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Category Archives: baking tips

All your burning questions answered.

Let me preface this by saying I am not in any way, shape or form the expert in these matters. All I am is a chick whose been baking weekly or bi-weekly for the last 6 years and had this blog for about 4 ½, so I know a little bit about a few things [...]


April 24, 2012

(Winter) white velvet butter cupcakes.

Did you ever have a time when you baked something, and it came out tasty but not really visually up to your standards, despite the cute decorations & effort put in?  Well, this is one of those times for me. One of my Christmas presents from Jay, as I’ve mentioned before, was a set of [...]


January 21, 2011

Frosting tutorial part two: the icing on the cake.

Sorry, it’s been longer than expected. I’ve had a few setbacks, if you’re a regular reader you’re aware of my “EYE PROBLEM“ and my broken coupler… *sigh* But we’re back in business now, folks. Hope all you mommies had a wonderful Mother’s Day. Now let’s get back down to business. I’m really glad that part [...]


May 12, 2010

Chocolate chip muffins- an update!

Remember last week when I made best chocolate chip muffins ever? After making them twice in one week, I had a request to make them yet again. However, I ran out of all-purpose flour, and all I had was cake flour. If you don’t know already, cake flour is a softer, more powdery flour. It [...]


April 27, 2010

Frosting lesson number one: logistics, a.k.a. “common sense.”

For quite some time now, people have been asking me to do tutorials on frosting. Specifically piping and the use of pastry bags, but I’ve gotten requests for things like tinting frosting, mixing frosting, and basic frosting application as well. In no way do I think I’m the best at this, nor am I professionally [...]


April 09, 2010