Author: Robin

Bacon! Never enough bacon recipes

Who doesn’t like bacon?  Next time you need to bring a side dish try out #18 BLT Pasta Salad on Food Network Magazine’s 50 Things to make with Bacon.  YUM! With any leftover bacon (is there such a thing?) mix with nuts, brown sugar, egg whites and cajun spices for #21.  Might be an easy kitchen gift too. …

Back to School Cupcakes

Whew!  We made it to Friday of the first week of school.  So we need cupcakes to celebrate, right? My favorite cupcake decorating book is Hello, Cupcake!  Their newsletter is also a great resource for ideas.  I tried to make their apple cupcakes, but couldn’t find the properly sized donut to match my cupcakes.  I think …

Back To School time!

There are so many ideas out there for Back to School.  Here’s one from How Does She? I wish I would’ve thought of when my son was in Kindergarten. I found more I’ll try to post over the next week or so for all those getting ready to send the kiddos back to school. Update: Check …

Teacher’s Gift: Pencil Bouquet

Still unbelievable after all these years in Arizona, but school starts here around the first week in August. I found inpiration from The Happy Scrap’s blog on Pinterest for this year’s teacher’s gift.  Check out Pinterest if you haven’t already.  Such a fun site!

Petal Cupcake liners

When you make enough cupcakes the liners take on a whole new meaning.  I’ve seen these Wilton liners before but wasn’t quite sure I was ready to move that far out on a limb.  So silly.  Look how great they are just in the baking tins alone. Even though I’m not a pink kind of girl, …

Back-up Plan

Sadly my first attempt at Bakerella’s cupcake bites didn’t pan out.  So I had to go with my old standby, cream filled full sized cupcakes. So yummy, particularly cold!  One 7 oz jar of marshmallow creme and 1 stick of room temp butter, that’s all it takes.  I cut a hole in the top of the …

Baby Shower: Decorations

Totally biased because this baby shower was for my niece but if you need a good sized decoration that screams ‘baby’, these blown up pictures of the mom & dad will be sure to fill up wall space. Finding similar aged pictures of the parents to be might be the most difficult part.  I used sepia …

Suggested Sites: Bakerella

If you love cupcakes for their small in size, big in taste stature, you need to check out Bakerella.  I love this site, not only for the great idea of cake pops but for the step by step pictures.  Her site is well followed and even spurred a book.  Blogger to Author, not bad. Here’s my …