cake decorating

Oreos, Cake, and Pie, Oh My!

I love getting creative with chocolate covered Oreos! Here’s how the batch came out for the order I was practicing for.

Chocolate covered Oreos

Jimmy’s birthday is coming up and he requested cherry pie, so I made that happen this week! I used my favorite (easy!) pie crust recipe found here. (more…)

The Return to Baking: Making a Peeps Cake with Sadie!

Baking is something I just love to do! Each time I’ve had a baby, it falls a bit to the wayside and I always wonder… will I want to pick it back up again? The answer has always been yes. This time, it was Sadie who got me back in the kitchen!

I was wanting to do some hands-on science lessons with her and gave her a few options: astronomy with our telescope, geology with rocks and gemstones, or baking. Sadie made mama proud and chose baking!

She decided she wanted to make a Peeps cake for spring, so that’s what we did. We woke up one morning and both Mordecai and Dakota were sleeping so we started baking her cake at 7:00 am 😂 (more…)