I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that I will be taking very few orders over the next several months… why you might ask? Well that’s the good news! Last Friday, Brandon and I got in the car to go to Atlantic City for the weekend. After we passed the exit [...]
Ever tasted a macaron? No, not a macaROON. A sweet confectionary that comes in so many different colors and flavors. After my cookie class, I will FINALLY have a lull in orders until a couple weddings in October. I ordered my almond flour a long time ago and it looks like I will finally get [...]
Here is a recent order for a wedding shower cake – genuine buttercream with white fondant flowers. This order called for a lot of buttercream so I obviously made a huge batch. One thing I learned was that the proportion of meringue to butter doesn’t always translate in a big batch. While this batch turned [...]
It has been a very busy week! I just finished up a large order of blue crab sugar cookies and I’m working on the final plans for a cookie decorating class I’m teaching here at work! The cookies are for a wedding this weekend. The bride-to-be wanted crab shaped cookies, iced in a medium blue royal icing [...]
… an incident that will live on in this office forever… Remember the pupcakes that I made for a doggie birthday party? .. yea those. With the grilled chicken treats and beggin’ strips? Well there’s a small detail I left out – sort of on purpose because I was so mad. Let me re-tell the details [...]
I wanted to blog about everything I’ve been up to lately and I know I haven’t posted a UTT, so I figured I’d roll it into one. I’m sure you’ve heard it a million times, but practice really does make perfect. If you are a perfectionist like I am, you want it to come out [...]
A few weekends ago, we had a craving for Mon Ami Gabi. When I lived in Reston, there was one down the street in the town center and it is an AMAZING restaurant. Anyway, our friends Chris and Bridget met us at the Mon Ami in Bethesda and we had dinner together. If you are [...]
I wasn’t originally going to blog about this new show, as I was hesitant to give my opinion. But so many people have asked me about it I figured it was worth a blog entry. Long story short: I was incredibly surprised at how staged the show events were. And I could barely get through 15 [...]
I guess it wasn’t a complete fail because it did look pretty, but unless you LOVE jalapenos, I’m going to have to retire this recipe. Since I was trying a new chocolate cake recipe, I figured I’d make a few jalapeno cupcakes (since we have a jungle of them and all). So I cut up [...]
I finally have a weekend with NO commitments (except for Nat’s tickets I won but that’s Sunday afternoon) so I am going to experiment. I have a recipe for a supposedly amazing chocolate cake so I want to try that. Then I’m going to get a little bold. The bf is growing massive amounts of [...]