Graduations & Baseball Season

This is 3-layer strawberry cake made for the son of a co-worker, who graduated from high school on Saturday!

I made these cupcakes at the last minute for a friend who texted in her order - my first text order! These are for her son's baseball team as they end their season. The white circles are fondant and I just piped on some numbers. Turned out well!

The quest for the perfect scone recipe...

...is still going. This was the best-tasting recipe so far, but they were more like flat blueberry muffins. I need a recipe that's more dense without being a brick. Still searching...

Rosemary Focaccia Bread

I made this focaccia bread for the first time today. It was hands-down the best first try of any bread item I've ever made. So yummy!

Mounds Cupcakes

I made these "Mounds"-type cupcakes for my mom - as she was here with me on Mother's Day - and she loves Mounds candy bars! Dark chocolate cupcakes, filled with coconut buttercream, topped with regular buttercream and covered with coconut flakes! Delicious!

Dessert party with friends

Little Miss Carrigan and her mom Nanci enjoying some chocolate chocolate chip cake!

Matthew & Jackson stopped playing outside with all the cicadas long enough to enjoy some treats!

This is what happens when my mom visits...

She tutors me in family recipes! This time it was my grandmother's coffee cake recipe that I've been eating all my life. Basically, a Kuchen dough recipe and custard, with fruit. We made apple, peach and prune - they turned out great!

Molasses cookies & chocolate cakes, oh my!

Made a couple of these chocolate chocolate chip cakes today...

...as well as about 8 dozen of these yummy cookies - a new molasses cookie recipe.