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This week’s obsession: Vanilla vs. White Cakes

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Nov 21, 2021
5 min

This week’s obsession: Vanilla vs. White Cakes

Y’all… I don’t even know what to say here. Actually I’ll start with a warning - if you’re reading this with children, or are in an uptight sort of work environment, or are uptight yourself, maybe save this one for later. This week, I’m keeping with the theme of being out of my comfort zone. Way, way out of my comfort zone. So very far out of my comfort zone, in fact, that when my client asked me to make this particular birthday cake, I originally said no. I have never carved

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This week’s obsession: Mini Pumpkin Cakes

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Nov 14, 2021
4 min

This week’s obsession: Mini Pumpkin Cakes

Thanksgiving will be here before you know it, and it seems that we have almost reached peak pumpkin consumption point. I used to tell myself that I didn’t really like pumpkin, but I think that really I just don’t like pumpkin pie, which to me has always been overpowered by the barely baked flour flavor of American pie crusts. Remember those Pumpkin Pasties from last month’s episode of Baking and Boozing? Yeah, I baked the crap out of that pie dough (plus doused it with butter

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This week’s obsession: Lambeth Design

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Nov 7, 2021
4 min

This week’s obsession: Lambeth Design

TRIGGER WARNING: Mega cringiness lies ahead in this post. I’m so serious. I was an angry ball of fuming wrath by the time I finished with this cake. I think it has to do with my tendency toward minimalism when it comes to cake decorating, but I am trying to push myself out of my comfort zone here and I ventured into (purposefully) uncharted waters as far as my cake design education goes. Allow me to explain. Do you have people in your life who inspire or motivate you? Who mak

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This week’s obsession: Macaron Cake Design

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Oct 31, 2021
2 min

This week’s obsession: Macaron Cake Design

Happy Halloween, everyone! I hope you have a super fun costume planned for trick or treating tonight! I don’t think I could ever top my costume from last year: But I found a creative way to dress up as a recognizable character AND stay warm-ish while surviving the cold San Franciscan nights. I dressed up as the fictional Polynesian goddess of life, Te Fiti, from Moana. In the movie she has long, mossy sleeves on her earthen dress and I knew I could make that into a cozy costu

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This week’s obsession: Design Transfers

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Oct 17, 2021
5 min

This week’s obsession: Design Transfers

Did you miss your letter to Hogwarts, too? I cry about it all the time. I would have been a model student at Hogwarts. I always loved the thought of using a cheering charm. And I’m endlessly entertained by this passage about Harry and Ron from HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban: "Harry slightly overdid his [Cheering Charm] out of nerves and Ron, who was partnering him, ended up in fits of hysterical laughter and had to be led away to a quiet room for an hour before he was ready t

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This week’s obsession: HP Popsicles

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Oct 10, 2021
3 min

This week’s obsession: HP Popsicles

We’re all familiar with the movie Office Space, right? So if I tell you that for the last 72 hours I’ve wanted to go all Office Space on the smoke detector in my apartment, you’ll understand what that means… It’s possessed. Truly. I’ve changed the batteries, reset the system, disconnected the base from the wall... None of it has stopped the beeping. Couple that with the fact that my parents are staying with me this week, and the defective smoke detector is in the guest room

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This week’s obsession: Harry Potter Mania!

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Oct 3, 2021
4 min

This week’s obsession: Harry Potter Mania!

Ok kids, it’s story time! Wayyyyy back in the spring of 2020 (when we thought this pandemic would be over before Easter - HA!) my Man Candy™ was told by the US government that he [we] would be moving to San Francisco. Not only did that news make me insanely happy, but it also gave me something to look forward to during those dark beginning-of-the-worldwide-pandemic days. That filled my little event planning heart with joy! One of the things that I started planning was my 35th

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This week’s obsession: Swedish Princess Cake

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Sep 26, 2021
4 min

This week’s obsession: Swedish Princess Cake

Last weekend, my Man Candy’s™ BFF from NOLA came to SF to visit for the weekend (boy there were a lot of abbreviations in that sentence!). It was so fun to have someone to show around the city and experience the fog with us. (Pro-tip: the fog has been named Karl, and you can follow him on IG @KarlTheFog, because that's the world we live in these days. His tagline says, "not all those in the fog are lost." What a time to be alive.) While exploring the city, we passed a well kn

