Sequoyah's Birthday

So, Saturday is my youngest daughter Sequoyah's birthday and she will be 11 years old. She requested a Share Bear cake for her birthday but also wanted cupcakes for her class. After helping my friend Heather do some really great Darth Vader cookies, I decided to make her some cupcakes with light sabers!
They were fun to make with red licorice rope, dipping the ends in melted simi sweet chocolate! The cupcakes were vanilla (Sequoyah's favorite) with vanilla buttercream.

More St. Patty's Day Treats

Okay, okay, I will eventually get around to the potatoes and corned beef and the scones, but I wanted to make a cake for a get together with friends tomorrow. Note, this cake is not gluten free but can easily be made gluten free!
It is a 4 layer chocolate cake with vanilla toffee buttercream! I hope my friends will enjoy!

St. Patty's Cupcakes

So, tomorrow Cheyenne has a doctor's appointment in Ventura and we decided to bring cupcakes for the office. She really likes when I do this because she gets the leftovers to bring to school and share with her friends. She always gets a kick out of telling them that the cupcakes are gluten free......they can never believe her!

For the love of cake!

Last week a really great thing happened to me! I met up with a friend from my childhood (thanks Facebook!) and found that we were passionate for the same things....cake, glitter and holiday decor! It was great to share my passion with a friend and she suggested that I write a blog like she does. So, here it is. My passion for cake has come from years of my mom being a fantastic baker and born from necessity for finding some decent gluten free baked products.
My oldest daughter, Cheyenne was diagnosed with Celiac in 1999 and since then have eaten some horrible gluten free versions of cakes, cookies, brownies, etc. After I graduated from culinary school I started a business cooking gluten free meals for families and individuals starting out on gluten free diets and not really knowing how to cook or eat gluten free. I continued to get requests for baked goods and decided to finally give it a try, the results have been pretty great once I figured out which flours to use.
Today my passion is to create beautiful desserts! The photo above is a gluten free vanilla cake with a raspberry cream cheese filling.