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10/26/2026
It’s been a busy month of baking! These lovely lemon cupcakes were awarded the first place blue ribbon for cupcakes at the Queens County Agricultural Fair.🥇 They have lemon cake, lemon curd in the center, and cream cheese buttercream on top. 💛 The judges’ comments said: beautiful piping, good lemon flavor, and good cake. 😁
After the fair, I was about to dispose of them because they’d been out in the tent for 3 days, but an employee grabbed them out of my hands because she said she’d decide if she would eat them. Haha who am I to argue? 😅
Have a wonderful week all!
10/22/2026
We celebrated my daughter’s birthday this past weekend, and she requested cheesecake! It was perfect timing because it was Audience Choice week on The Great British Bake Off and the signature challenge was flavored cheesecake. 😁 I made this NY style cheesecake with a buttery graham cracker crust, topped with cream cheese buttercream, spiced apple slices, and a handmade fondant axolotl squishmallow of her favorite stuffed animal. 🥰
I thank God for my daughter who is such a blessing to us. She is kind, thoughtful, creative, smart, and fun. We love her so much! 💗
10/21/2026
Thank you Géraldine for ordering these special cookies for your daughter’s first birthday! 💗 It was lovely to craft all the little details for each cookie. She said all of them were wonderful! 😁
Hanbok cookie cutter from Nori Gelencser
10/18/2026
I made these pretty mini iced gems for my daughter’s early birthday party today. These buttery shortbread cookies have crispy swirls of colorful royal icing and were the technical challenge for biscuit week of The Great British Bake Off . The recipe says it only makes 36, but in reality, it made about 70 cookies!
For the orange shortbread
100g unsalted butter, at room temperature
50g caster sugar
150g plain flour
Finely grated zest of 1 orange
¼ tsp fine salt
For the royal icing
2 medium egg whites
400g icing sugar
Pastel purple food colouring
Pastel pink food colouring
Pastel yellow food colouring
Pastel peach food colouring
Pastel blue food colouring
10/16/2026
Thank you Annie for ordering this showstopper cake for your mom’s 80th birthday celebration! 💗 She said, “The cake you made for my mom was absolutely beautiful and received so many compliments! It was truly the talk of the night. Thank you for putting so much care and effort into creating something so special for her. You helped make this celebration and the memories we shared even more meaningful.” 🥰
Cake details: Vanilla cake layers with fresh strawberry and whipped cream filling with vanilla buttercream outside.
10/10/2026
Thank you Tiffany for ordering this special cake for your friend, Dalila’s birthday! 💜🖤 She wanted a cake with a purple and black color palette to go along with the magic themed invitation. ✨ She said everyone said the cake was so beautiful and delicious!
Cake details: chocolate cake with raspberry jam filling and strawberry buttercream outside. I used King Arthur Baking Company black cocoa to make the black frosting. The purple butterflies are made of edible paper.
10/09/2026
Thank you Emma for ordering this Wolverine/Logan cake and these cookies for your son’s birthday!! 💛🖤 As I was decorating these cookies, I totally had the X-Men cartoon theme song playing in my head. Haha it brought back memories of watching it on Saturday mornings at my grandparents’ house. 😅
The cake is vanilla cake layers with strawberry buttercream filling and cream cheese buttercream outside with a fondant mask. The cookies are sugar cookies with royal icing. Emma said everything was perfect as always! 🥰
10/04/2026
Today was the start of the Queens County Agricultural Fair and Blue Ribbon Competition! I entered this coffee & pecan cake in the spiced cake category and it won first place!!! 🥇 I was inspired by the first week of the Great British Baking Show The Great British Bake Off and the technical challenge recipe by Nigella . I made a mini version of it and I will share the ingredients proportions below. The judges said it had good frosting and a beautiful appearance! 🥰
(Makes three 4 inch sponge cake layers, but I only used two layers for this cake)
Ingredients
For the sponges:
50g almond flour
170g caster sugar
170g unsalted butter
3 large eggs
150g AP flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
Pinch of salt
1/2 tbsp instant espresso powder
1.5 tbsp milk
For the buttercream:
150g soft unsalted butter
320g powdered/icing sugar
1 tbsp DeLallo Foods instant espresso powder
1.5 tbsp heavy cream
1/2 tsp Diamond kosher salt
113g pecans, reserve 6 whole, finely chop remainder
09/27/2026
The scent of this bread baking in the oven was wonderful! Haha I kept sniffing the air in my apartment and I was so happy. 😁😆 I tried this new Sourdough Milk Bread recipe from King Arthur Baking Company and used my trusty sourdough starter, Carter. It came out so fluffy, soft, and delicious with a nice tang from the sourdough! Thanks Martin Philip for the recipe!
