Lately I have been binge watching old BBC murder mystery series, and one of the recurring themes, aside from the copious amounts of tea and beautifully manicured cottage gardens, are the town bake-offs. I have lost count of the number of people that have keeled over dead after eating a heaping forkful of Victoria Sponge….
Tag: Buttercream
Coconut Sugar Cookies
My Coconut Sugar Cookies are not as coconut-ty as they could be, in fact, the only coconut I use in my dough is coconut extract. Normally I would top my buttercream with shredded coconut, but as I am baking these cookies for Easter, I decided on pastel piped buttercream instead. I confess to owning a…
Garden Gnome Funfetti Cake
My sister was born on the Day of the Three Kings, the Feast of the Epiphany, or the Twelfth Day of Christmas also referred to as the Twelfth Night, not that any of that really mattered when it came to this year’s birthday cake. It has been a long running family joke that the shortest…
The Ephemeral Bee 