Did you know that October 10 is National Cake Decorating Day in the USA? Immediately my thoughts went to Diego’s cupcakes in Know You More, book 1 in my Savannah Sweethearts series. Perhaps cupcakes are not all that Diego knows to make, but he is known for them in his circle of friends at Riverside Chapel, where he is the pastor. Hint: he also makes delicious pancakes, according to Heidi Wei, his best friend’s sister.
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Let’s talk about cakes and desserts!
I am amazed at all the cupcake photos that I see from time to time. Creative bakers really go all out when they put chocolate pianos or fondant sewing machines on top of cupcakes, as well as realistic looking icing flowers. They look too pretty to eat. Almost!
(1) Do you like cakes? What kind of cakes do you like?
I have to admit that I haven’t baked a cake (or a pie, for that matter) in years. It seems easier to let a bakery out there do it for me (for a price). However, my most memorable baking experience was when I baked giant cinnamon buns. Actually, I didn’t know the yeast would rise that high and the buns would somehow be supersized in my oven. I had to bake them in batches, they were so big. Wish I had photos of them before we devoured them all. Those were the days when I could eat anything and not gain weight.
(2) Do you bake cakes? Do you decorate them elaborately?
Since I don’t bake desserts much, I let my fictional characters do the work. In Call You Home, the last novel in my Savannah Sweethearts series, we find that Piper’s Place is know for its cupcakes, among other delicious food. Many of the scenes are in Piper’s restaurant and kitchen, while some other scenes are on Jerome’s riverboat kitchen and in Isaac’s food truck galley kitchen. Piper and Isaac both prefer to cook savory dishes, but Piper’s Place outsource some of their non-cupcake desserts to local bakeries who deliver them at the crack of dawn before the morning customers trickle in (although the restaurant opens around the clock).
(3) Do you like to read novels with wedding and/or wedding receptions in them?
While not all romance novels have wedding scenes, I’m bringing this up because in a wedding reception, we usually have…CAKE! If you have ever been married, do you recall your wedding cake and perhaps the cake topper?
I don’t know where we put our cake topper (it’s been over thirty years) but I do vaguely remember the cake we had, although I do not recall eating it myself. They told us we needed to freeze part of the cake for one year. Did you do that? I kid you not, one year later, the cake portion came out of the freezer with freezer burns, and it was inedible. We had to buy a new cake to celebrate our wedding anniversary.
(4) Do you like to read novels with cooks and chefs in them?
Sometimes authors will include recipes at the back of their books, or even publish a standalone cookbook filled with recipes from their fictional story world. Do you buy those cookbooks? Have you made dishes out of the recipes? I remember some novels I’ve read in another genre in which the dishes at the back of the novels had similar sounding names as the title of the novel. I thought that was clever!
I do like to write about chefs and cooking. Other that Call You Home, I have another chef in Sing with Me (Seaside Chapel Book 3). The very latest book of mine, this long novel tells the story of personal chef Skye Langston who ends up cooking for her friend’s older brother, widowed billionaire Diehl Brooks, when he stays all summer at his sister’s beach house on St. Simon’s Island by the Atlantic Ocean. There could be more chef books to come, since someone else I wrote about in Call You Home is looking for a kitchen to cook in… If you have read Call You Home, you’d probably know to whom I’m referring. Maybe I’ll get to his story soon…
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I don’t bake cakes but I like to eat them. There is something special about a beautiful wedding cake. My favorite part is the icing. I love almond flavoring in the icing and I cannot resist eating the pretty flowers!
I love baking but haven’t done any in years. Hopefully soon I can bake again. I do remember our wedding cake. It tasted good but I only got the little piece we shared. I love reading books that include recipes and bakers and chefs. Since cooking and baking are my favorite things, I do like buying stand alone cookbooks that contain the recipes also from the books.
I don’t bake so much, but I love cakes! I’ve read Lizzy and Jane from Katherine Reay a while ago. I love books about cooking and baking. So, I’m curious about your book!
I don’t bake but love cakes. I like reading novels involving a wedding and/or a wedding reception.
As I have aged my body no longer to,erases sugar. So I have had to modify my baking.
