May was my first month as part of the Daring Bakers group, and what an introduction! Our challenge this month was to make an opera cake. Opera cakes usually involve thin layers of sponge cake alternating with chocolate or coffee buttercream and mousse, but the challenge specified “no dark colors or flavors,” so I decided…

Last week was Cake Week at work: I had just a few days to create and design a new cake menu for our wholesale and catering books. We’ll still do lots of custom cakes, but these are our new standard offerings, with apologies for the poor lighting and ugly set-up: Carrot cake Triple Chocolate Coconut…

I was creating a tutorial on using chocolate transfer sheets for the website yesterday, so I made a little cake to demonstrate on. Since it was only for show I didn’t want to spend much time making it, so I used a cake mix and a new easy frosting recipe. (Side note: not to be…

Jason & I enjoyed our first Thanksgiving alone this year, which was seriously fantastic. Since I had to work the day before and the day after, we figured traveling or hosting would be too overwhelming. In addition to the obvious benefits of not having hosting duties (didn’t shower till 2pm, yesssss) I was also free…