Ooh la la! Today's party is pure girly fun and fashion-tastic! The catwalks of Paris are brought to life as the birthday girl and her guests play dress up and strike a pose! From their little black t-shirt dresses to signature lip gloss created from luster dust, this party is a little fashionista's dream come true. And the pink and black dessert table with its adorable cake is certainly up our alley! Created by Summer Stone for her daughter's 7th birthday, we're head over heels for Maddie's ... Continue Reading
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2022 Gift Guide for Bakers
This post contains affiliate links. Please read our disclosure policy. Thanksgiving is just one week away! As we celebrate a day filled with family and friends, we count our blessings for yet another wonderful year. Turkey and pumpkin desserts will flow and the holiday season will be underway. So today I’ve rounded up some of my favorite tools which will certainly be put to good use over the holiday season. I love using #18 to bake bacon in the oven. Yes, you can bake bacon and it's the best ... Continue Reading
2018 Holiday Gift Guide for Bakers
Thanksgiving is just two days away! As we celebrate a day filled with family and friends, we count our blessings for yet another wonderful year. Turkey and pumpkin desserts will flow and the holiday season will be underway. This year my family is finally within driving distance of extended relatives for the first time in TEN years. Grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins all within reach, which is such a blessing. Our house is the official destination for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years ... Continue Reading
Spring Wreath Cake
Spring Wreath Cake - how to make a buttercream wreath cake with little decorative touches like a bird's nest, cherry blossoms, green berries and cookie moss. Beautiful for spring events like Easter, baby showers and Mother's Day. It seems as though I have a thing for Easter cakes. Over the last five years, I've made a new cake each spring specifically with the holiday in mind. It all started back in 2013 with my Speckled Egg Cake. That cake has definitely stood the test of time with ... Continue Reading
Winter Buttercream Greenery
Winter Buttercream Greenery - how to pipe buttercream leaves, branches, pine and seasonal greenery fit for a wintry holiday cake. A new video tutorial! Today I'm showing you how to create the wintry buttercream decorations from this Eggnog Cake that I shared earlier in the week. Your response to the buttercream flowers on my Pumpkin Spice Cake inspired me to do something similar with this cake, only tweaked for the winter holidays. I love the look of fresh greenery mixed with wood toned ... Continue Reading
Warm Apple Cake with Salted Caramel Gelato
Today's recipe is sponsored by Unilever Ice Cream. We're celebrating National Dessert Day with Breyers® Gelato Indulgences™. Yes, today is National Dessert Day! Like we need an excuse to eat dessert, but if you're looking for an excuse, a national holiday sounds like the perfect justification. And this warm apple cake with chunks of apple, brown sugar and cinnamon will have you looking like a dessert-making rock star when you pull out freshly baked, individual bowls of heaven for the ... Continue Reading
Candy Cane Brownie Cookies
Today I've partnered with Betty Crocker™, Hershey’s® and Safeway to share a new recipe! Brownie cookies with Candy Cane Kisses frosting! 'Tis the season for baking and cookie making! There's nothing like a homemade gift, straight from the oven, to spread cheer to family and friends. So today we've got a brand new recipe for your holiday baking lineup. A soft, chewy brownie cookie is taken to new festive heights with the addition of white chocolate, peppermint and a decadent chocolate ... Continue Reading
DIY Baby Rattle Cake Pops
Our contributors, Mary and Brenda Maher of Cakegirls, are back with a new DIY today! Join us as they share a new cake project with a step-by-step tutorial. I love making cake pops. There's just something about cute little desserts on a stick that can't be beat. So, when I was enlisted to bring the desserts to a girlfriend's baby shower, it was just a matter of deciding what kind of baby themed cake pops to create. Well, this was not your average rubber ducky themed baby shower and it ... Continue Reading
10 Ways to Spoil Your Mother
Mother's Day is sneaking up on us! May 10th will be here before you know it. So today we're taking a look at some ways you can celebrate the special mother in your life. From recipes to unexpected gift ideas, here's 10 Ways to Spoil Your Mother this Mother's Day. 1. Bake her something from scratch like this Raspberry & Blood Orange Cake with dreamy pink drizzles. Find the recipe HERE. Find all of our cake recipes HERE. 2. Celebrate her love of macarons with this adorable ... Continue Reading
