Posts from ‘October, 2009’

In honor of Halloween, I want to share my latest sweet treat with you!
I’d been wanting to play around with some more of the recipes from the book “Hello, Cupcake“, so I headed to the candy aisle in Target to load up on decorating supplies.
Once I had purchased everything, it needed to be sorted by [...]

I am very excited, because tonight I get to meet one of my blogging heroines, the one and only Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond! I’ve been following her blog for a couple of years now and this week she begins her book tour to celebrate her new cookbook! I will be going to Full Circle Bookstore [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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There’s something fantastic about adding real fruit to a recipe. And with Blue Blueberry N Cream Cupcakes, you start with a cup of frozen, defrosted blueberries.

Then you cream together the butter and sugar, add the juicy berries, [...]

Back in January, I had the honor of making a shower cake for my dear friend Crystal, who was expecting her first child, a baby-girl she and her husband named Lynley Kate.
For the color scheme, I stuck with the hues Crystal had selected for Lynley’s nursery: raspberry pink, brown, and two shades of green.
Polka dots [...]

Back when I was in college, I bought this book at a thrift store in Savannah, GA:

At first, I was drawn to the retro illustrations and the analogous color scheme.

Equally as amazing as the dust cover illustrations were the illustrations that had been stamped (or done on a letterpress, perhaps) into the hard cover.

And though [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Last month, I offered to donate cupcakes to an event. Since I wanted them to have a nice variety of flavors (and because I promised myself I’d make all 113 recipes in the book), I decided to [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Much like the Jelly-Filled Cupcakes, I had some difficulties juggling the baking AND the photographing of this batch. I guess that’s what I get for making four kinds of cupcakes at one time! However, they [...]

Not too long ago, my niece Sadie asked her mom why we have noses. Ali replied, “So we can smell things. What’s your favorite smell?” To which Sadie replied, “Pink!”
The girl couldn’t be more right! For her past two birthdays, “pink” has been the only guidance I’ve been given in regards to her cake. Today [...]

My friend Lisa Branson contacted me shortly after I wrote this post and asked me to make a correspondence book. Lisa and her husband Chris are best friends with the Blanchards, who moved to California a couple years ago. The families have done a great job of keeping in touch, and Lisa wanted a book [...]

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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Sometimes, you get really busy baking and filling cupcakes with jelly and frosting them while also trying to perfectly time three other batches in and out of the oven AND trying to photograph the whole process from [...]