This year was full of weddings (and one "wedding") and of course, my birthday! First up was Jenessa and Mike's on July 4th weekend: lovely summery cake with all of those sunflowers! After that, in the middle of August was my sister and...

I bought a bundt cake pan the other day, so it was time to test it out. I got the recipe from allrecipes.com. It's a good site, especially because it has a calculator right on the screen. Just put in the number of servings, and it re-calculates...

...not the drunk kind, but the gooey, marshmallowy kind. I got a bag of marshmallows sent to me as part of a birthday present from my mom, and they were all stuck together, so I needed something to do with them, and I couldn't just eat them out of the...

Since I haven't worked in a bakery, or have done any cake decorating since I graduated school, I decided it was time to practice my piping skills again. So, I made some cupcakes to give me a nice "canvas" for my decorating skills. I only had a...

One of my favorite combos would be cookies and ice cream, so to make a sandwich with them is just fabulous. Whoever thought of the ice cream sandwich gets a gold star in my book! We made the cookies from scratch, using the first chocolate chip cookie...