Whatever was lying around

Some co-workers from our Vegas office are visiting this week and they have been heavily hinting that it's about time I deliver on all my...

50,000 Cupcakes for Maryland Day!!!

Maryland Day - the University of Maryland's annual open house - is 10 years old! We're baking with 50,000 cupcakes to celebrate - a...

Soundtrack

My sister found the perfect soundtrack song for this site. I can't really have it play in the background, but if you want to hear it, cl...

It's About Time for Some Cupcake Bling!

You just have to love this bracelet!!! I'm not going to say too much about it...but just look at the detail. When I wear it to work, eve...

Happy Cupcakes

For my birthday, my sister bought me the cutest little tray ever, but up until now I have not had a good opportunity to use it. So when my c...

Tower of Tarts

I bought a whole bunch of little tartlet molds and an event at work was the first chance I got to use them. I made two different kinds: lemo...

New Year Cake

I've been meaning to try the "ice cream cone cake" for a while, so when my sister asked me to make a cake for her New Year'...

Caramel Apple Cupcakes

I made these little guys for my friends baby shower. They are apple cupcakes with caramel on top. Kind of like a caramel apple, but better s...

Happy 2nd Birthday Josh!

I made this cake for my nephew's 2nd birthday. He loves cars, so I made a cake that he can play with. And since the road is chocolate ga...

All You Need is Love...and a Few Cupcakes!

The kids went to a couple of weddings this weekend...one in Binghamton, NY, and one on Amelia Island in Florida...this inspired me to look i...

Marshmallows!!!

I am going to spend the next three weeks making these. They were a blast to make and I've been passing them out for the past week and af...

I love waterlilies

I've taken probably hundreds of waterlily pictures at the botanic garden, so when my mom asked me to make a cake for her friend's da...

Chocolate Filigree Windmill

This was another ordered cake that I used to experiment with making chocolate decorations. It's interesting all the things you can make ...

Peach Butts :)

I got a new cookbook by the retired White House pastry chef and the cutest thing in there were these brioche peaches. I made some modificati...

Thanksgiving

It's not really cake, but this was the most fun I've ever had making "Apple Pie". I have a couple of cookbooks that are pu...

Cake: best part of being a pirate

I made this my friend's birthday...he is a pirate captain of his very own ship shaped bar that he built with some of my other friends. I...

Sunflowers

I've realized that since I bring all of my experiments to work, that's where all my customers come from :) One of my other co-worker...

Design from Martha

This was actually my second try at this cake...for some reason the pictures from the first one didn't come out too well. The first one w...

One Day + Two Events = Twin Cakes

Last year one of my friends and co-workers got married...on my birthday. Since at work I'm considered the cake lady, she asked me to mak...

Sand Castle

I made this cake for my bosses son's 6th birthday. They had a beach theme so I thought this would be perfect. I made a chocolate cake wi...

Strawberries And Cream

I wanted to make a light mousse like frosting using white chocolate, and what goes better with that then fresh strawberries? This was a birt...

Fun with Colors

Since I had already bought the separator plates for that wedding cake, I had to justify the cost by using it again and so I made this little...

Irish Wedding

Next up we have the very first wedding cake I've ever attempted. My very first attempt at a cake this size and even though my kitchen lo...

The Fabulous Pie

I'd like to catch this blog up to speed since I'm pretty proud of my past experiments and although I can't really start with the...

The Bees are in Danger!

Okay, don't laugh, but there is a bee crisis and we must all help out here or else we'll be out more then just honey! So go forth a...

My Very First Post EVER!

Hi all, Welcome to my brand new, hot off the press blog! I know that right now this looks very sad and lonely, but in no time at all this si...