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Sand Colored Ombre Seashell Cake
Why don’t I just declare it “Beachy Monday?” Or “Summer State of Mind Day?”
I seem to gravitate toward beach-themed cakes. Because. I. Love. Them. As you well know, I make my home a little inland from the very southern east coast, and I’d be even more coastal if I had my way about it.
But this cake is simply GORG! I mean, it’s not enough that it has SEASHELLS…but it’s OMBRE TOO! And sand-colored at that. Friends joke sometimes that my signature color is khaki, so you know I’m diggin’ that background. But that’s not all there is to the adorableness…the Read More
Let Them Eat Cake: Sunday Round-Up for July 15, 2012
Hey, Everyone!
It has been a fun week of visiting and preparing, as we get ready to welcome a dear friend for a visit. But even though the week has involved a LOT of cleaning (what is it about a pending visit that makes all the dirt that you blissfully pass for days POP right out at you??) there have been liberal trips to the beach to break it up a bit. Add in dear times with family and fun times with girlfriends, and it has been one terrific week!
So let’s take just a quick look around this week to see what’s going on in the world of Sweet and Pretty. We’ll be back to our regular Read More
Ombre Sugar Valentine’s Heart Cake
OMG, y’all.
You know that I adore the genius, ingenuity, and hard word that is Erica O’Brien Cake. From the beginning of my work on this blog a year ago, I have followed her creative process through her blog with fascination. Right now, I’m captivated by her move across country and her hard work to get her new shop up and running in Hamden, Connecticut.
But in the midst of all the crazy that opening a business entails, Erica still finds time to be, you know, inspired, which just floors me. And she always seems to find inspiration from things mere mortals Read More
Let Them Eat Cake: Sunday Round-Up for January 15, 2011
Hola, Friends!
What finds you this January day? I’m in a cold, albeit sunny, locale, wondering if I’m ever going to get around to making New Year’s Resolutions, while the rest of the world is busy breaking them. What about you? How are yours going?
Well, if fitness is any part of your 2012 goals, hopefully I can inspire you to a little bit of moderation in that eating plan, for we are SURE to find some deliciousness as we look around for what’s happening this week. But let’s look at a little News first:
Last week, Read More