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Category Archives: brown sugar

“My family is bananas” Bananas Foster cupcakes.

My cousin Mike & his lovely wife Heather live in New Orleans, Louisiana, where Mike is a police officer. Mike’s dad Tom is my mom’s cousin, but they share the exact same DNA since they both have the same family on both sides; you see, my mom’s father Clarence’s (nicknamed Butch) sister Eleanor married my [...]


September 15, 2011

Happy 30th birthday Melanie!

A few weeks ago, a friend of ours, Matt, asked me to make a special cupcake order for his girlfriend Melanie’s 30th birthday (which is today). I usually don’t do this, mainly because I don’t have the time or the space in my kitchen for tons of cupcake orders, let alone the patience to create [...]


March 27, 2011

Ladies & gentlemen… the Spice girls!

I just stumbled on a blog post written about me that is so cute & sweet, I wanted to share it. Thank you, Food Love! I know, I’m pretty amazing. *wink* It still stuns me that anyone comes here and reads my little ol’ website, so I get kinda giddy reading stuff like that. Makes [...]


November 16, 2010

A new spin on pumpkin muffins.

A bunch of stuff has been going on lately, and I’m kind of all over the place (not to mention still fighting off this disgusting cold that just won’t die… it’s like a bad zombie movie: Night of the Living Mucus). I wanted to thank everyone who purchased from Yoyo‘s webstore on November 1st. Thanks [...]


November 09, 2010

Who needs turkey? Gimme the cakes!

Actually, I really like turkey. So give me both. Despite how I feel about Thanksgiving’s history, I do love this time of year. I don’t like winter much, and snow is my kryptonite, but I love autumn. I love fall leaves, and pumpkin picking, and fall baking. And fall clothes! They’re clearly the best. So [...]


November 05, 2010