See? Even experienced bakers have accidents.

This would be the egg that rolled off the counter and onto the kitchen floor this weekend.

Easter Brunch

The morning started out with Chris having to break out the pliers to open the prosecco for mimosas when he broke the wine opener, leaving the screw part of it in the cork - still in the bottle. :) (He was successful getting the cork out via this method!)

Apple cinnamon muffins - turned out pretty good considering I used twice as much water as it called for. Totally misread the recipe.

Chris made a ham, swiss cheese and broccoli quiche. Quite tasty!

Easter treats

Made this 3-layer strawberry cake with fresh strawberries & buttercream for a co-worker.

These were little mini cupcakes for my friends Nanci, Jon, Zac & Carrigan who just moved into a new house!

Over the course of about 3 days, I made about 10 dozen of these little guys. Lemon with regular buttercream and spring sprinkles! All for Easter orders.

Football Cupcakes

I made these cupcakes for a co-worker's son's birthday. Blue & orange are his football team's colors.

Pound Cake

I'd been dying to try a pound cake recipe that was showcased on the cover of a recent issue of Southern Living. 1/2 pound of butter and 1/2 a dozen eggs later - voila! It's quite rich, but really moist and delicious. The recipe called for Strawberry Glaze to be swirled within the batter, but I used my mom's homemade strawberry jam. Delicious! I know both of our offices will be very happy to see this coming tomorrow!

Pizza

This is all Chris - I had nothing to do with this work of art! He's taken to making homemade pizza dough with some fancy high-gluten Italian flour, brushes the crust with garlic/butter mixture & uses really good cheese. We really like a thin crust, so he's been perfecting it for a while. He's done it on the grill before, but this one was in the oven - made for dinner while Heidi (my pizza-loving best friend of 25 years) was visiting last week. Delicious! (And that's Chris's new pizza peel that just arrived - he loves it!)

Homemade Bread/Rolls

Tried a quick bread recipe for beer bread. I was a bit concerned about how wet it was when it went into the oven, but it turned out great and was really good. Although, by day 2 - it smelled very much like beer! :)

Homemade wheat rolls - using my mom's recipe.