I got home from work in a panic ready to force feed my cat so she wouldn’t die and found her still on her bed in the office. But then she got up all on her own, walked to the kitchen, ate a bit, then went to her water bowl and drank for five minutes. [...]

From my apartment of the first snowfall of the season: In my kitchen as I work on a cake for Thanksgiving. I love my KitchenAid mixer!

Can you spot which one just doesn’t quite belong? I made M&M cookies with the ‘limited edition’ mint chocolate M&M’s. The recipe I used said it made six dozen, but I was only able to scrape out four dozen, plus the giant cookie. There wasn’t enough dough left justify a big cookie sheet with only [...]

Today, I went to the new ginormous Menards and bought a carbon monoxide/gas detector. I woke up this morning, after a night of horrible dreams that paralyzed me with fear, and thought that maybe my cat and I were slowly being poisoned by my apartment. According to the detector, I am just crazy, but maybe [...]

Some pictures of my cupcake creations from yesterday that my co-workers were privileged enough to receive. And presenting my new favorite baking accessory: The Cupcake Courier. It is so great. It holds up to three dozen cupcakes all nice and safe and no smooshing about. There are three layers, but I only needed two for [...]