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Cotton Candy Cookies

These pastel colored cotton candy cookies are as sweet as they look – made with a duo of pink and blue cookie batter and buttercream, too. I made them from a recipe in the new Jenna Rae Cakes and Sweet Treats book. 

By the way – stop what you are doing and go follow @jennareaecakes on instagram. I have a total crush on their bakery and all of their beautiful pastel colored-sweets, treats and confections. Their aesthetic is the dreamiest. I just need to visit Vancouver to try them in person one day. In the meantime, I have their cookbook. YAY! And I also bought their Liquid Cotton Candy so I could make these cookies. 

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Little Deer Sugar Cookies

It’s sugar cookie season! And these frosted fawns are a super cute cookie to sink your teeth into over the holidays. They are a variation of the soft vanilla sugar cookie snowmen I made last winter and love so much! 

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Sweet Sixteen: Shops That Ship Treats!

Thinking about shipping something sweet to loved ones this holiday season? Need some ideas? Well, I think I can help. This fun round up includes sixteen sweet shops and bakeries that ship nationwide. The list is mostly based on treats I’ve enjoyed by delivery in the past or by visiting their shops in person and I’ll walk you through why I love each one. 

Get ready for a sugar rush!

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Decadent Double Chocolate Pancakes

Looking for a perfectly indulgent way to kick start the day? Well, how about these decadent double chocolate pancakes for breakfast? Now, I’m a dessert in the morning kind of girl, but these would also make a pretty sweet late night snack. 

They’re made with mini morsels in the batter and more that are melted for an indulgent sauce to top them off.

 

There’s no holding back here. If you’re a chocolate-lover like me I think you’ll love these.

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Cute Oreo Eyeball Cake

Halloween may be my favorite time of the year to make treats. I love combining spooky and cute and serving it up as something sweet to eat. And this easy cake covers it all.

Check out my Halloween section for more frightfully fun ideas to trick out your treats.

Oreos are the stars when it comes to making this cake come to life. Separate the cookies and creme carefully because they tend to pull apart with some of the creme center attached to each cookie wafer. I probably ruined more cookies than I was able to separate cleanly, so think about buying a family pack to give yourself extra chances. And, I’m sure you can find a happy home for any mess-ups. ; )

To separate, very gently twist the cookie wafers back and forth in tiny movements to try to keep the creme attached to one of the wafers. When successfully separated, you may still need to clean them up. Use a toothpick to gently scrape off any residual crumbs from the surface.

Eye Candy! To turn these Oreos into eyes, you can use purple candy wafers and black M&M’s. Easy!! Green or orange candy wafers would be cute, too.

Gently press a candy wafer into the creme with the flat side facing up. Add a dot of white candy coating to the underside when you attach if you want to make them extra secure. Then, melt some of the purple candy wafers to attach the M&M’s. You’ll just need a small dot of melted candy coating to “glue” the two together.

Look how cute!

But that’s not all! The cake itself is stuffed with Oreo cookies and the frosting is speckled with crumbs, too. Let me show you!

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Werewolf Cookies

Wee Werewolf Cookies … Howl cute! These so-soft chocolate sugar cookies with chocolate buttercream are super fun for Halloween! You’ll definitely want to sink your teeth into a few. 

These cookies are quick, easy and kind of addictive. And you should totally bake some even if you don’t want to decorate them. I based them off these vanilla sugar cookies that I can’t stop making. They are so good!

The dough is scooped, rolled and then flattened slightly for a sweet little round canvas. 

Once the cookies are baked and cooled, scoop a small amount of chocolate buttercream on top. 

But how do we go from that to these sweet-fanged faces?

Let me show you.

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Better Morning Blueberry Muffins

What’s your favorite morning muffin? Mine is blueberry. Since I was a kid, I’ve always enjoyed them warm and right out of the oven – served with a little bit of butter, melted on top.

These are so good and will definitely make your day better.

Break them open and take a look at those berries! These muffins are made with a duo of fresh and frozen blueberries – Smaller in scale fresh blueberries and larger frozen blueberries – but you could certainly bake them with all of either kind.

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Cake Pops Book Anniversary

Hi friends! My Cake Pops Book turns 10 today and to celebrate, I couldn’t think of a more appropriate treat to make than pops that look like the book cover.

I can’t believe it’s been more than a decade of sharing these tiny treats with you guys and now officially ten years since the book was released. When I started making pops and giving instructions on the blog, I never could have predicted the impact they would have around the world. It’s been so fun seeing your creative treats, meeting you guys on book signings, and sharing so many smiles with you over the past years. Thank you for making this adventure so sweet!

Yay, I’m having a fun Cake Pops Collection Giveaway!!!

You could win a copy of all three of my books, my cake pops toy, kits and cards, too. Basically, everything in the photo below except for the candy jars. ;  ) See how to enter at the end of the post.

 

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All-Occasion White Cake

I love cake. But mostly chocolate cake. Actually, I will probably always pick chocolate cake first. My mom on the other hand loves, loves, loves vanilla cake. White cake. Wedding cake. That’s her favorite flavor. Wait, is wedding cake a flavor?! Sure.

Well for her birthday recently, I wanted to bake her a white cake. And surprise. I did not have a recipe here on my site. I have my go to yellow cake that is a forever keeper, but not a white cake. So, I obviously had to remedy that. And would you know, I’ve made this cake three times in the last four weeks.

It’s so good and you just need basic ingredients to make it. Win-Win!

This is basically a vanilla cake, but it uses all egg whites in the batter and not the yolks that give it a more yellow color.

Look at that slice. It’s a thing of beauty – bathed in buttercream.

And what I love even more is that it’s my new favorite all-occasion cake. It’s a great go-to for birthdays, celebrations, and anniversaries at home. You get it.

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Berry Lemonies

Hey friends! I’m sharing the recipe for these super sweet squares today and they are berry berry good. This crowd pleaser is based off my regular Lemony Lemonies recipe and I think you’ll love it. They’re like brownies, but totally lemony.

They are packed with lemon flavor and dotted with fresh blueberries throughout. And when I say packed, I mean you better pucker up because these are for all my lemon lovers out there.

Now, let’s grab our ingredients and get baking.

Done. Just kidding. But dang, these look so good. I can taste them through the screen.

Fresh lemons and lemon zest are key to sweet success when baking these. I used a grater for zesting this time and I don’t think I will ever go back. So much easier than a regular zester. And the best part about making them is that you don’t even need a mixer. Just stir all the ingredients together in a large mixing bowl and you are good to go. (more…)