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March Madness Personalized Basketball Cookies!

26 Wednesday Feb 2014

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basketball cookies, iced cookies, meringue powder buttercream, sugar cookies

Here we go…Get those brackets filled out!!  My kids’ seasons on the hardwood are winding down and what better way to wrap ’em up than with personalized frosted sugar cookies!

These buttery vanilla cookies have a hint of lemon and are frosted with a smooth meringue powder buttercream. This icing is like a royal icing in that it hardens on top and seals in freshness, but stays soft in the middle and tastes great!  (Note the tiny indents made by hungry little fingers before they were completely dry :0).

I’m going to make more for the teams with each player’s name and jersey number, then bag them up for the end of season party.

You had a great season, Dragons and Cobras!!  Loved watching you play :0)

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White Chocolate Raspberry Cupcakes

16 Sunday Feb 2014

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custom packaging, Personalized packaging, White Chocolate Raspberry Cupcake, white chocolate raspberry mousse filling, White chocolate swiss meringue frosting, White velvet cake

There’s nothing quite as sweet for your Sweetheart as a beautiful, velvety vanilla cupcake filled with luscious white chocolate raspberry mousse and topped with creamy white chocolate Swiss meringue buttercream!  Add a dainty fondant heart and some sprinkles for the perfect way to say “I love you,” and not  just on Valentine’s Day.  Think birthday, bridal shower, wedding…any time you want a special sweet surprise!  And did I mention that white chocolate raspberry is my new favorite flavor combination…But aren’t they ALL “my new favorite”?

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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Pink Velvet Cupcakes!!

16 Sunday Feb 2014

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Here’s a new fun flavor for Valentine’s Day or any time you want a smile–Pink Velvet! I worked on this recipe for awhile and finally decided that a velvet cake with white chocolate and raspberries was the perfect combo.  I sent these minis to school with my kids for various Valentine parties this week, so fun!  Filled with white chocolate raspberry mousse and topped with creamy princess-flavored buttercream and sprinkles (essential!)–the kids gobbled them up!

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Cut-Out Sugar Cookies with Poured Icing

16 Sunday Feb 2014

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These cute cutout cookies are a rich, buttery sugar cookie topped with poured-on vanilla icing.  The icing not only tastes great, but–unlike buttercream–hardens in a few hours so cookies can be stacked or packaged as gifts. Customize your shape and color and add some sprinkles for any occasion!

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Gravity-Defying “Stack of Pancakes” Cake

06 Thursday Feb 2014

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Ok, I’ll admit, this cake is a little outside of the box, even for me!  But one does occasionally get tired of baking and decorating cupcakes and yearns to use her engineering background to really “construct” a cake!

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Actually, the kids needed a cake for a cake competition at school, so I took advantage of yet another Snow Day (and a great blog site) and we made this together.  After much discussion amongst my youngsters about whether to do a football-themed cake (and which team), a princess cake, a mermaid cake, blah, blah, blah….I made the command decision, called them all into the kitchen and said “we’re going to make THIS one–together.”

In case you’re wondering, the stack of “pancakes” is actually a 6″ diameter chocolate cake with strips of ivory colored fondant wrapped around it and painted with watered-down food coloring to look like pancakes.  There is one big fondant pancake on top.   (Amazing how much fondant and food coloring look like pancakes, huh?)  The chocolate sauce bottle is held up on a balloon stick bent at 45-degrees and covered with more brown fondant to look like chocolate syrup, with more brown fondant “dripping” down the sides.  The butter is made from softened starburst and laffy taffy candies.   The base cake is a 10-inch square layer cake covered with fondant to look like a table cloth.  If you’re wondering where I got this idea, I must credit Ann Reardon of “How to Cook That,” a great baking blog site….she makes everything look so easy!

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The kids did get into it and helped me bake the cakes and make and color the fondant (their favorite treat).  We all attempted to model a fork out of fondant (and picked the best one to be on the cake) and my little painter girl helped paint the pancake layers.  It really did come out great and seems amazing if you don’t know how it’s done.  The kids (and parents) at school really got a kick out of it.  So very whimsical!

Don’t know if I’ll make it again (unless someone wants a wacky birthday cake or something), but it was a kick to put it all together and see the final results…And it was nice to finally get to use my degree!

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About Me

Life is crazy and I love to bake. I'm a wife, mother of 3 nutty kids, and an admitted sugar-holic. Ten years ago I left my job as a senior consulting engineer in Salt Lake City, UT, to get out of the rat race and raise kids. We up and moved to a quiet, small town in NE Ohio to be near family and bought a 180-yr-old historic home, always a dream of mine. Along the way, I discovered my joy of baking, which allows both my engineering side and my oft-suppressed creative side to emerge. It began with the desire to bake birthday cakes for my kids (I hated to buy them) and has blossomed into a cupcake-baking business for a local bakery. Over the years, many people have asked if I take orders. So, here they are. Check out the site, we'll be adding new cupcake flavors weekly as well as the occasional cake. And in case you're wondering about the name, it's an homage to the big, old gray barn in my back yard. What a bonus, it came with the house! Put on a smile and BAKE!

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