I’m obsessed with birthday cakes. I think EVERYBODY needs a birthday cake for their birthday, and not just a ho-hum sheet cake, but something really spectacular. I’m sure it comes as no surprise to you that for my birthday, I have to make my own cake, as no one else (ahem Frank) is capable of [...]
Valentine’s day was a chocoholic’s dream. My mom sent us a package full of chocolate a few days before and we downed that in one evening… And Frank requested that I make the brownie mosaic cheesecake for desert on the big day… AND, as if I hadn’t completely jumped off the deep end, I decided [...]
Last month was the month of blizzards. Certainly not as crazy as what the Northeast was getting, but about 8 inches in one evening is a lot of Kansas City. Frank worked from home a lot, so we ended up having multiple-day snow fests inside, cooking and baking wonderful things. But the most tragic thing [...]
There is a small blizzard going on right now, and I have the privilege to watch it while sitting at my desk and peering out my window. I LOVE the snow. It’s even nicer knowing that I don’t have to go out in it today (although I really should be shoveling the driveway…). Our furnace, [...]
Yeah, I know. It’s not Christmas. Christmas was, like, a week ago. And if you are like us, you were probably up to your elbows in cookies–either sweets you made on your own, or bags your friends and neighbors dropped by. The last thing you want to look at is pictures of cookies we made, [...]