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I’m about to start baking a doghouse cake (carrot cake with cream cheese icing…which should make decorating all kinds of fun), and make chocolate dog and bone for Igor’s birthday. And like any impossible task, I have to try and get the whole thing done before he gets out of school. I’m apparently [...]

Well, I didn’t get a picture of the absolutely finished cake, because of cake vandals but here’s pictures of the BeeDay cake as it neared completion:

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The recipe was a butter chai spice cake with vanilla cream [...]

So, today’s cake was an orange spice cake with buttercream roses and rosettes.
The roses looked way better before I stupidly put the cake cover on the top without realizing that the cake was tall enough that the roses would hit the cover.  So…I had to sort of poof the roses up a little with a [...]

So…my bears didn’t work out too well. My frosting wasn’t stiff enough, and they sort of drooped over and looked sad and gloppy. Well, who wants to eat a giant glob of frosting anyway? So. No bears. But, the marzipan bees are adorable. So, I just added flowers, and [...]

So this week, I was practicing with star tips and pastry bags and I made a Curious George cake. (Because Igor loves both Curious George and cake.)

I’ve also been experimenting with different truffle recipes, trying to decide which of them I may enter in a candy contest.
This week; white chocolate, pistachio, [...]