This is one of my favorite things I have made recently...maybe ever: It's not much to look at, but it tastes fantastic. It's an appl...

Chocolate cupcakes with a chocolate ganache filling, vanilla buttercream, and a tiny marbled sable cookie on top. As an aside, almost all of...

Jason & I enjoyed our first Thanksgiving alone this year, which was seriously fantastic. Since I had to work the day before and the day ...

For breakfast on a lazy Thanksgiving morning, we had a Dutch Oven Pancake (also known as a Dutch Baby) with caramelized apples. I have very ...

Strawberries and cream cake for a baby shower, 12x24 inches. (And the berries weren't really black, somehow the color just came out that...

I spent the entire day at work creating these fairly ugly cakes. It was a little depressing to slave over something I didn't design and ...

Chocolate-Strawberry layer cake, alternating layers of chocolate and strawberry sponge with contrasting chocolate/strawberry buttercream. Th...

12" Red Velvet cake with cream cheese frosting: The car is a buttercream plaque. I'd never done it before and was pleasantly surpri...

I am still obsessed with polka dots. Et voila: Max is a "creative, sophisticated" three-year old. No cartoon characters for our da...

Two quickies from work: Banana Cake with Chocolate Sour Cream Frosting. Triple Strawberry Cake. Strawberry cake and with berry buttercream, ...

Poor neglected blog! I would promise to do better, but truthfully, you're second banana for the foreseeable future. In actual cake news...

A few years ago, a friend of my mom's mentioned that she used to buy Dragon Cookies around Chinese New Year. She was having trouble find...

Lately it's been alot of candy and not alot of cake (or death) at my house. I did take a brief break from all the confectionary-ing and ...

A VERY belated announcement about my latest venture. I'm writing the new About.com Guide to Candy . COME! Drool! Eat! Make candy of your...

I recently made two cakes for a luncheon honoring a baby blessing. The yellow cake was a 6" butter cake. The decoration is buttercream ...