Time to Resume....

So, I've had quite a looooong break from this blog.  I think I will resume.  I have a lot of baking ideas and would love to share them with others and get input.  Hope to post a pic soon!

Homemade Doughnuts!

I made homemade doughnuts for the first time and they turned out AWESOME!  They were surprisingly easy to make.  My Better Homes & Gardens magazine had a pic of homemade doughnuts on the cover and my kids were going nuts over them and kept begging me to make them.  I caved.  I went to my local cake supply store and got me a doughnut cutter....and other stuff.  Hehehe.  I made homemade chocolate sauce and dipped half of them, and I also made powdered sugar and cinnamon/sugar.  YUUUUUMMMY!

Birthday Cakes!

Here's the Tarheel cake I made my son for his 3rd Birthday Party!  I think it came out really nice!  And it was actually really easy to do.  It's a red velvet cake tinted blue instead of red with buttercream frosting. 

Here's a pic of the cake I made for my son's actual 3rd Birthday.  It's a chocolate cake with butter cream frosting and adourned with homemade chocolate chip cookies!

Spices, Spices, Spices!

I have been in bed all week!  I am going stir crazy!  I have done a lot of online shopping, internet searching and eating crappy foods this week.  In my search to find new cupcakes recipes, tonight I came across this site http://www.thespicehouse.com/spices/.  It seems pretty cool.  And shipping was actually very reasonable--even cooler!  It was cool enough that I placed an order!  :-)  I went searching for dried lavendar flowers.  I didn't find any on this site but I did find lavendar vanilla sugar.  I bought some of it and Mexican Vanilla.  I cannot wait to get the lavendar and make some yummy vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting (maybe lemon buttercream) sprinkled with lavendar vanilla sugar....mmmmmm!