One of our family traditions each holiday season is to decorate Gingerbread Houses. This started back when my oldest daughter (now 10) was about 2. At that time it was a fun excuse for my “new mom” friends to get together. We ended up doing most of it while the kids went off to play. […]
Vintage Inspired Cupcakes
Last night I was up baking cupcakes for my daughter’s teacher who is leaving on maternity leave today. Every time I have a baking project I always say to myself that I don’t want to be up until midnight working on these things. Sure enough, I was! I wanted to keep these really simple. […]
Bat Mitzvah Cake
How was your weekend? Good I hope. If you’re a mom, I hope you managed to have the day off yesterday! Aside from Mother’s Day, this weekend was busy because it was my (sort of) niece’s Bat Mitzvah. I only say sort of because technically, we aren’t blood related but in my heart she’s definitely […]
Penguin Cake
This weekend we celebrated my little one’s 5th birthday. It’s funny how birthDAYs have turned into birthWEEKENDS! Have you noticed that with your kids? It seems to always be a 3 part celebration – a party in school, a family dinner with cake, and then a party with friends. I have to tell you – […]
Birthday Brownies
Yesterday I celebrated my birthday. Happy Birthday to me!! In our house, the cake is the most important part of the birthday celebration. Everyone always gets a special one decorated by yours truly. Everyone but me, that is. And this is totally by choice. Although I absolutely LOVE to decorate cakes, I don’t really like […]