Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing

Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

March 27, 2019 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing
Toasty Topping

It was my brother’s birthday last week, and I wanted to make a special treat for him and his fam. This doesn’t take any special brainstorming because they all absolutely love Lemon Meringue Pie. I wanted to put a bit of a twist on it though, and decided to make a cupcake version. I briefly […]

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Tipsy Irish Cupcakes

March 21, 2019 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing

I wanted to make my new co-workers a St. Patrick’s Day treat, and I knew right away that I would make these cupcakes. There are already a couple iterations of this Guiness chocolate cake with Baileys frosting in the archives; the first was a simple one layer cake, and the second was a super-hydrated bundt […]

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Baked Sunday Mornings: Lemon Lemon Loaf

February 24, 2019 Baked Sunday Mornings

We had a big fundraising event at work last week, and the following day, an email went out about some leftover items for sale. I wasn’t really interested until I saw the last line: LEMONS AND LIMES FREE TO A GOOD HOME. I remembered this Lemon Lemon Loaf was on our agenda for today, and […]

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Alicorn Cake

January 23, 2019 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing

Does this cake look familiar? My niece’s request for her birthday cake this year was awfully similar to last year, with one exception: WINGS. Did you know a Unicorn with wings was called an Alicorn? I sure didn’t, and when I asked “Isn’t that a Pegasus?” I was swiftly corrected: “No Auntie Robyn, a Pegasus […]

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Chrissy Teigen’s Banana Bread

November 7, 2018 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing
CT

I consider myself to be a banana bread expert. No recipe in the world will ever live up to the banana bread my Mom made when I was growing up, which is perfect in every way. Since I already know I’ll never find a better recipe, I have a lot of fun trying BB variations […]

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Rainbow Bit Frosting

October 16, 2018 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing
Rainbow Bit Icing

When it comes to my birthday cake, there are four main food groups I’m interested in: Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cookies & Cream Funfetti, also known as RAINBOW BIT I recently made my niece a Chocolate Peanut Butter Mega Cake, so I wasn’t feeling that this year. Plus I made this […]

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Peach Crisp Cake

September 10, 2018 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing

Does everyone out there know about FUNEMPLOYMENT? I’m sure there are a few definitions, but for my purposes, funemployment is the space of time between finishing at one job and starting at a new one, when you have no responsibilities and can totally luxuriate in your jobless state, but with the safety net of knowing that […]

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Mega Cake

August 15, 2018 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing
Chocolate PB Mega Cake

Yesterday was my niece’s 11th birthday, and her birthday request was a Reese’s Cake she saw online (shout out Lizzy T). I took that idea and ran with it, using inspiration from Yo’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Mega Cake to create this beauty. Here’s how I did it: Baked up the quickest and easiest Chocolate Cake recipe […]

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Brown Bear Cake

August 2, 2018 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing
Brown Bear Cake

Do you remember the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? I totally remember reading this as a kid, and it still holds up today, because it’s one of my friend Francis Levi’s favourite books! Francis’ mom, my friend Nicole, asked me to make a Brown Bear cake for his 2nd birthday party […]

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Strawberry Tres Leches Cake

July 4, 2018 Cakes, Cupcakes & Icing
Strawberry Tres Leches Cake

My biggest frustration when it comes to baking is wasting time and money on a recipe that doesn’t work out. It doesn’t happen too often anymore, so when it does, I get super annoyed. That’s what happened with this Strawberry Tres Leches Cake. I was so excited to make it and bring it to Jenny’s […]

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