Posts filed under: Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing

Well, we’ve graduated from Minecraft Cakes to Fortnite Cakes over here. It was my nephew’s 10th birthday on Easter Sunday, so our festive holiday dessert was a V Bucks Birthday Cake. I don’t know anything about Fortnite (except randomly that there are celebratory dances in it?!) but my brother and nephew explained that V Bucks......
It was my brother’s birthday last week, and I wanted to make a special treat for him and his fam. This doesn’t take any special brainstorming because they all absolutely love Lemon Meringue Pie. I wanted to put a bit of a twist on it though, and decided to make a cupcake version. I briefly......
I wanted to make my new co-workers a St. Patrick’s Day treat, and I knew right away that I would make these cupcakes. There are already a couple iterations of this Guiness chocolate cake with Baileys frosting in the archives; the first was a simple one layer cake, and the second was a super-hydrated bundt......
We had a big fundraising event at work last week, and the following day, an email went out about some leftover items for sale. I wasn’t really interested until I saw the last line: LEMONS AND LIMES FREE TO A GOOD HOME. I remembered this Lemon Lemon Loaf was on our agenda for today, and......
Does this cake look familiar? My niece’s request for her birthday cake this year was awfully similar to last year, with one exception: WINGS. Did you know a Unicorn with wings was called an Alicorn? I sure didn’t, and when I asked “Isn’t that a Pegasus?” I was swiftly corrected: “No Auntie Robyn, a Pegasus......
I consider myself to be a banana bread expert. No recipe in the world will ever live up to the banana bread my Mom made when I was growing up, which is perfect in every way. Since I already know I’ll never find a better recipe, I have a lot of fun trying BB variations......
When it comes to my birthday cake, there are four main food groups I’m interested in: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cookies & Cream Funfetti, also known as RAINBOW BIT I recently made my niece a Chocolate Peanut Butter Mega Cake, so I wasn’t feeling that this year.  Plus I made this......
Does everyone out there know about FUNEMPLOYMENT?  I’m sure there are a few definitions, but for my purposes, funemployment is the space of time between finishing at one job and starting at a new one, when you have no responsibilities and can totally luxuriate in your jobless state, but with the safety net of knowing that......
Yesterday was my niece’s 11th birthday, and her birthday request was a Reese’s Cake she saw online (shout out Lizzy T). I took that idea and ran with it, using inspiration from Yo’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Mega Cake to create this beauty. Here’s how I did it: Baked up the quickest and easiest Chocolate Cake recipe......
Do you remember the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? I totally remember reading this as a kid, and it still holds up today, because it’s one of my friend Francis Levi’s favourite books! Francis’ mom, my friend Nicole, asked me to make a Brown Bear cake for his 2nd birthday party......