Strawberry cake frosted with freeze-dried strawberry buttercream and topped with frosting swirls and strawberry slices

Strawberry Sourdough Discard Cake

Need an easy, delicious way to use up sourdough discard (and some strawberries)?I tweaked my classic Sourdough Discard layer cake recipe to include strawberries- and…

tennis ball cake cover image

Tennis Ball Cake

So you want to make a Tennis ball cake? I’ve got you covered! 🙂 Whether you need a Tennis ball cake for a birthday party, competition,…

Chocolate Sourdough Discard cake recipe; slice cut from cake to show texture

Chocolate Sourdough Discard Cake

Chocolate Sourdough Discard Cake Need a delicious (easy) way to use up sourdough discard?This Chocolate Sourdough Discard layer cake uses 250g (about 1 cup) of discard…

Process collage showing how to use acetate and an expandable cake ring to frost a cake

Cake Ring Hack for frosting

Cake Ring Hack for smooth frosting!  After *6 years* on the smooth-frosting-struggle-bus – I finally found a method that I don’t hate! I initially figured I…

Vintage Wedding Cake

Wanting to decorate a Vintage Wedding Cake? If you’re giving any thought to decorating a vintage wedding cake – whether it’s a single or multi-tier…

Vanilla Sourdough Discard Cake frosted with cream cheese frosting. Slice cut from cake.

Vanilla Sourdough Discard Cake

Need a delicious (easy) way to use up sourdough discard?This Vanilla Sourdough Discard layer cake uses 250g of discard -and makes one KILLER cake!So after…

Pickleball Cake made with bright yellow cream cheese frosting and cut-outs with gray in the base to resemble a pickleball

Easy Pickleball Cake

Need a pickleball cake for a birthday? (or pickleball tournament or whatever? 😉 )If you’re not looking for anything too big or elaborate, I’ve got…

Nightmare Before Christmas Cake decorated with black frosting, and a white Jack Skellington face buttercream transfer

Nightmare Before Christmas Cake

“Twas a long time ago, longer now than it seems, in a place perhaps you’ve seen in your dreams.” (Nightmare Before Christmas: Narrator)The Backstory:Several stars…

Berry First bd smash cake - cropped thumbnail image

Berry First Birthday Cake

A “Berry First Birthday” cake recipe (made with low- to no-sugar!)If you’re looking for ideas for a ‘berry first’ cake that’s refined-sugar-free (or almost-free)…I’ve 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 came 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…

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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…