I Heart Wedding Cakes

Here’s an idea for a cake that would just be adorable on your guest’s plate. These tasty little numbers can be filled with your choice of jams and/or lemon curd (which can be found at your local supermarket).   Make the cake ahead and cut into hearts.  Freeze the hearts (without filling) until the Big Day [...]

Solo Almond Bundt Cake

I recently found this recipe online and decided I would have to give it a try. The real reason I wanted to make it is because I have seen the Almond Filling in the supermarket so many times but had no idea who used it and what he/she would use it for. Kind of like [...]

A Lesson on How to Make Your Own Wedding Cake

  If you’re looking for some great tips and information on the how to make your own wedding cake, this is a fabulous video.  These ladies show it all – from the wedding cake recipe, to the frosting of the cake, to the decorating.  The wedding cake recipe and frosting recipe they use are included [...]

Whimsical Wedding Cakes You Can Make

Who says a wedding cake can’t be whimsical?  Get a load of these fun and funky wedding cake ideas…   Are you a Twinkie Lover?  Get on over to the Hostess Site for the directions for this cutie pie!     And for the Super Mario lovers of the world, a Mario wedding cake.   [...]

Nordic Ware and the Mini Cake Pan

I was Christmas shopping at Target (back in December) and found the greatest Bundt cake pan.  It was a ring of Christmas trees.  I don’t know if I would have been so thrilled to have found this except that I had recently admired a cake made using that same pan at a nearby Italian restaurant.  [...]

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 [...]

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