Berry First bd smash cake - cropped thumbnail image

Berry First Birthday Cake

“Berry First Birthday” cake recipe (made with low- to no-sugar!)Looking for a cake for baby’s “Berry first birthday”?Want that cake to be refined-sugar-free (or almost-free)? Got…

Kahlua Mudslide cake with kahlua ganache drip (uncut)

Kahlua Mudslide Cake

A delicious cake-take on the ‘Kahlua mudslide’ cocktail! (or use another chocolate-friendly liqueur if you like 🙂 ) My initial idea for this cake cake from the…

Easy homemade wedding cake. 2 tier vanilla cake with Mr & Mrs topper and silk florals.

Easy Homemade Wedding Cake

Can I make my own wedding cake? Should I make my own wedding cake?(What are the pros and cons?) (And what are my options if I…

Halloween Skull cake (green cake decorated with black skulls)

Halloween Skull Cake

Halloween cakes are *still* the most fun! I’ve been making Halloween cakes for I think 6 years now – and it just NEVER gets old! I…

Black Spider web cake - orange cake covered with black marshmallow spiderweb

Black Marshmallow Spiderweb Cake

“Can you make a BLACK marshmallow spiderweb cake?”We’ve all seen the black-frosted cakes covered in white melted-marshmallow spiderwebs. But what if you wanted to use…

Baseball cake thumbnail image (6 inch half sphere buttercream cake shaped and decorated like a baseball)

Baseball Cake

Need to make a baseball cake? Not too long ago I made a golf ball smash cake for a friend’s kiddo’s first birthday. It was a…

Wild One Smash Cake

It’s been One Wild year! Have you ever been on a roller coaster that really got to you? I’m not talking the ‘just got my stomach…

101 Dalmatians cake

I risk sounding like a broken record here…but it really feels like it was just the other month that I was making my daughter’s first…

Golf Ball Smash Cake

Need a golf ball smash cake – or a golf ball birthday cake?I’ve got you covered! 🙂 As conceptually simple as they look, golf ball…

Thomas the Train Cake

All aboard! All aboard! This Thomas the Train cake is a great birthday or special event cake for your little engineers (like my little nephew) or…

Ladybug smash cake, with 'One' ladybug cake topper and fondant ladybugs

Ladybug Smash Cake

When my ‘little love bug’ turned 1 …Honestly, I had to spend some time wondering where all the time had gone when my ‘little love…

Ladybug Birthday Cake

I still don’t know where  the year went…My ‘little love bug’ turned 1 a few months ago (they didn’t lie; that first year went super…

Banana Biscoff Cake

Biscoff Banana Cake

Any great cake is worth tweaking and making again, right? 😉 I recently ran across a photo of a Banana Caramel Drip Cake I made about…

Reese's candy filled cake thumbnail

Reese's Candy-filled Cake

Twist on one of my most popular cakes…One of my all-time most popular recipe posts to date has been the Candy-Filled M&Ms cake. Probably because…

Almond Blackberry Cake

“This might be your best cake ever.”- taste tester 🙂 So – the backstory to the creation of this Almond Blackberry cake. There are a huge…

Grasshopper (mint chocolate) Cake

Grasshopper Cake

One of my favorite yearly birthday cakes!Every year for my dad’s birthday – and sometimes also for Father’s Day – my mom makes a ‘Grasshopper…

Hawaiian Island Smash Cake

Hawaiian Island Smash Cake

Always my favorite cakes to make – I think smash cakes are just the cutest!Smash cake requests are my absolute favorite things! Smash cakes are…

Thin Mint Brownies

Thin Mint Brownies

Nobody said sheet cakes have to be boring! It’s Girl Scout cookie season, and I got several boxes of cookies recently from my nieces – including…

Samoas Cake

Girl Scout cookie season strikes again! Welllll it’s been Girl Scout cookie season around here. So I’ve had cookies coming out my ears and they always…

Skittles Cake

I feel a little pathetic admitting to this…….but I made a Skittles cake in *2019* that I was never really super happy with. I’d  been…

Rainbow Unicorn Cake

Rainbow Unicorn Cake

I got to make the *cutest* cake for a little 3-year-old! I got to make the cutest birthday cake a few months ago. To be honest,…

Vegan Oreo Confetti Cake

Vegan Oreo Confetti Cake

I had a request not long ago…Soo I had a request for an Oreo Confetti Cake not too long ago – with one catch; the…

Football Cake - two tiered

Football Cake

Where are my football fans at? 😉 I remember finally getting this post edited and published – in the middle of the 2020/2021 shutdowns and quarantines….