Until yesterday, I’d never made a successful pumpkin roll. I was in charge of bringing one to Thanksgiving about 3 years ago. I made one, and it ripped when I rolled it. So I made another one, and that one ripped too. I wrapped up the mangled pumpkin roll. Put it in a cooler and drove to Thanksgiving. Needless to say, it was one ugly dessert, and I think the kids were scared of it.…
Sometimes I need a nap in the afternoon. Sometimes I need to confide in my favorite ladies. Sometimes I need a beer before dinner. Sometimes I need to sing along to Lady Gaga. Sometimes I need another coffee. Sometimes I need to bring Elliot with me to get ice cream. Sometimes I need to sit in the sun and get freckles. Sometimes I need to watch true crime shows in front of a fan. This week I…
Sometimes things aren’t as simple as this Sunday cake. For example, I wanted to order Sliding Doors on demand and accidentally ordered Space Chimps. You’d think ordering a movie would be simple… Can you believe I messed it up? And it’s hot like summer, so it’s too hot for tights. And did you know that my legs are always too pale for summer? It’s not simple for me to get a tan, that’s for sure. This…
On Sunday, I woke up early to drive this cake to my favorite lady’s house for dessert. I went to church with tights that matched those raspberries. I turned off the tea water and ate chop suey. We passed the carrots, buttered french bread, and talked about summer, root beer floats, and bluebirds. And then took seconds. While still full, I sliced this cake and placed it on my Aunt Wanetta’s pretty blue and white plates, that…
I hope your day is as lovely as you are! PLUS: a cake memory for you to tuck into your Easter basket. Below is a throwback photo of a cake I made with my friend Mike, years ago. This cake wasn’t baked all the way and was decorated with dinosaur sprinkles. It was a really fun mess. Cheers to medium rare cake and mismatched sprinkles! Red Velvet Cake // 2004
I didn’t know what to say on this cake. I decided to follow my heart and just say what Rachel Zoe would say. This cake is bananas: B – A – N – A – N – A – S. Good thing I found more “A” cookies in the box, right? For a minute I was just using upside-down “V”s, and that’s just not classy. I figured that I should make those freckled bananas, casually lounging…
I frosted this cake on my lunch break. I also managed to pump gas, get a few groceries, bring Elliot out twice for backyard-prancing, make a disaster of the kitchen, take photos, give Elliot a strawberry, make two willy-nilly veggie burritos, and then zoom back to work. Get your very own flags here: Guinness Chocolate Cake Flags! Last night, I ate cake before dinner, appetizer-style. Eating dessert first is where it’s at, especially on St. Patrick’s Day Eve.…
I like molasses, pound cake and polka dots. I like Pioneer Sugar because it’s made in Michigan and I like brown eggs because they’re pretty. I like this Grandma Molasses because it smells good and that chicken bowl because it was my mom’s. I like my slippers, piping dots and parchment paper. I like the sun, windows, and this pound cake’s pretty complexion. And I really like how my house smelled like warm spices while…
What do you do when you are in a funk? I find that there a few things I do. I cheer myself up by wearing my most favorite high-healed clogs that make boring outfits look hip. Walking Elliot always helps. In those minutes we are outside and he’s prancy-walking and I’m girly-walking, things are good. Putting beer in cake and browning butter for a glaze helps too. My day got a lot better once this…
When I was a kid, I thought carrot cake was super gross. Now I know better. It’s not scary at all; it’s just a really pretty orange spice cake with cream cheese frosting. I grated a pound of carrots. (While grating, I wondered why the YMCA doesn’t have a carrot-grating class, because it wore my arms out.) Anyhow, I grated them really teeny so that they wouldn’t be weird and crunchy in the cake, but…