2015 Wedding Cake Trends
We've come to the end of our latest cake series - The 2015 Wedding Cake Preview! We've spent the last two weeks oohing and aahing over marvelous cake designs and getting the scoop on 2015 cake trends from the ladies who know. Top cake designers were asked to predict which cake trends will be hot in 2015. Based on their insights, this talented group got busy creating innovative new cakes, exclusively for this cake series and especially for you! If you missed any of these cakes, you can catch ... Continue Reading
2015 Wedding Cake Trends
We're kicking off 2015 with a brand new cake series - and it's all about trends for the upcoming year! What better way to spend our January than oohing and aahing over marvelous cake designs while we get the scoop on trends from the ladies who know. Here's how it all came together: Top cake designers were asked to predict what cake trends will be hot in 2015. Based on their insights, this talented group got busy creating innovative new cakes, exclusively for this cake series and especially ... Continue Reading
Extreme Peanut Butter Cup Brownies
Oh my peanut butter cups! Chocolate and peanut butter is one of those combinations that is just so tempting. When you bring them together in a decadently rich, fudgy brownie, you better stand back because the result is outrageously good! Today's recipe starts with a perfect brownie base and is topped with chopped peanuts and milk chocolate chips. Inside, waiting for you like the best surprise ever, is a layer of miniature peanut butter cups! It's a little square of chocolate peanut butter ... Continue Reading
Summer Frills Cake
Everything around us seems to be signalling that summer is coming to an end. Children are heading back to school and Labor Day is just around the corner. But the weather here is still bright, sunny and warm. So I feel basking in the goodness of summer just a little bit longer before we officially switch gears towards fall. I hope you're with me because there's a delicious strawberry cake recipe coming your way later in the week. Plus, today's featured cake design is an absolute ray of ... Continue Reading
Pleated Wedding Cake
We're starting off the week with a new design that illustrates the beauty of simplicity. Today's feature is an elegant wedding cake that is perfectly groomed and bursting with great white-on-white details. Pristine tiers of white shimmer softly with just a hint of lustre. While a statement-making rose finds its home in a bed of tulle, perched at the very top. And then there's the fabulous bottom tier, covered in rows of vertical pleats, cascading down like rippled ribbons. It all comes ... Continue Reading
Golden Honeycomb Cake
You know it's going to be a good week when Monday starts off with a pretty new cake to love. Especially one as gorgeous as today's feature. With a soft color palette of ivory, peach and gold, today's cake will certainly charm you with its natural beauty. And then you'll spot the honeycomb pattern and all will be lost. Oh how we love a pretty take on honeycomb. Let alone a textured honeycomb pattern with delicate accents of gold and a subtle shimmer. And then there's the sugar roses, ... Continue Reading
Ivory & Champagne Ruffles
Happy Monday! We're kick starting your day with some beautiful wedding cake inspiration. Scratch that. Today's cake isn't just beautiful. It's more like a breathtaking! And it will definitely have you dreaming of pretty cakes all week long. Tall, slender tiers are stacked ever so gracefully. While shades of champagne fade to ivory in rows upon rows of fondant frills. Two and a half tiers of frilly frills, to be exact. And then there's the flowers. Oh my goodness, these flowers! Big, ... Continue Reading
Delicate Lace Cake
Today's feature is one of those cakes that just simply makes you smile and let out a small little sigh of cake love. It's ridiculously beautiful, from top to bottom and everywhere in between. Creamy ivory fondant is accented with a soft grey bands and blush pink flowers. While a scalloped topper showcases the couple's monogram and a teeny-tiny Yorkie figurine looks on, sitting patiently and representing a gesture that all pet lovers can appreciate. And then, there's the lace. Delicate. ... Continue Reading
The 3rd Cake of Christmas
It's our third annual holiday series.... The 12 Cakes of Christmas!! We're oohing and aahing over twelve marvelous cake designs, created especially for this series! All brand new, never seen before, and created by some of your favorite bakers! For our theme this year, we're taking a moment to reflect on our favorite Christmas memories and traditions. It's a feel good month, celebrating the little things that make this season shine bright. Each of our featured bakers was asked to create a ... Continue Reading