09/22/2026
Welcoming Autumn with this delicious homemade apple pie! 🥧 When I saw this recipe on King Arthur Baking Company, I was curious about the boiled apple c***r that was on the ingredient list. Would it add another dimension to this classic pie? The answer is a resounding yes! My husband commented that the apple flavor was even stronger with it. 🍏 Flaky, buttery crust dotted with sparkling sugar, tart Granny Smith apples, and a warm cinnamon scent, it’s a dream to eat. 😁
Have a wonderful week everyone!
09/17/2026
Happy 15th Anniversary to my wonderful husband! 💚🩷 What a blessing it is to have such an encouraging, funny, hardworking, wise, and loving husband. I am so grateful that God brought us together and that we can share all of life’s moments, both the sweet and the bittersweet. That is what this matcha tiramisu is, slightly sweet from the mascarpone cream, and slightly bitter from the matcha. I made Keroppi and Keroleen sugar cookies with royal icing to decorate the top. 😁
Recipes:
Matcha tiramisu: gail ng ✿ baking & desserts
Sugar cookies: Hani Bacova - Haniela's
Royal icing: Los Angeles Custom Cookies
09/14/2026
Happy International Chocolate Day!! 🤎 I’ve been wanting to try this recipe from Sally McKenney for some time and it was delicious! This Nutella tart with toasted hazelnut crust is decadent and rich. I did halve the recipe and made two smaller tarts.
One of my favorite hobbies is to go thrifting. I often find baking pans and tins at great prices. I found the 4 tartlet pans that were new for only $4! Who doesn’t love a good deal? 😁
09/13/2026
Happy birthday to my niece! 💜🩵 She requested a dragon cake with lemon inside so that’s what I made! When she saw it, she said, “How can anyone eat it? It’s too cute!” 😁
Cake details: 4 layers of vanilla cake with lemon curd filling and cream cheese buttercream with Satin Ice fondant outside.
09/06/2026
Happy birthday to my nephew! He loves Pikachu and Pokémon! 💛❤️ It’s great to see him growing up and playing with his older cousins. It’s always a fun time when we get together! 😁
This my first time trying a decorated chiffon cake recipe from Maddison Clement . I took portions of the batter and colored them with AmeriColor food gel. Then I piped each color on the bottom of the pan on parchment paper in the design of Pikachu. This Pikachu is baked directly into the sponge cake! I put white chocolate whipped cream and raspberries in between the layers. It was a very light and not too sweet cake. 😉
09/02/2026
Carter the starter is back again with this lovely sourdough bread loaf! I decided to do an experiment and leave the cover on my Dutch oven the whole baking time. It resulted in a softer crust and it was less browned. Haha my husband liked it a lot better since it was easier on his jaw. 😅
I gave extra sourdough starter to 2 people in my neighborhood “Buy Nothing” group yesterday. I think I may have given starter to more than a dozen people so far. Soon there will be many more loaves made from Carter! 😁
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Just Add Kare is a dessert shop and restaurant located on Queens Boulevard that specializes in custom cakes, cupcakes, and choux au craquelin. Their ube cake with homemade mango curd and whipped cream is a must-try for anyone who loves this unique flavor. One satisfied customer ordered an ube birthday cake and cupcakes for her daughter's special day, which were frosted in whipped cream in purple and white with gold pearls. The family loved the ube flavor so much that the cake layers were also ube flavored, while the cupcake frosting was made with ube buttercream. Another impressive creation from Just Add Kare was their illusion cake inspired by ramen noodles, which was featured on the Great American Baking Show. Despite being pressed for time, the team at Just Add Kare managed to create a stunning cake with fondant noodles and various toppings held up by chopsticks. With such creativity and attention to detail, it's no wonder why Just Add Kare has become a go-to destination for dessert lovers in Queens Boulevard.