I do bake cakes, not very often, though! I do NOT decorate them!! I will ice them, usually, but I don’t decorate. My Mom used to decorate cakes she made for us. I like to eat cakes, too! My favorite is one my Mom used to make for me. It was a white cake, then she’d put sliced strawberries and white icing between the layers, and then ice the whole cake after putting more strawberries on top. She used to make a great chocolate cake, too. Mom doesn’t bake any more, as she’s 96 and doesn’t see well. I love to read about weddings in books, and bakeries!! So much better to read about them, as that way I don’t gain weight!
I’ve baked more in the past 2.5 years since going sugar-free than I had for years, since there’s no guilt! But elaborate cake decorating is best left for someone else. I often don’t put on any frosting at all. I just love the cake LOL
1. I’m really not a cake person. I would much rather have a pie any day of the week. Unless cheesecake counts as cake? ;)
2. I don’t bake a lot of cakes, except at birthdays. I’m terrible at decorating, so no, definitely no elaborate decorating here.
3. I do like to read about wedding receptions, though it’s not necessary. I loved my cake topper, which was the cutest Precious Moments figurine with the groom holding the bride. I was a Precious Moments collector, and it went perfectly with my colors of lilac and yellow.
4. I do like to read about chefs and cooks. I personally am not that great of a cook, though I have learned how to bake better. But I love to read about food. ;) My youngest son calls himself a chef. We will watch a lot of baking shows together.
I bake boxed cake mixes which I think taste better than bakery cakes. But I don’t decorate them. When I need a special cake I get one from the bakey.
I enjoyed the pics in your post. Those are some beautiful cakes.
I love cooking and baking is my absolute favorite but sorry to say I don’t have one artistic bone in my body so while the food tastes great it is not picture worthy in the slightest lol.
Mostly, I bake box cakes. But I recently made a cake from scratch. It was a chocolate cake made with zucchini. It was a recipe that my daughter, who bakes lots and lots of cakes from scratch, gave me. Chocolate, cream cheese frosting. They were delicious!
I Love cakes, with lots of frosting! I love Pineapple cakes, Carrot cakes, banana cakes, I love cakes! I have not baked a cake for awhile, my husband does alot of the baking now, he is retired and he loves to cook and bake. He does not care for much frosting at all, so when he bakes cakes, he does not frost them, he will add pecans to the top of them, in a way I’m glad because I will have 1 piece and he can have the rest, if they had frosting, I would be rolling by now! :) I Love reading about weddings and receptions . Yes, I like to read books with chefs and food in them. I’m not a great cake decorator, when my now 2 grown children were young I would bake a cake whatever they wanted and I would try to decorate them pretty, as pretty as I could. :) I love how the cakes and cupcakes you have posted are decorated, they look beautiful and they look delicious. Thank you for the chance. Have a Great weekend and stay safe. God Bless you and your family.
I bake cakes but usually only from a box mix. I do like to decorate them for birthdays and such, but I don’t do anything elaborate. I admire those with the talent to create edible works of art though.
I don’t bake cakes (or anything!). Love to see beautiful cakes and cupcakes. And eat them!
My favorite cake flavors are lemon and chocolate if it is moist. I usually only make cakes for birthdays., but from a mix. When my children were younger I would decorate themed cakes for them each year. I enjoy decorating cakes, but it is labor intensive and we don’t eat cake fast enough before it isn’t as fresh, so I haven’t done any for several years.
I do love cake…and pie…and pretty much anything sweet! :) Our wedding cake was a spice cake with cream cheese icing. We also had chocolate grooms cakes. The topper for the main cake was made of silk flowers matching our colors of green, peach and white. It still has a spot on a shelf in our living room. We kept the first tier in the freezer for our first anniversary and it was a waste of perfectly good spice cake.
We mostly buy our cakes and pies but I have some fond memories of cake from my growing up. My mom made a moist, dark chocolate cake with a cooked, almost marshmallowy frosting with peppermint flavor on which she drizzled melted baker’s chocolate to contrast with the supersweet icing. We used to call it her Jackson Pollack cake because of the way the baker’s chocolate was spattered over the white icing.
