5 Tips for Decorating Your Own Wedding Cake

  Even though I am an experienced baker, I don’t enjoy decorating a cake with a decorator’s bag of icing.  I have the bags and the tips and have even taken a few classes.  I have tried to make myself like decorating a cake.   I just don’t like to do it.  I guess I would [...]

Easy Cake Recipes

I love to cook but I love to bake even more.  Baking is a hobby (bordering on obsession) for me.  If I didn’t eat most of it myself, I would bake something every day.   And I do love a good cake.  While I generally cook everything from scratch and try to avoid boxed mixes, my [...]

Chocolate Wedding Cake Recipe

  One of my favorite baking blogs is the King Arthur Flour’s “Baker’s Banter”.  If you’re looking to make your own chocolate wedding cake, take a look at this chocolate cake recipe:   Chocolate Wedding Cake Recipe This cake looks absolutely delicious!  And if you’re looking for a chocolate cake that LOOKS impressive, this one [...]

My Favorite Baking Pans

I have a favorite baking pan – one that I bought ages ago in a bakery supply house. I recently took a cake to a party in it and my brother-in-law asked, “Who brought the cake in the cool “old school” pan?. I didn’t realize that “old school” could be applied to bakeware but I [...]

Coconut Mania with Wedding Cake Recipes

We are very lucky to have a fabulous grocery store near us – Jungle Jim’s.  Actually, I don’t know that I should call it a grocery store.  It’s more of an experience.  They call it “a food lover’s paradise” and I must say that I agree.   It boasts to have over 6 acres of floor [...]

Handmade Wedding Items from Etsy

If you haven’t been to Etsy yet, you’re in for a real treat.  This site features all items that are handmade.  Here are just a few items to check out.  You may even find a great Wedding Cake Recipe lurking in there somewhere! Monogram cupcake toppers White Anemone Cake Topper “Couture Cake Toppers”

Wedding Cake Toppers that Make Your Cake Special

Your wedding cake topper can be a brilliant addition to a wedding cake you make yourself, and it may be the easiest part of the process!  When you make your own wedding cake you have so many choices as to what to put atop that cake.  Your florist can make an arrangement for the top [...]

A Great Way to Stretch your Wedding Budget – Wedding Cupcakes

We all know how easy it is to make cupcakes.  And if you are trying to get over the fear of making your own wedding cake you might want to consider making your own wedding cupcakes.   One of your first steps in choosing a wedding cake to make involves choosing and testing out your [...]

Wedding Cake Pans – Do You Have the Right Size?

In preparing to make your own wedding cake, one point you will have to consider is your cake pan size.  There are all kinds of pans – round, square, oval, etc., etc.  And they come in a range of sizes.    It may be easy to choose which cake pan shape you like but what [...]