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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: 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: 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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This week’s obsession: Buttercream Roses

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Jul 25, 2021
2 min

This week’s obsession: Buttercream Roses

I can’t believe it’s not butter! Does anyone else remember this hilarious ad campaign from the 90’s? The one where they tried to make us believe that a bright yellow, saturated and trans-fat laden, solidified oil concoction was extremely hoity toity and was something a ripped, hair flowing Fabio consumed from a spray bottle while eating his dinner rolls along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea? Oh wait, that's not Fabio. Surely with that example alone you can understand why g

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This week’s obsession: Chocolate Cubed

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Jul 11, 2021
3 min

This week’s obsession: Chocolate Cubed

Has one of your dear friends ever broken your heart? I mean just crushed you with a seemingly matter-of-fact statement? One of my girlfriends did that to me right as I was leaving Maui last year. She said to me, “You know, I’ve never tasted one of your cakes.” Cue utter devastation on my end. WHAT??! How can this be? Was there never a cake that I made when she was in attendance for its serving?? We verbally walked through all of the cakes I made while on island, and I think

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This week’s obsession: Red, White, and Blue

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Jul 4, 2021
2 min

This week’s obsession: Red, White, and Blue

Happy 4th of July, everyone! I hope you are out celebrating with your loved ones instead of scrolling, but in case you are scrolling for whatever reason, I hope to afford you a bit of eye candy with this super delicious red, white, and blue themed angel food cake. Isn’t she beautiful? Believe it or not this is the very first angel food cake that I’ve ever made. And while I was reading about all the different issues that people have had with this cake, I learned a tip about an

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This week’s obsession: Valentine’s Day Cookies

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Feb 21, 2021
5 min

This week’s obsession: Valentine’s Day Cookies

Have you learned a new skill in this last year? I’m trying to make sure that my entire time in quarantine hasn’t been a complete waste by reading tons of books, making time to catch up with friends, and even running and doing yoga on (rare) occasion! One of my girlfriends is learning the trombone right now in her free time, another one turned her jewelry making hobby into an actual business and is partnering with retailers in her area to sell her products (I’m a big fan of Th

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This week’s obsession: Heart Cake

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Feb 14, 2021
3 min

This week’s obsession: Heart Cake

I’m at that weird point during the year where I’m posting Mardi Gras stuff and every other bakery on the planet is shoving hearts and chocolates down my throat. Since Mardi Gras is basically canceled this year (even though I am faithfully listening to my New Orleans jazz radio station like it’s going out of style), I guess I’m at the “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” stage. The Man Candy has been calling this weekend a powerhouse weekend: Chinese New Year was on Friday (we at

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This week’s obsession: More King Cake

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Jan 31, 2021
4 min

This week’s obsession: More King Cake

I know I already wrote a post about King Cake last year, but let’s be real here. King Cake season happens every year, so we need to acknowledge that by eating more King Cake. As I was sharing my most recent King Cake (see above) with some friends and discussing the amount of King Cake that gets eaten during this time of year, I kind of think they thought I was joking. But one of my favorite New Orleans themed retail shops created a print that perfectly sums up the consumption

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This week’s obsession: Galette de Rois

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Jan 10, 2021
5 min

This week’s obsession: Galette de Rois

Happy Epiphany! Or, well, ya know, belated Epiphany (it was on Jan. 6). Not sure what you call it - or if you even celebrate it - but Epiphany marks the day when the Three Wise Men (kings) arrived to bestow gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh on the newborn Jesus. Epiphany also goes by King’s Day, Three King’s Day, 12th Night OR 12th Day depending on if you start counting the 12 days of Christmas ON Christmas, or on the day after Christmas, but where I come from it’s known

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This week’s obsession: Kiss It Goodbye

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Jan 3, 2021
5 min

This week’s obsession: Kiss It Goodbye

GOODBYE 2020!! You will NOT be missed! Usually when I say goodbye, I say it sweetly, like my farewell cake when we moved back to the mainland. Or this cake I just made for a sweet, sweet coworker who, after 10 amazing years working for this establishment, left to welcome an incredible job opportunity! We all know why 2020 does not deserve this sweetness, but do you know why my former coworker does? Let me tell you all about it: Once upon a time… (back in 2020) In a far away l

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