My aunt had a favorite spice cake recipe from the Settlement cookbook which she would make and mix in a can of Comstock apple pie filling. Yummy!
When it comes to decorating, I’m doing well if I can manage a decent swirl on a flat 9 x 13 cake! More power to the dessert chefs!
I do love to make cakes, pies, or any kind of desserts. They are my favorite things to cook. I do not decorate them elaborately. But I love to eat them. I do enjoy some books with a theme of baking. It does depend on the other content of the book also.
I bake quite often. These pictures look delicious.
I do not bake often, but I love a novel with a chef or baker as a main character.
Icing is delicious! I’m amazed at all the creativity some bakers put into icing. They can make it into artwork, even.
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What do you like to bake? I’m also curious about recipes at the back of cookbooks e.g. culinary cozy mystery novels sometimes have them in the appendices.
I don’t actually remember how much of the cake I was able to eat. I believe I sampled it when we cut the cake, and then we moved on to the rest of the reception, and then we left everyone else to clean up and pack up the wedding gifts HAHA as we left for our honeymoon. Nowadays, I’ve heard of the wedding couple not leaving for their honeymoon right away. Hope they get to eat more cake!
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Thank you! I have two books that have full-fledged chefs in them, and I’ve had to draw from my own cooking and kitchen to flesh out the characters.
Chefs Piper and Isaac in CALL YOU HOME (Savannah Sweethearts Book 10) and Chef Skye Langston in SING WITH ME (Seaside Chapel Book 3) have cooked some of the things I cook at home. I don’t write about exact measurements because I often just eyeball the ingredients. :-)
Glad you like cakes too! They are delicious…
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Same here re: wedding books. I wrote my 25th wedding scene in SING WITH ME, so I was quite excited about it. Sometimes I include receptions, sometimes not. But they are all fun scenes to write!
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Do you use honey or other natural sweetener instead? I also can’t eat too much sweet stuff anymore. I am supposed to lose weight so I have been careful about what I eat. In general, I’m not partial to sweet things, but I do like a piece of cake every now and then.
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Your mom’s cake with strawberries sounds delicious! And chocolate cakes are amazing too. I try not to eat chocolate cakes at night because the caffeine in the chocolate (and the sugar, of course), would keep me awake at night LOL.
My mom also doesn’t bake anymore since the stroke some years ago. She used to cook many delicious meals for us, and I miss her cooking terribly, but life goes on. These days, someone else cooks for her, so I am glad she can take it easy and not work about cooking and cleaning.
Your mom is amazing to be 96 years old. God has indeed blessed her with a long life! May God keep blessing her for many more years to come!
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That sounds great! Do you use an alternate sweetener instead of sugar?
I also just like the cake itself. More cake to eat if I don’t make room for the frosting haha! :-)
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Cheesecake is cake, as far as I know. :-) Oooh I love pies too — all sorts of pies, but especially apple and peach. What kind of pies fo you like?
I hate to admit that I don’t do much cake decorating either. I can bake the cake and to me, that’s an accomplishment already to get it out of the oven without burning it LOL.
Precious Moments wedding figurines are very cute! We didn’t think through our wedding too much bc I was still in college, and I had semester finals a couple of weeks before the wedding, so whatever happened, happened. I think I take way more time to plan my book weddings than my own wedding LOL. I don’t know where the wedding topper is now but there are two doves on it, IIRC.
Have you watched Chopped? I used to watch it a lot with my son. We would guess who would not make it to the next round LOL. When we had cable TV, I watched a lot of Food Network shows, but before that it was Jacques Pepin on PBS. I have several of his cookbooks and to this day, I would cook several of his dishes each month, among others.
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Thank you! When I was selecting photos from stock image sites, I was going, “I want to eat that!” LOL.
I also like cake mixes. IMHO they are easier for me to manage than working out everything from scratch (I cook more dishes than I bake desserts). Every now and then I get away with the 1-minute cake-in-a-cup that can be microwaved, e.g. brownies and fudge. But they are not the same as a real big cake.
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Well, that is the most important cooking result: “the food tastes great.” Sometimes I watch cooking shows and I wonder if the dishes they show are any good at all, or whether they’re just for the camera, you know.
