Meet the ladies....part of our new family...3 backyard hens!!!

banning transfats in needham

Hey...I'm all for healthier options but can someone explain to me how suet, lard, palm oil and soybean oils are a better way to go than margarine or shortening. I got some samples of transfat free margarine and it has twice the saturated fat that a butter/margarine blend does..
Isn't moderation the key....

spring is everywhere!!!

my viburnam bush finally burst into bloom today and I harvested my first stalk of fresh grown asparagus..but being new england I guess we won't be surprised that the weather will be back around 60 degrees on wednesday.

springtime cupcakes

springtime "bug & flower" cupcakes...

more cakes

another one of our favorite cakes... the popular fresh fruit cake. vanilla cake filled with pastry cream (vanilla custard) topped with fresh fruit and finished with toasted almonds on the sides. Delicious!!!

a few of our cakes

I've been busy trying to create a basic cake photo album. This will contain pictures and descriptions of our basic cakes (not custom decorated cakes) to give everyone a better idea of what the cakes look like and hopefully inspire people to try something other than vanilla cake with buttercream.

Cupcakes...cupcakes...cupcakes

Some yummy cupcakes we had this week

The S'mores cupcakes were a big hit (graham cracker cakes filled with homemade marshmallow and chocolate custard..topped with more marshmallow that I torched)



hen everyone's favorite..our take on "hostess" cupcakes (but much better). Rich chocolate devil's food cake filled with homemade marshmallow creme and topped with dark chocolate ganache:




Finally some cupcakes we did for a customers bookclub meeting (the book was the zookeepers wife): They were strawberry, vanilla, and chocolate.