you lovely readers with inspiration.. Well, I never said [...]

Recently we acquired some new cookie cutters, one of which was the most adorable little tea cup, with a matching tea pot. Well, I just had to make something with them, the tea cups were so small, we thought about using them to top a cupcake.. But what cupcake would have a tea cup on [...]

For the local astronomical society we made a butter cake with English buttercream. Covered in fondant and airbrushed to resemble the night sky, with just the last hints of daylight on the horizon. The stars are pearl dragees and royal icing, for some variety in size, then we added some large stars on wires.