Butternut Miss it Cake!

Quite awhile back, I ran across a cake at Dozen Flours Blog, where she raved about this cake. I came across some cubed butternut squash the other day at the grocery store, and picked it up with this cake in mind.  (Isn’t it funny how we will find recipes and store them in the back [...]

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The Best Ginger Cookies EVER!! – Sugar Baby Review

Recently, I was sent “Sugar Baby Confections, Candies, Cakes & Other Delicious Recipes for Cooking With Sugar – By Gesine Bullock-Prado” in exchange for a review.   How lucky can one person be?   I was excited to rip open the package and dig this book out, and it does NOT disappoint!    Cooking with sugar can [...]

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Doll Birthday Cake

Oh, to be 8 again!!   But you know when you hit 8 years old it is a big deal!!   My Grand daughter Anna, wanted a Doll Birthday Cake for her 8th birthday, and I aimed to please!  The birthday girl was pleased and excited. Now, if  your kids are like my Grand kids, they lick [...]

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My First Wedding Cake!

A short while back, I told you that my daughter and I were doing a Wedding cake and favors for a wedding in December.  This is the first time I have done a wedding cake, and I was quite  pleased with the results and thought I would share the pictures. So, without further ado, here [...]

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Raspberry Miroire & Some Dessert ideas for your Holiday Table

Some of you may or may not know, that I have a dessert blog too!  I have a tremendous sweet tooth, and LOVE making desserts.  I recently made a Raspberry Miroire that I’d like to share with readers of Fire up the Oven.  I am providing a link over to my dessert blog: Delectable desserts.  [...]

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United Cakes of America – Book Review

Recently I was sent and asked to review:  United Cakes of America by Warren Brown.  A Collection of Recipes Celebrating Every State! How Unique! What fun!  I couldn’t wait to dive in and see what cakes went with what states.  Almost all recipes have big beautiful pictures, and some history to the origins, or an [...]

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My Grand daughter’s First Cake

My Grand daughters have been helping in my kitchen for quite some time now and regularly pick things they want to make. For Easter, the youngest of my grand daughters (Anna – Age 7) received a cupcake making kit complete with a cook book. And the oldest one, received a cookbook (Kid’s First Cookbook”), that [...]

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