I usually don’t take photos of what I cook either because I don’t plate them well. By the time I finish cooking, I’m already tired from having to stand in the kitchen the whole time, so I’m just glad that I did not burn the food HAHA.
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That sounds healthy! I haven’t tried baking a cake with zucchini as an ingredient, and I’m waiting to try those zucchini pastas as well.
That’s great that your daughter can bake a cake from scratch. That’s a rare thing these days with easy peasy cake mixes in the store. Or, in my case, baked and decorated cakes in the bakery I can just buy and eat right away. And not know what’s in them, you know!
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I love to read books with weddings and wedding receptions in them. I like that HEA.
I’m not a baker myself but I love sweets, esp Russian Cakes, Napoleon is my favorite :)
That sounds wonderful that your hubby can cook and bake. Mine does not cook in the house but he will occasionally grill outside. I enjoy those days bc I don’t have to cook — but I still have to clean up the kitchen afterwards. :-)
I have a wedding in every romance book I write. I love writing about weddings, especially beach weddings. Since I have chefs in my books, I try to give them some time (occasionally LOL) with the reception.
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I think they are talented too. I sometimes see videos of them on FB and they are quite amazing.
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They are lovely. I’ve seen some incredibly creative cupcake designs also. Yes, I also like to eat them LOL!
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I don’t remember the last time I actually decorated a cake beyond slathering some sort of icing on top without a proper design, but I know I wasn’t very good at it. I’m good at eating it though LOL. I agree that it’s labor intensive. And yes, we would eat the cake before I could ever get to decorating it.
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I love cakes and cupcakes. I bake both. I am not a decorator. I ordered a 1/2 sheet cake today. My Mom has been in a rehabilitation center since the end of August. She is coming home on Tuesday. My husband and I will be celebrating our 32nd wedding anniversary on Wednesday. We will be having a very small gathering to celebrate. Thank you for the opportunity.
My great Aunt taught me to decorate cakes when I was young but that was way before fondant came out! I’m not much of a cake person though. I prefer pies. I do have a couple of cake recipes that I like and I created one out of a box mix a few months ago that was awesome! I rarely use box mixes (or eat cakes as a whole) because they are too dry for my taste. But then again, I am an avid baker! I used to give gift boxes as Christmas gifts, and platters to several offices & friends. I usually made at least a dozen kinds of cookies, several candies, both quick breads, and different yeast breads, and sometimes snacks (like a homemade cheese twist) and often a hard salami I have made for years. My family has a tradition of cinnamon rolls for Christmas breakfast so I always make them for everyone. Even with my sister’s kids having families of their own they still want to keep the tradition so I just need to make more…..and between the 3 of them they have 12 kids!! For a couple of years I made cookies for the family care center our church runs so clients could munch on them. They’re only open one night but that meant I got to bake about 20 dozen cookies every week while only keeping a few in the house so we didn’t overeat! It was so much fun! Some health issues have stopped much of my baking in the last few years but I can still do things that don’t require standing for too long at a time. Yeast breads are good because of rising times. I like to cook almost as much as baking so yes, I love books with cooks & bakers in them!
That sounds like a delicious wedding cake! Did your aunt make the cake?
I don’t know where the cake-in-freezer idea came from, but yeah, we should have probably eaten it all up when we came home from our honeymoon. Haha!
Sounds like your mom is an amazing baker or shall we say pastry chef by the way you described the chocolate cake that sounds heavenly!
Even though I paint and draw, when it comes to cake decorating, I give myself an F minus or maybe even Incomplete because my skill is just not there LOL.
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Your choice of things to bake sounds fun! Do you make the desserts at Christmas time as gifts to family?
We have been making cookies every Christmas ever since we got on Dave Ramsey’s plan that says “just send a card” or something frugal like that. Whenever a family member wonders what happened to giving presents, we just blame Ramsey LOL. The thing with baking cookies for Christmas is that we always have to make extra batches because (ahem!) we have to test them out first… :-)
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Yes, I agree about the stock photos. I found more, but I didn’t want to pile them all up since I was supposed to write words too LOL. I spent time looking at images of desserts!
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Thank you for your comments. I also like read about bakers and chefs. They are more prevalent in cozy mystery novels (which I do not write). Fun!
