Book Review – The Painted Cake
In The Painted Cake, Natasha reveals how party-throwers and pastry lovers can create incredible treats in their own homes using fondant painted with edible colors. Thirty recipes are presented for cakes, cookies, and cupcakes, and a wealth of carefully-selected designs range from classic to contemporary, quirky to lushly romantic, and include ones appropriate for all types of parties and levels … Read More ...
Book Review – Cake Decorating for Beginners
The ultimate compendium of cake decorating techniques for avid amateur bakers everywhere.
Cake Decorating for Beginners combines nuggets of advice and popular projects from books in the Modern Cake Decorator series.
You are taken through the whole process from the initial bake to icing your cake with those final embellishments.
Expert cake decorators Christine Flinn, Sandra Monger and Stephanie Weightman … Read More ...
Book Review – Family Living’s Holiday Favorites Cookies eBook
Colorfully iced, sprinkled with cinnamon, or chock-full of raisins or chocolate chips, cookies are always a favorite Yuletide indulgence. Here are 60 recipes for colorful, delicious cookies for holiday parties and gifts. You can purchase this e-book here.
… Read More ...Book Review – Family Living Classics Favorite Holiday Cookies eBook
Colorfully iced, sprinkled with cinnamon, or chock-full of raisins or chocolate chips, cookies are always a favorite Yuletide indulgence. Here are 60 recipes for colorful, delicious cookies for holiday parties and gifts. There are iced cookies, brown. You can purchase this Ebook here.
… Read More ...Book Review – Family Living’s Hooray for Side Dishes eBook
Once you’ve chosen the entree for a meal, your thoughts turn to what you should serve with it. Our 75 quick dishes will stand up to any main course and take the ho-hum out of mealtime in the blink of an eye. Chapters include Garden Veggies and more. You can purchase this eBook here.
… Read More ...Book Review – Cookies By Leisure Arts
Cookies (Leisure Arts #56025) is a handy laminated collection of recipes for traditional family favorites and fun party treats. Approximately 8.5 inches tall by 4.5 inches wide, the guide folds out accordion-style with 12 panels of information and color photographs. Recipes include Santa Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies, Snickerdoodles, Pecan Crispies, Mom’s Sugar Cookies, White Chocolate Macadamia Cookies, Old-Fashioned Gingersnaps, Favorite … Read More ...
Do You Have What It Takes To Be A Food Blogger?
Do you have what it takes to be a food blogger? We have all been there, taking photos of our food and posting it to Facebook or Instagram and then wondered if we should start an awesome food blog, because our food is so awesome. But do you have what it takes?
First thing you are going to need is … Read More ...
The Magic of Gingerbread – book review
One of the worst time to have writer’s block, is when you have to do a review and a giveaway!
The Magic of Gingerbread is written and photographed by Catherine Beddall. It is a great book for those that have always wanted to create gingerbread creations and tasty ones at that. Catherine gives you wonderful ideas on how to make … Read More ...
Super Cute Crispy Treats Book Review and Giveaway
CLOSED AND THE WINNER IS KAREY, I’M SENDING AN E-MAIL FOR YOUR ADDRESS. THANK YOU TO ALL THAT PARTICIPATED. CHECK LINK FOR INFORMATION TO PURCHASE IT.
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Growing up I was excited to get … Read More ...
A Giveaway of All the Crafting and Cooking Books You’ll Ever Need
At least it feels that way. Yowza to the bundles of books being given away from Quarry Spoon and Craftside. All your holiday baking, candy making and DIY gift giving is covered in these book prizes. For the first giveaway of books (which include cookbooks on pasta, candy making, brewing, pie, cocktails, cake decorating and making stuffed animals–see? I told … Read More ...
Cookies Every Day at In Katrina’s Kitchen… AND a Bonus Sugarlicious Giveaway!!
Every day for the month of December, the lovely Katrina of In Katrina’s Kitchen is hosting a blogger to share a yummy holiday treat. You can keep tabs on the cookies HERE at the I’ll Bring the Cookies page.
I even got invited to the party! I made gingerbread cookie rings. You can find the recipe HERE … Read More ...
Bird’s Party Magazine Winter Issue is Out!
Each issue of Bird’s Party Magazine just gets better and better. The Winter Issue is now out, and you can find links to both the free online edition and the paper copy to purchase HERE. To quote myself when I yakked about the issue on my own blog, “You’ll find ideas for a Winter Wonderland, parties from Hollywood to … Read More ...
Sugarlicious Giveaway… Signed Copy and Cookie Cutters and Other Prizes
Just thought I’d spread the word that I’m giving away one signed copy of my book, Sugarlicious, as well as some other Sugarlicious prizes, oven mitts, aprons, spatulas… And, I’m giving 5 winners some cookie cutters to get them through the holiday season. For details and to enter the giveaway, click HERE to go to the decorated cookie.… Read More ...
Decorating Cookies is on the Shelves! (plus, links to a couple giveaways)
I’ve posted about a billion, jillion of Bridget’s decorated cookies here. That’s Bridget of Bake at 350, but I’m sure you already knew that. Well, yesterday, her book, Decorating Cookies: 60+ Designs for Holidays, Celebrations and Everyday, officially hit the shelves! Woo hoo! In addition to her yummy recipes for cut-out cookies, all the basics of cookie decorating, … Read More ...