Fourth of July Desserts

Most Popular Posts of 2012

December 26, 2012

Well, Christmas is over. I had a wonderful time visiting my family last week and then a nice, quiet Christmas with my husband. We stayed in our PJs all day, ate copious amounts of candy, and had spaghetti and meatballs for dinner. It was glorious. Now that Christmas is done, 2013 will be here in a hot [...]

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Rockin’ Round-Up: Fourth of July Edition

July 4, 2012

***Don’t forget to enter my Sweetstakes for a copy of Heather Baird’s fabulous new cook, SprinkleBakes: Dessert Recipes to Inspire Your Inner Artist. The contest ends TODAY! Go check it out….now!*** Rockin’ Round-Up is my way of sharing the awesome, hilarious, and/or irrelevant things that I find on the internets (which may or may not include any baked [...]

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Star Spangled Cupcakes

July 2, 2012

Ohh, those are nice. Pretty…simple. Just a nice, plain, Fourth of July cupcake. Nothing special…or are they? Ta da! [insert jazz hands here] I’ve seen a couple different variations on the type of cupcake floating around on the web and I wanted to take a crack at it myself. I kinda followed the steps from [...]

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Pinwheel Cookies

June 28, 2012

I’m sure you have already noticed that I’m a fan of fun cookies without icing (like this and this). When I saw LilaLoa’s tutorial for her Father’s Day bowtie cookies, I was excited to try it. So, I made patriotic pinwheels!

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Strawberry and Blueberry Shortcake

June 25, 2012

Shortcakes are special to me. My grandmother was the consummate baker of my family. Every year, she made my birthday cake – always a layered strawberry shortcake. Beautiful, simple, and perfect. She passed away the day before my 13th birthday. Making this cake was bittersweet for me, but I know that she would have loved [...]

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Firecracker Bark

June 22, 2012

Some holidays are way better when you’re a kid. Most of my Independence Days growing up were spent swimming all day, munching on the infamous flag cake, and watching a makeshift fireworks display. We never went to see professional pyrotechnics, but it didn’t matter – sitting on the cold grass, with a beach towel around [...]

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