New York Cheesecake

Saturday bonus.  I’m not even a big raspberry fan, but they are just the perfect compliment to cheesecake.
This little number is for an 25th anniversary dessert party – how fun.  I’m tucking away that one!

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Saturday Shower

 Bridal Shower:  Cream and brown with fall colors.
Quarter sheet in carrot cake and cream cheese.  Fondant leaves, gum paste mums,  real acorns – luster dusted.
My fondant letters backfired but in the end it came out okay.  Definitely a good learning tool for the next fall cake coming up!

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Autumn!

Woohoo! The fondant leaves came out great.

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Monday cake thoughts…

I’m quite proud of myself – I bought a portion of my supplies for this Saturday’s cake AHEAD OF TIME! I’m going to get started on some fondant fall leaves tonight so I can craft them out now and color them later. And probably cry less over a food product.
I really need to [...]

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Farewell cake: papa edition

Very rarely do I make anything for my dad since he doesn’t really eat sweets. But he didn’t actually eat any of this one so it’s okay!  It was darned good cake underneath (underneat ha) if I toot my own horn.
Which was good because when you ask at the last minute you’re getting party sprinkles and [...]

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October extracurricular

I’m looking forward to another contest, yippee!  Just got the okay to enter in Kendallville for the Apple Festival next month as it’s not a county resident only event.
Since the judging happens immediately and things won’t sit around, I’m thinking it’ll be perfect for a cheesecake. I’m pretty sure I have my item decided on thanks to [...]

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Mini Perfection

I do not need another pan. I have enough pans to pop them in and out of the oven in a continuous cycle until the heating elements died with very little washing. I certainly don’t need a mini-cheesecake pan. But they’re so cute.

Someone asked about wedding cheesecakes last week and it just dawned on me [...]

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Popcorn Cupcakes

God bless the person who filled the candy jar because nothing goes better with cake planning than a Baby Ruth.
It’s unofficially decided that Braiden will have a birthday at the movies this year. There’s usually always something coming out right around that time we go see and this year is no exception (Madagascar 2!).
I [...]

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Success – grand prize for baked goods!

Okay, I admit I was super excited when I got the call
The icing’s holding up pretty well, it’s cute they tried to wrap it up though - who’s going to eat cheese-product that’s been sitting in a humid gym.

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Extracurricular.

I’m a little bit nervous but kind of excited. I’m going to enter a carrot cake for a fair competition tonight. I know it’s my favorite, I just hope it doesn’t look or taste like crap in comparison to long time bakers. I’ve never paid much attention to those things but looking through them at [...]

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