Have you read my two beach town novels with chefs in them? Call You Home (Savannah Sweethearts Book 10) and Sing with Me (Seaside Chapel Book 3).
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I love weddings and HEA also! In fact I think I like HEA more than HFN!
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That sounds delicious! I don’t think I’ve ever tried Russian cakes. I had to google and it says “decadent” — sounds rich and sweet. That’s how desserts should be, right!
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Happy anniversary! I hope that you’ll have a wonderful time celebrating…and have cake!
Praise the Lord that your mom is coming home. I pray that all is well and that God will bless her with strength and health.
Nice to hear that you bake both. I sometimes bake but I am definitely not a good decorator even if I tried my best LOL. I’ll be doing well not to burn anything in the oven LOL.
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Wow! You are amazing! I was counting all the things you can bake and it seems like you have a whole bakery right there. And what a generous heart you have to share your baking skills with your family, church, and community.
The closest thing I get to a bakery these days is to put one inside Piper’s Place, the restaurant that is in all my fictional Savannah Sweethearts books. However, in real life, thanks to COVID, I have not gone to a bakery most of this year.
I love pies too! However, I can’t do them justice when I try to bake them. So I get apple pies from the stores. I am happy to outsource them. However, I have to get on the treadmill extra times when I eat pies. I won’t admit how much apple pie I can really eat in one sitting…
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No, my aunt had passed away a number of years before we were married. The caterer was a lady from our church who did a marvelous job. My mom’s specialty was main dishes more than dessert but she had a few that were great hits. She would make a version of Mississippi Mud Pie for one of our extended family Christmas gatherings each year. It had a rich brownie base with shredded coconut in the mix, slathered with marshmallow Fluff and chocolate icing while it was still warm then topped with walnut halves. Pecans would work nicely, too. Thoroughly addictive.
My wife and I came across a cake recipe several years ago that we have made for a number of special occasions. A basic yellow cake, poked and soaked with sweet coconut cream, topped with heavy whipping cream, sweetened and whipped extra stiff and topped thickly with frozen shredded coconut (not the sweetened baker’s kind). I don’t generally like coconut as a flavor but that cake I will eat happily!
My house often smelled like a bakery! I would start my Christmas baking by the end of October with the most freezer friendly things. It’s funny because my husband thought it was strange to work so hard to give everything away. But by the time we got to about the 4th person we handed stuff to he started thinking differently! He started getting excited to do up another plate because he got to deliver! It gives me so much joy to share something I love doing so much! You know, with pies you can always buy the crusts and just put the apples, butter, sugar and cinnamon in. You can also use a muffin pan to make individual size ones or a mini loaf pan for 2. Then you can freeze all but one per person for another time, either prebaked or finished. If you bake each time you pull out of the freezer you get that smell every time. I have done that for my Daddy where it’s his favorite treat but has dietary restrictions. I try to get him to freeze cookies too but they are as good straight from the freezer as fresh so it kind of defeats the purpose! 😉 I’d love to have a year I could bake like that again. Not 50+ dozen of each but a decent variety… Maybe someday 💗
Im late. I like cake. Mum always use to make little cakes (cup cakes) we normally had pink icing (frosting) and either sprinkles or half a cherry on them. She also use to put cream in some and make jelly cakes (I guess you call it jello) with the pink jelly and coconut and cream in them.
I use to like the plain or vanilla ones but in America I discovered the red velvet cakes.
In Australia most people have a fruit cake with fondant. (I like the fondant but not the fruit cake). I enjoy reading books with cakes. My friend does cake decorating and makes some really pretty cakes.
I am the baker of the family, so I especially love making birthday cakes! I always make my husband a chocolate cheesecake for his birthday each year. I’ve never learned how to decorate fancy-like but have wanted to take a class if it was offered in my area. I think I’d really enjoy learning!
Cupcakes are probably my favorite because you can eat a whole cake without feeling guilty, lol! My husband likes to buy me some from his favorite bakery, the two that I love are carrot cake & red velvet cake. It’s always a special treat & I don’t have to share if I don’t want to :-)
No need to enter my name since I’ve read some of these books and the rest I’ll be reading. I enjoy your books!
