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

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

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

Did you watch the episode of How I Met Your Mother where they figuratively shatter each other’s glass? Basically they pointed out one another’s REALLY annoying traits to each other; traits that somehow no one else in the friend group noticed until that moment when it was finally said out loud. The sound effect paired with this realization was the sound of shattering glass. For example, one character pointed out that another character chewed so loudly that it was like listenin

I feel like 2020 has been more than enough to deal with so I don’t want to offer any tricks to you. That must mean that you’re getting a treat! That’s right, I have a brownie recipe waiting for you at the bottom of this post. Woohoo! But before we get to the recipe, I want to share with you my treat this week: The Sorting Hat! In the HP book series, Harry Potter's boarding school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, had 4 “houses” that the students were divided into b

Friends, there’s no easy way to tell you this, but... I’ve been holding out on you. Sorry, y'all. We’ve talked about the joys of Italian buttercream, and we’ve oohed and ahhed over its silkiness and just general other worldly tastiness, but what I haven’t told you is: IT. GETS. BETTER. That’s right. There’s something out there that’s better than Italian Buttercream. But before I tell you what it is, I want to share another little something that I’m super excited about and hop

Have I mentioned to you that I’m a nerd? I know, I’m sure that’s coming as a huge shock because in my writing I present myself as one of the coolest people on the planet. But in all actuality I am a Harry-Potter-obsessing, giggle-at-my-own-terrible-jokes, musical-theater-loving, recite-the-alphabet-backwards-and-in-French-because-I-can, look-at-this-science-stuff-isn’t-it-cool, read-extra-books-outside-of-class (or in my adult life, outside of Book Club) for-funsies type of n

Y’all, things got kinda out of hand the other night... In all honesty, I already felt bad for chopping up this cute little lady ghost of mine to serve for dessert, but then she ended up with a knife in her head/whole body and I actually felt the need to apologize. To a cake. ::facepalm:: One of my guests even turned her cute little smiley face into a frown to reflect the seriousness of the situation, which only increased my desire to apologize. It was a mess. I guess I should