Floral Wedding Cakes

Bride's and Groom's cakes together. All the flowers are made of royal icing.

The Groom's Cake was chocolate peanut butter. This is about as scrumptious as it gets!

The Bride's cake was vanilla. Elegant, simple, delicious!

Eagle Scout Cake

This cake was for an Eagle Scout ceremony. What an accomplishment!

Hello Kitty

I LOVED Hello Kitty when I was a little girl, so I loved making this cake for a sweet little girl's birthday party!

Easter Cake

I made this cake for my family for Easter this year. I love making cakes for my own family because I get to do whatever I want! HA!

Nursery Rhyme Easter Eggs

These are cupcakes covered in fondant to look like Easter eggs! Aren't they cute? They were made for a 2 year old's birthday party whose birthday falls very close to Easter. Her party theme was nursery rhymes. Can you guess the nursery rhyme that goes with each egg?

Mickey Mouse

This fun cake was for a little girl's second birthday party!

Butterflies

This is one of my all time favorite cakes! It was made for a little girl's birthday party. The theme of the party was Fancy Nancy (a storybook character) so everything had to be really fancy. That was as much as anyone told me, "make it fancy!" and I came up with the rest on my own. When I got there, by an amazing coincidence, the whole party was decked out in butterflies! Three people contributed separately to the decorations and all of us chose butterflies! It was such a special day!

Purple Zebra Cake

This cool cake was requested by a little girl for her 11th birthday. I love making cakes for kids because they always force me to be more creative than I am naturally! I never would have thought of purple zebra stripes myself, but they look really cool!

Owl Cake

Owls are quite the thing lately! I loved this idea that a mommy-to-be picked out and brought to me for her baby shower. By the way, this was the first gluten free cake I've made. It was delicious!

Go Wildcats!

Since ORHS is my own alma mater, I had fun making this cake for an ORHS football player's 16th birthday! Go wildcats!

Cookie Monster......Pink!

It's not everyday that someone asks for a pink Cookie
Monster cake! But, I think Cookie looks pretty fabulous with this little pink makeover. Maybe he should consider a new look! :-)

Musical Minis

These cute mini cupcakes were made for a senior music major's recital.

Polka Dot Birthday Cake

This is a chocolate cake with buttercream icing and fondant details.

Animal Shower Cake

This fun little cake is decorated in buttercream and fondant. This is my favorite way to use fondant!

Recipe: Corn Cheese Muffins

I am constantly experimenting in the kitchen and coming up with new recipes. Every now and then I come up with something really good, so I have decided to share! First, you need to understand something about my cooking. This is important: I measure nothing! The only exception is when I make cakes and bread and then I actually weigh my main ingredients in grams to be precise. But otherwise, I'm a "just throw stuff in" kind of cook. That said, my recipes are more like guidelines. Adapt them as you see fit! :-)

These little muffins came about as an attempt to broaden my toddler's veggie repertoire. I mean, seriously, what toddler is going to eat onions unless they are very well camoflauged? So, I dumped a bunch of stuff into some mini muffin tins and what do you know? They're fantastic!! Here's what you do:

Group A:
1 small onion finely diced
1 cup frozen corn
steamed smashed carrots (something like 1/3 cup - this is me not measuring!)
1/2 stick of butter

Group B:
2 eggs
1/2 - 1 cup buttermilk (sorry, I just dump. If you really need to measure, split the difference and hope for the best!)
1 1/3 cup self-rising flour (again, give or take some to achieve good muffin batter consistency)
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
1/4 cup shredded parmesean cheese
1/4 tsp smoked paprika
1/2 tsp dill
1 Tbsp sugar

Sautee Group A until everything is really nice and soft. Don't rush this step. Really get those onions mushy!

Whisk Group B together until just blended - embrace the lumps, they aren't a bad thing!

Dump Group A into Group B and stir to combine.

Bake at 400 until tops of muffins spring back when you poke them. The timing will depend on the size of your muffins. When I made the mini muffins for my toddler, they were perfect after only about 10-12 min. Regular muffins will take a little longer.

You could definitely add other veggies to these muffins. Oh, and if you haven't tried smoked paprika yet, it will totally rock your world!

Happy baking!