Homemade Lego Candle Holders for a Birthday Cake

My son is absolutely obsessed with Legos, so for his fifth birthday I wanted to add a little lego touch to his cake. His favorite cake – the one he always asks for – is my Raspberry Lime pound cake, which has just a…

Cook the Collection #8: Falling Cloudberries

(Disclosure: The cookbook links below are affiliate links and if you happen to make a purchase through them I’ll receive a small commission)   Time to get back on the ball with the cookbook challenge – at this rate I’ll never get though them all –…

Lemon Blueberry Pound Cake

Apparently pound cake lends itself to endless variations: here is the third iteration of this recipe, and its also pretty dang good. I had a request to make Raspberry Lime Pound Cake for a birthday gathering this past weekend, but when I went to…

Raspberry Lime Pound Cake

  The man of the house had a birthday a few days ago, and I made one of his favorite all-time cakes – this berry cake I first made last summer. At the time I adapted the recipe from one I found on orangette.blogspot.com (who…

Blackberry Lemon Pound Cake

A few days ago we hit our secret blackberry spot again and picked a couple more pails of blackberries which have been in the fridge since then. I needed to use up at least some of them today and I wanted to try something…

Happy Birthday Baby Girl!

Today my baby girl turns five, and we made this cake for her party with her family tonight: Its surely a candidate for Cake Wrecks (although that’s professional cakes) but we had a lot of fun decorating it. Princesses courtesy of Vivi (FYI the…

Apple Cake

I think I was nesting today what with the snowy weather and the impending ‘snowmaggedon’ (which seems will not materialize). I hung curtains in the open doorways of our bar and family room to cut down on the drafts, and then baked homemade lasagna…