Golden Hexagon Cake
We're starting off the week with a cake that is nothing less than dreamy. A fabulous blend of 2013's hottest trends and colors, today's feature unites crisp white and mint green with a small pinch of grey and a huge dash of gorgeous gold. With a graphic print, so bold and sleek, you can't imagine how it was so perfectly placed. Not to mention a modern flower that's simply sophisticated and just the right level of minimal. It all comes together in a yummy design that will have you fantasizing ... Continue Reading
Pink Week: Romantic Wedding Inspiration
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’ve been celebrating with pink all week long. And we're wrapping up our pink tribute with a rare Saturday edition. Because there were just too many beautiful pink cakes in my inbox to fit into one week. So I thought we'd sneak in one more post! (If you missed any of the prior days, you can catch up here). Today's feature is a gorgeous wedding shoot filled with shades of pink and little touches of gold. With oodles of details and sweets galore, ... Continue Reading
Pink Week: Gold & Pink
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re going pink all week long. To remember, honor and support all of those who’s lives have been touched by breast cancer. Today is day four of our pink journey! (If you missed any of the prior days, you can catch up here). Today's featured cake has some seriously glam going on. It's golden from top to bottom with details galore and gorgeous pops of pink. This is definitely a statement-making cake with four tiers of fabulous. Studded quilting ... Continue Reading
Recipe: Pineapple Upside-Down Cupcakes
Our contributor, Lauren of Crave. Indulge. Satisfy., is back with a delicious new recipe.... Sweet pineapple, brown sugar, butter and a cherry center are the star ingredients of one of my favorite traditional summer cakes, Pineapple Upside-Down. Today I'm re-inventing this cake as a mini version. Typically when I think of Pineapple Upside-Down Cake I think of pineapple rings with a cherry in the middle, which is beautiful when baking a large cake. For this recipe, I decided crushed ... Continue Reading
Romantic Peonies & Anemones
With its romantic charm and refined beauty, today's featured cake captured my heart upon first glance. And if you're a girl who loves soft colors with a touch of elegance, prepare to be smitten as well. Shades of blush and pale rose pair up with subtle texture and breathtaking sugar flowers. Lush sugar peonies grouped with anemones, berries and branches create a scene that is meticulously tailored and oh-so-gorgeous. It's the perfect pretty for any summer wedding and our Friday swooning. ... Continue Reading
Ruffles & Dahlias Cake
Hello heavenly honeycomb! The latest trend for 2013 is all about this graphic hexagonal pattern. Honeycomb prints are popping up in everything from fashion to interior design this spring. We've been loving on honeycomb ever since the Spring of 2012, when we featured this honeycomb cake. And now we're smitten with another new spin on honeycomb. Today's featured cake is a more of a subtle nod to this growing trend, celebrating the honeycomb structure of a dahlia flower with blooms that take ... Continue Reading
Black & Ivory Ruffle Cake
Happy Monday! We're kicking off the week with a cake that is nothing short of dreamy. There's something so sophisticated and refined about a classic color combination like black and ivory. So when you add in a touch of shimmering gold and an abundance of flowing ruffles, you've got sweet perfection. Inspired by a wedding dress, today's cake is ready to waltz down the aisle. You're seriously going to love this one! I mean, LOVE! With its rows upon rows of scalloped ruffles, elegant black ... Continue Reading
Mint, Blush & Gold Flowers
In case you didn't get enough on St. Patrick's Day, we have a little touch of green to start off your week. But we're not talking cutesy leprechaun green here. We're talking gorgeous mint green with elegant touches of gold. Paired with a blush pink and a contrasting black, creating one hot color combo for spring. Delicate roses and tiny pink blossoms get an extra touch of fabulous with gilded gold accents. And then there's the perfectly ruffled fondant ribbon. Dancing around two of the ... Continue Reading
Pearlescent Shades of Gray Cake
Oh for the love of simple sophistication. There's nothing like a cake with clean lines and a touch of romance to get your heart racing. And that's exactly what we have for you today. Soft creamy white meets several shades of grey in this polished design created by Kristin Kirkpatrick , owner of Fat Girl Cakes in Virginia. A textured grey sash, gathered with a delicate fantasy flower, creates a gorgeous focal point and reason alone to swoon. And then there's the pearls. The oh-so-cultured ... Continue Reading