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This week’s obsession: Pumpkin Pecan Cake

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Nov 27
3 min

This week’s obsession: Pumpkin Pecan Cake

Let’s just get this out of the way right now - I don't make traditional Thanksgiving desserts anymore. I’m happy to be inspired by the traditional dessert flavors - and why not? Those flavors are there because it’s what’s in season. But truthfully I’ve never loved the two desserts that Americans settled on as expected Thanksgiving meal closers: pecan pie and pumpkin pie. Mostly it’s because I don’t like pie. Pie crusts are so bland and usually frightfully underbaked. The fill

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This week’s obsession: Pumpkin EVERYTHING

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Nov 13
3 min

This week’s obsession: Pumpkin EVERYTHING

Ok maybe not everything - I like pumpkin, but not THAT much. But since it’s in season, I do want to enjoy the flavor a bit. Pumpkin is one of those foods that can lend itself to both the savory and the sweet worlds, but since I am me, you know how I decided to use my pumpkin. That's right, I decided to make a delicious dessert with my pumpkin. I know. We're all shocked. One of the most obvious choices for me is to make macarons, so that’s exactly what I did. But instead of th

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This week’s obsession: BoOoOoOk!

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Oct 30
3 min

This week’s obsession: BoOoOoOk!

It’s here! My final Hocus Pocus themed creation for October! It’s a “BoOoOoOk!” Cake! I brought this cake to a rooftop party with neighbors who are mostly just a smidge older than I am, but they had no idea what this cake was. So I'll explain: Book is a character in both Hocus Pocus movies. In the movie, it is said that this spellbook is written in blood and bound in human skin. The reason I titled this post with so many “o”s is because when the character Winnifred calls for

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This week’s obsession: Black Flame Candle

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Oct 23
3 min

This week’s obsession: Black Flame Candle

Behold! The Black Flame Candle! (Still on a Hocus Pocus kick here, friends.) Ok, I know this is not what the Black Flame Candle looks like in the first movie. In fact the only thing that’s black about the Black Flame Candle in the movie is the flame. Whereas for my Black Flame Candle, everything about it is black and the flame... isn’t. C’est la vie. The truth is, I’ve wanted to make a candle cake for a few years now and I finally seized my chance. But ever since this summer

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This week’s obsession: Witchy Macarons

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Oct 16
4 min

This week’s obsession: Witchy Macarons

We are in the thick of it, y’all! And by “it” I mean spooky season. (I’m sure you’re tired of me mentioning it, but I am trying to make the most of it this year because I feel like I’ve really missed out on seasons these last few years.) Anyway, I’m still on a Hocus Pocus kick, and decided to make three different types of macarons this weekend, representing each of the Sanderson sisters - again. This time I’ve represented them via their dress colors (much like I did with our

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This week’s obsession: Sistahs Cupcakes

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Oct 9
3 min

This week’s obsession: Sistahs Cupcakes

Have you watched Hocus Pocus 2 yet?? I won’t give any spoilers, but I definitely enjoyed my experience watching it with friends! It probably helped that they are the kind of people who would readily sing along with/bust out matching choreography to the original movie (we did a double feature - original movie first with singing and dancing, then we settled in for the new one), AND they showed up in full costume. I was so overjoyed! Of course, being the party planner that I am,

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This week’s obsession: Flat Tops

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Oct 2
2 min

This week’s obsession: Flat Tops

I’m hoping by the end of this post that you “get” the double entendre in the title. This week, I got to try out a frosting technique that has been on my radar for a few months. It seems so simple, yet I wonder why I never thought to do it before. Side note: I realize that this isn’t exactly spooky season baking, but trust that I have plenty of delicious spooky treats planned for this entire month! Mostly I posted these cupcakes today because I don’t want to spoil the surprise

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This week’s obsession: Summer Baking. Or Not.

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Sep 25
4 min

This week’s obsession: Summer Baking. Or Not.

Well hello, stranger! Long time no see! Admittedly, that’s entirely my fault since I’m the one who stopped writing blogs for a while. But I had a good reason, I promise! Or, well… many reasons. For starters, one of the last orders I took over the summer was for a wedding cake and macarons. They turned out nicely, but that’s only because of my incredible neighbor. You see, to make macarons you have to have control over the humidity in the room where they are piped, rested, and

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This week’s obsession: Ocean Waves

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Jun 26
3 min

This week’s obsession: Ocean Waves

Friends, I was lucky enough to take a trip back to New Orleans this past week to celebrate Father’s Day with my dad and to surprise my nieces and nephews! It was wonderful and deliciously warm (everyone is complaining about record heat there, but all I knew is that I didn't have goosebumps once and my nose didn’t run every single day I was there, so I think it was awesome!). While I was there, my family was celebrating my niece's 11th birthday, and you KNOW I jumped at the ch

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This week’s obsession: Browned Butter Frosting

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Jun 12
3 min

This week’s obsession: Browned Butter Frosting

By now you should know that I am majorly obsessed with browned butter. I’ve only mentioned it all the time, right? And it’s what makes my salted chocolate chip cookies so dang delicious! In the last year or so, I’ve been wondering about different ways to use browned butter so the flavor can really shine. Fast forward to a cake order that not only needed to feed 70+ people, but also was my chance to show off my knowledge of flavor combinations AND how delicious my products are

