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  It’s all the rage. It allows for so much more flexibility in cake design and figure modeling, and my GOODNESS does it taste delicious. This sweetheart cake decorating medium is none other [...]

Cakes of all sizes count. The big, crazy, gravity defying sculpted ones AND the teeny tiny little ones. Like these apricot and sweetened ricotta petit fours. Translated as “tiny oven” [...]

I shared my full Vanilla, Passion Fruit and Raspberry cake recipes (featured on Duff Till Dawn) with you not too long ago. But I wanted to give the vanilla cake I had worked so long on [...]

Southern Take on Chocolate Cake light chocolate cake, salted American style buttercream, and bourbon brown sugar candied pecans   Here it is! The final recipe from my appearance on Food [...]

May I introduce you to the Tonka Bean? Sssshhhhh!!! It’s not allowed in the states. At least not in it’s full natural beany form. So we find ways around that ridiculous regulation [...]

Vanilla cake. Is there anything more satisfying and pure in the caking world? Perfectly and gently flavored, beautifully tender, and deeply satisfying. Seems easy, right? NOPE. Sorry to destroy [...]

Oh yes! This is a drunken jam. And it’s flippin’ fanTABulous. It’s the only jam the hubs and kids like and I make tons of it every July/August when the black plums are in [...]

I needed to do some baking just for me. I wanted to play with a new flavor paste I got from Pastry Portal and I just wasn’t in the mood for cake of any kind. I’m up to my eyeballs in [...]

STOP RIGHT THERE! Don’t throw that broken ganache in the bin! You can save it (most likely, so long as it’s truly broken and not burnt) and I’m gonna show you how. I posted this [...]