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Posts from ‘January, 2010’

#18: Chocolate Hazelnut Cupcakes with Chocolate Hazelnut Spread

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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I had no idea how much people love this stuff:

From the moment I mentioned that I was going to be making Chocolate Hazelnut cupcakes, I got several emails from friends and family offering to take them off [...]

Who Wrote The Book Of Love?

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, it’s time to start considering a thoughtful, handmade gift for your sweetie. ((I can help!))
Two years ago, I made this book for my (then) boyfriend, who is now my husband!…not that the book caused that transition, mind you, but I’m sure it didn’t hurt either.
It was a [...]

Giveaway Time!

I’ve had this huge roll of amazing black and white paper for a few years. Although I’d brainstormed about it, I’d never made the time to turn it into a book. I finally got the chance to do so when my friend Cindy Beall asked me to be a part of her “Week of Awesomeness”, [...]

Spider-Man Cake

I think we’d all admit that no kid’s birthday is complete without a theme cake, right?
Well, who better to help you turn this age…

…than this superhero?!

Amy contacted me for some party/gift giving help. 1: she wanted to have a custom journal made for a gift. 2: her son was turning four and only likes Spider-Man. [...]

Legacy Journals

This past Fall, I was flooded with orders for personalized journals. It was great fun to be so involved in so many people’s gift-giving for 2009!
I got a great email from a woman I’d never met before. Her name is Peggy and she wrote: “My children are grown and married [...] for Christmas I want [...]

#113: Aunt Florence’s Frozen Lemon Cupcakes

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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This is one of those ‘cupcake’ recipes that isn’t cake at all. But it’s in the book, so go with it. I did.

Want to know the trick to getting lots of things done in the kitchen in [...]

Girlie Guitar

A couple years ago, I made a 1st birthday cake with a Rockstar theme. I recently got a request to do another guitar cake–for a girl this time–a girl that was having a Hannah Montana party.
Naturally, after being cut to the correct shape, girls’ cakes start with a base coat of pink icing:

I added details [...]

Sunflowers and Sunshine

Since I was already in the process of making a book for Ann, my friend Amy asked me to also make one for her friend Erin as a Christmas gift. Amy went to great lengths to find out all of Erin’s favorites…Amy even went so far as to create a survey for Erin to fill [...]

#13: Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp Cupcakes

In September, I started a cupcake adventure. If you haven’t read about it yet, you can do so here.
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I wanted to make some cute “sweetheart-type” cupcakes, and I figured Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp cupcakes might be the perfect opportunity! I started by getting out my super-cute pink-zebra-print cupcake liners that my best friends got me for [...]

An Eating Rainbow

“Butterfly in the skyyyyyy…I can fly twice as hiiiiiiiigh.
When I bake, I make a cake….an eating rainbowwww”
Okay, so it’s a Reading Rainbow, not an Eating Rainbow, but I couldn’t resist…I had to get your attention somehow!
This is one of the first cakes I made in my Wilton decorating class. The pattern was cheesy, [...]