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This week’s obsession: Maca-WRONGs

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May 30
2 min

This week’s obsession: Maca-WRONGs

One of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever experienced in the world of pastry is when I go through the painstaking process of making macaron batter, lovingly pipe it into the most perfect circles I can muster, crank up the A/C in my apartment to give them the absolute best weather conditions for survival, then pop them into my oven only to find that almost every single shell on the tray has cracked. It’s devastating. Utterly heartbreaking. And freaking expensive. Because

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This week’s obsession: Cookie Dough Pops

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Jan 30
4 min

This week’s obsession: Cookie Dough Pops

Sometimes, friends, I knock it so far out of the park that I am thoroughly impressed with myself. This week is definitely one of those times. Are you a cookie dough fan? I have always been a huge fan - chocolate chip cookie dough is my favorite. It’s my favorite Ben and Jerry’s flavor, I love sneaking tastes of the cookie dough before I bake it, and one time, I even bought a log of cookie dough the day of a break up and peeled the wrapper off like a banana and ate my feelings

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This week’s obsession: A Lesson in Humidity

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Sep 19, 2021
4 min

This week’s obsession: A Lesson in Humidity

What is your response when someone tells you that you can’t do something? Typically, I let it roll right off me with the internal thought combo of “this guy/gal doesn’t even know what I’m capable of” and “I don’t really care enough about this to even bother” and that’s usually why I don’t rise to the occasion when someone tells me that I can’t. However. I was once in my twenties and had a very different response to someone telling me that I couldn’t do it. My response was gen

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This week’s obsession: Cakesicles

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Sep 12, 2021
4 min

This week’s obsession: Cakesicles

What does leftover night look like in your house? In mine, leftover night happens with frequency. Not because I cook that often, but because I only know how to cook for an army. And I’m only one woman, so if I cook for an army on Tuesday, I’m eating leftovers for lunch and dinner on Wednesday, lunch on Thursday (but not dinner because I’d need a break from whatever I cooked - I thoroughly epitomize the phrase “variety is the spice of life” when it comes to eating). I would st

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This week’s obsession: Cake Stencils

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Sep 5, 2021
3 min

This week’s obsession: Cake Stencils

If there was any talent or a skill in the world that you could have, what would you choose? Personally I would have a hard time choosing between killer dance moves, and drawing. I actually had to take Drawing 101 as part of my degree requirement in college, and let me tell you I was LUCKY to get a B in that class. I thought I would fail it for sure. I’m pretty sure I got a B only because I tried so hard, but the truth of the matter is that I’m just not that good at drawing. T

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This week’s obsession: Mise En Place

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Aug 29, 2021
3 min

This week’s obsession: Mise En Place

Say what now? Mise en place. It’s a French phrase, pronounced [MEEZ ohn ploss]. It translates to “putting in place” and is a practice used by chefs and artists to organize their workspace and/or the composition of their artwork. Mise en place is an extremely helpful practice when it comes to photographing my workspace, as well as for helping me keep my cool in the kitchen. No joke, when I feel the anxiety ramping up (as it sometimes can when the pressure is on to make your de

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This week’s obsession: A Letter Cake

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Aug 22, 2021
3 min

This week’s obsession: A Letter Cake

I’m still the Cookie Monster this week, if you can believe that. (And of course still a little bit of Charlotte.) It’s more evident now than ever in the cake I made for this week. It’s actually an excellent blend of the two characters now that I think about it. My birthday was earlier this month, and I have to admit that I was in a god-awful mood about it. So much so that I didn’t even bother about making my own birthday cake, which as most of you know by now is my absolute f

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This week’s obsession: Cookie Trays

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Aug 15, 2021
2 min

This week’s obsession: Cookie Trays

What cartoon character(s) do you identify with most? And why? I’d have to say that I am very much like Miss Charlotte La Bouff from The Princess and the Frog, (I enter every room just like her.) (I use the same makeup techniques.) (She has great advice for how to get things done.) (We're both very enthusiastic.) (And have an excellent poker face!) But I'm also very much like the cookie monster: (For obvious reasons.) This week, I am mostly the cookie monster because I did som

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This week’s obsession: Cake Board Décor

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Aug 8, 2021
5 min

This week’s obsession: Cake Board Décor

Nothing inspires my creativity like the last minute. Usually I like to be the person who is ahead of the game and is set up for success, but lately more often than not I’m running behind on my baking projects and have to change direction because, well… I just don’t feel like it. I blame it on the exercise. That’s right. Every time I hit the gym, I don’t want to do anything else for the rest of the day. No cooking, no cleaning, no baking. But when one of my bartender gal pals

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This week’s obsession: Chocolate Whipped Cream

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Aug 1, 2021
5 min

This week’s obsession: Chocolate Whipped Cream

What are some nasty habits that you used to have but you’ve given up in your lifetime? Personally I used to bite my nails, drink at least one carbonated beverage per day, and I ate whipped cream that came in a plastic tub. Thank goodness I’ve given all of those things up! Especially that last one. I don’t think anyone would take me seriously as a chef if I still bought frozen whipped cream. I actually really love making my own whipped cream for desserts, especially creme chan

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