A friend of mine ordered this cake for her Dad’s birthday last weekend, and I love how it turned out! I used my favorite white cake recipe, paired with strawberry jam, fresh strawberries, and vanilla Swiss buttercream. She wanted a tropical themed cake, so I […]

One of my good friends just turned 40 last weekend🎉 , so her husband asked me to make her a birthday cake. You should know, they are very Italian…like cannoli connoisseur Italians 👨‍🍳🌎. So when they asked me to make a cannoli cream cake, I […]

This buttercream recipe is my go-to icing for almost any cake I make. This post is the simple vanilla version, but it can be modified relatively easily for different flavors. You can replace some of the butter with peanut butter 🥜, or add melted chocolate […]

This weekend I made a baby shower cake for a former coworker of mine.  She requested a vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream, so I’m going to share my go-to white cake recipe with you today.  It is a pretty simple recipe, but it’s always moist and […]

Today I am going to share with you my favorite buttercream recipe.  There are four main styles of buttercream: American, Swiss, Italian, and French.  American buttercream is the most common, as it is the easiest to make…the other three recipes involve heating your sugar and […]

Today we’re making Grace’s Magic Cookies!  They are a combination of a sugar cookies, confetti cake, and vanilla whoopie pies.  These sandwich cookies would be a great treat for a birthday party, bake sale, or just a midnight snack.  I made a batch of these […]