You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Woodland critters?!? How could you not think of the holidays with these cuties? As we speak, I’m currently sitting in my hot LA kitchen conjuring up a forested winter wonderland, with a blanket of snow on the ground, a moose and a hedgehog frolicking among the trees.
A new ‘hood for trick-or-treating! We can’t wait to explore the streets around our new home on Halloween night, and we’re already planning to pre-party with our backyard neighbors before the main event.
What’s up pumpkin partiers! For this post, I’ve joined a Virtual Pumpkin Party with a bunch of brilliant blogger friends from around the country hosted by the fabulous Cake Over Steak Blog.
Pull out those cake sheet pans, I’ve got not one but three Halloween cakes for ya today. The first one is a deconstructed sheet cake, cut up into sweet, screaming mini monsters with buttercream frosting.
Baking cookies for Halloween, especially these creepy skull cookies, always reminds me of the time that Gavin, my oldest, got the biggest BOO of his life!
Although it’s true that I love stepping away from traditional color palettes for the holidays (see upcoming posts with pink for Halloween!), I can get down with a candy corn theme.
Here’s the truth: I hate the flavor of candy corn. What’s that all about? Those little kernels are like…sugary, bland, boring-ness made from such hardcore corn syrup my teeth ache just thinking about ’em.
I’m going to give you a three’fer in this one post — yep, three-for-one font-astic ideas. Like that play on words?
We’ve met our new neighbors in the house behind us, and it turns out it’s a family whose kids attend my boys’
This Chocolate Molten Cake recipe is for my one and only. Besides loving chocolate and berries, he loves me, and he does a damn good job of showing it.
September was deemed cupcake month…by me! Cupcakes are just so fun and relatively easy, plus I needed something to ease the boys back into school.
Sometimes bringing the kids into the kitchen is a total disaster. Every food blogger I know has a story about the time the batter hit the ceiling or the mixer splattered eggs all over the walls.
As part of my Little Nerd workshop series, I had the pleasure of helping a bunch of little bakers to create these beautiful Ice Cream Cupcake Cones.
Introducing: Macaron Eggs. Don’t they have you hoppin’ right into springtime and Easter? The Bunny still “visits” our house, and the boys absolutely love these dark chocolate, ganache-filled cookies.
Is the idea of making marshmallows from scratch a daunting task? We’re here to assure you that – while it *may* be more than one or two steps, creating these goodies is really not as tricky as one might think.
