I can’t believe it’s September. The temps in Colorado have been dipping into the low 40s at night and we enjoyed some nice 70 degree days. Do you know what all that means??? IT’S FALL!!!! I make the monthly birthday cake for my ex-employer. They’re incredibly nice parting present when I quit in April!!! September [...]
Albert the Rooster was entered into the Denver County Fair in the Cake Decorating competition. I thought about creating a rooster cake the instant I saw the Fair flier with the little rooster head on it. A second reason I wanted to do a rooster was that Denver recently changed their ruling about allowing chickens [...]
So, I quit my “real” job. As I was letting my clients know that April 1 would be my last day as an environmental consultant, one client said it was great timing because she was hosting a baby shower in a few weeks and could use a cake. Sweet! I put the message that I’m [...]
We took our annual trip to Rock Creek Farms to get our Halloween pumpkins this year. We also picked up 3 pie pumpkins. The lady there said it’d take 2 pie pumpkins to make 2 pie. Well, we have 11 cups of pumpkin after processing them! Now, what to do with all that pumpkin! I [...]
Making a cake for my friend Jenny. She requested a black forest cake, a new recipe for me. For the cake: Betty Crocker Devils Food 1 box instant chocolate pudding 1 scoop of sour cream ~1/4 cup of flour 4 eggs oil & water per box For the filling and the syrup: I started with [...]
I have a friend who started selling jewelry and she has offered to take my cakes as a hostess gift to her parties. She wanted seasonal cakes so I thought I would try a pumpkin cake. Since it’s always easier to start with Duncan or Betty (Hines or Crocker that is), I used this recipe [...]
For a lunch at the construction site I’m working on, I contributed some cupcakes. The cupcake collage shows a prairie dog colony on the bottom right, silt fence going through, wetlands, and a stream. The Silt Fence was made out of fruit leather on toothpicks. Wetlands were used using green buttercream and a grass tip. [...]
I love Lemon Bars!! I don’t know why I’ve never tried to make them before but I finally tried my hand at them for New Year’s Eve. They were great and so very easy to make!! The recipe originated from Perfect Cookies, Cakes, and Chocolates but I altered it a bit (by accident). Cookie Base [...]
I made little dice cakes for a Bunko game I played over a friend’s house on Saturday. I made these more painful than they had to be. In the end, they came out pretty well. I used a yellow cake box mix cooked in a 13×9 pan. I trimmed it up the best I could. [...]
I was watching Everyday Italian with Giada De Laurentiis this morning and she had Chocolate-Orange cupcakes on for halloween. They looked yummy, so I thought I’d try them. The cupcake recipe calls for candied orange peel. Here’s her recipe for the orange peel: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/candied-orange-peel-recipe/index.html And her recipe for the cupcakes. It seems pretty easy. Using [...]