Party sweets, drinks and decor
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! With sugar plum fairies, holiday parties, and joy all around, this gingerbread house cake recipe fits right in. I made this adorable and festive sheet cake turned gingerbread house by cutting up a rectangular sheet cake. The result looks way more festive than the time I spent […]
Do you remember cruising the mall, passing Mrs. Fields, and seeing their HUGE cookies with frosting in the display cases? I always thought it would be so cool to receive one of those. So I decided to make my own cookie cake! Sometimes called a pizookie, because it’s baked like a big pizza cookie. My […]
I prefer a cake over a pie any day! I’m a cake girlie through and through. But it’s pie season after all… I wanted the best of both worlds and was so pleased that this crazy idea to bake a pie inside a cake came out seriously good! A Piecaken, as I am calling it. […]
By now, it’s no secret that I love turning totally random things into birthday candles. We’ve lit up cherries, vegetable candles, and made crayon birthday candles, but these walnut candles might be my favorite DIY this season. Did you know you can literally light nuts on fire and make your own candles? True story, I’ll […]
Now that the weather is dropping, this hot chocolate cake recipe is a hit with my party friends. Taking the cocoa mug cake trend, but making it an actual 4-layer party cake size, was a sweet way to celebrate my BFF’s recent cozy cold-weather birthday party. A cake that looks just like a super sweet […]
Last week, I tried making jam for the first time. It was so fun, and as soon as it was done, I put it on a cake… a jam cake! A sweet end-of-summer treat with a great combo of fruit tart and sweetness. This cake is an instant showstopper at any summer party. You can […]
One of my kids is obsessed with PB&J’s, so last week I made this peanut butter and jelly sandwich cake. I took one of my family’s favorite ingredients, gooey, creamy peanut butter, and recreated it as frosting. Then I added sweet jelly spread between two pieces of sweet cake to create a fun peanut butter […]
I needed a last-minute birthday cake idea for this weekend, so I gussied up a simple yellow box cake and turned it into this fun Animal Cookie cake. The frosted circus cookies didn’t just decorate the outside of the cake; they also made a tasty crunch in the batter. I created this for a sweet […]
Pumpkin carving is cool… but have you ever baked a cake inside one? Level it up with my fun trick to bake a pumpkin cake inside a pumpkin! Forget just scooping seeds and carving faces, this little trick might just win the crown for my favorite pumpkin recipe. And here’s the baking trick: as the […]
Twinkies are wonderfully nostalgic to me. I remember the treats as a kid, and decided a Twinkie cake would be a fun way to celebrate our recent nostalgic birthday party. Since you can surround any cake with Twinkies to get this fun cake look, the recipe idea works for home-baked cakes as well as store-bought […]
I am welcoming a new school year in with a sweet apple bundt cake treat. Made by stacking 2 bunt cakes and topping them off with adorable edible apple details, this fun Teacher cake idea has been a back-to-school tradition of ours for years. The beginning of the year is always such great fun for […]
These market-inspired fruit slice cakes I made for our farmer’s market birthday party were such a fun hit this summer. Nothing says summer party like the bright reds and oranges of my favorite fruits made into a cake. I love an individual fruit cake for serving at birthday parties, brunches, and showers. Instead of a […]