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Chocolate Beet Cake with Beet Cream Cheese Frosting

January 24, 2012

Hey Dude (that I’m currently dating), We need to talk.  It’s about your mother. Mostly… it’s about how I need to meet your mother.  We’ve been carrying on for a while now… and I need to meet the lady that birthed you, clothed you, slapped you upside the head, and made you the awesome man [...]

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Chocolate, Peanut Butter Cookie Dough, Toasted Marshmallow Cupcakes

May 26, 2011

I’m totally a good person to surprise. If you tell me that you’re stuck in Seattle working all weekend, and you can’t come down for my birthday,  I’ll believe you.  I’ll believe you, because I love you and you’re not a liar. If you tell me that you’re working away in Phoenix, and you simple [...]

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Vanilla Cupcakes with Chocolate Buttercream

December 3, 2010

Dating someone new means meeting all sorts of new people. Listen… I know I’m getting old and this isn’t my first jump into meeting the groups of friends, the work buddies, the casual friends, the bosses, the grandma, or the adopted dog of the strapping your gent that I’m dating.  Sadly, all this experience has made [...]

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Dear Thirty Nine Year Old Joy,

May 25, 2010

  Dear Thirty Nine Year Old Joy,      It’s 2010.  Today we’re Twenty Nine Year Old Joy.  It’s exciting.  My Facebook page is exploding with birthday wishes.  Cool but mostly gross.  I’m making a birthday cake.  That’s what that big mess is all about.   I’m writing you, Future Joy, just to say hello [...]

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Bright Red Velvet Cupcakes

June 24, 2008

I’m in the mood to reminisce.  This past weekend my Aunt Judy celebrated her 60th birthday.  I helped her celebrate her nostalgia-themed party with these Bright Red Velvet Cupcakes.  Before we get to the cake, let’s jump back some 20something years and visit Joy and Judy, circa 1985. My Aunt Judy is gorgeous.  Know how [...]

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