I love to bake flourless chocolate cake with ganache, but I can decorate. My mom had a small cottage business decorating cakes when I was a teen.
You are very welcome and Thank you. Yes it is a Blessing that he can cook and bake I consider myself very lucky. He will not wash dishes at all , he has done it before but only because I was out of town. I sure don’t mind washing dishes one bit. He is also pretty good at not using way too many pots and pans, when ever I cook I use alot of pots and pans. Have a Great week and stay safe.
1) I love cakes, finding ones safe to eat without wheat and dairy can be a challenge, but a rich chocolate ganache does the trick! 2) Baking, not so much any more but since covid starting to experiment with baking with non wheat flours, okay results but still in search of a scone that rises, that would be brilliant to find. No elaborate decorating here, lol! 3) Not so much, usually there is so much stress involved though some are enjoyable in books. 4) Yes and I loved your interview with Piper. Thanks for the great post, now I’m hungry, hmm what’s in the fridge I wonder, lol!
Thank you! I have to do both LOL! :-)
Glad you and your hubby work as a team. That’s great!
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Both the cake and pie sound delicious. And with coconut too. Maybe some day you and your wife might compile a cookbook of family recipes to share with the world?
Over here, I’m afraid any old family recipes are all probably lost. The grandparents on both sides have all passed away. Neither our mothers cook as much anymore nor do they remember much of their childhood recipes. All lost to time, tragically.
However, there are many cookbooks out there with old recipes. I have one that one of my previous churches put together. Many of the church members contributed family recipes. It was a piece of history, for sure!
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That is a blessing that you enjoy baking for others. What great idea to freeze stuff. I need a better refrigerator for sure. Mine has narrow freezer, and only small pie pans will fit in it. It is no wonder that they discontinued this refrigerator (and why we got it on sale LOL).
Maybe you can put together a Christmas baking cookbook? Then others can see the recipes and enjoy looking at the photos as well.
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Hi – Not late! There are others who commented after you did!
IMHO cup cakes are wonderful bc they are already “pre-cut” in their little cups. If they put jelly inside cakes we probably still call them jelly over here — and jam. Jello is the jiggly dessert. Unless I’m wrong here with Jello/Jelly/Jam. In that case, then all of the above will do LOL. Regardless, it still sounds delicious!
I have tried red velvet cake. I hate to admit that I like all sorts of cakes, but I have to get on the treadmill to pay the price LOL!
At Christmas, they still sell fruitcakes over here. I once bought one from Costco, knowing it was much maligned. It was super dense and filled with super sweet things inside, including nuts. It was interesting. As with all things Costco, it was huge. So we had to eat it for days to finish it.
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Thank you so much for your comments! That’s a good way to look at cupcakes. Gives new meaning to “have your cake and eat it too” LOL!
I like carrot cake too. I saw photos of red velvet cakes in a cupcake once. It might have been on Pinterest. Most of the cupcakes I’ve had seem to be plain inside!
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Wow. That’s cool! My mom baked cakes but did not decorate them. She doesn’t bake anymore these days.
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Glad you enjoyed Piper’s interview! It took a while to write Piper’s story bc hers is she last novel in my Savannah Sweethearts series, but she has appeared in every single book since the prequel.
I can’t have wheat and dairy either but sometimes I get away with cake LOL and I just try not to eat too much of it. I think there are cakes made with almond flour or some other non-wheat flour?
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Yes, I would have been lost without of a second freezer! I always wished I had a big chest freezer but the small one I have worked. There are some things that don’t freeze well but most cookies come out tasting like they were just baked!
I have had several people suggest I write a cookbook before. It would work for my baked goods where I follow recipes for most of them. Cooking on the other hand, not so much. I used to chew at my Grandma every time I tried to get recipes from her where she always said, just enough until the consistency is right or well, you know, until it looks like the right color. The first time one of my friends wanted one of my recipes and said, Do you ever measure anything?? I actually ran to Grandma all excited. I knew that meant I was now a great cook! lol At least I can throw together something out of nothing, and it almost always tastes good!
I love cake espically ice cream cake. My family makes cakes all the time.