The Sugar-Coated Chronicle

Welcome to my baking blog. While I've always enjoyed cooking and baking, it's only been in the last year or so that I've become ...

My family has always considered cheesecake to be part of a holiday meal so we always have a cheesecake on the table next to the pumpk...

I hope you had a frightfully fun Halloween! Halloween is perhaps my favorite holiday and I always love to make a cake for the occasion. I t...

This weekend there is a local cake competition here in Austin. Last year I went to "That Takes the Cake" and looked at all the fa...

This cupcake recipe is actually based on the pumpkin quick bread recipe from The Joy of Cooking . I've changed up the flour, altered s...

I'm not a pancake person, but I do love waffles. Mostly I eat them for dinner when I don't know what else to have. I can really eat ...

UPDATE Jan 3, 2015- Please visit the bottom of the post for answers to frequently asked questions from the comments. :) Disclosure: This b...

I'm quite behind on posting some of my recent cakes. Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions on my flickr page. First up is a s...

This is my favorite icing in the whole world (which is saying a lot because I'm not usually a big fan of icing). This is a traditional, ...

Emmaline's birthday cake Originally uploaded by anricat My daughter loves cows and ducks so I thought for her birthday I'd make her...

When I needed to make a strawberry cake, I had a heck of a time finding one from scratch. I didn't necessarily need it to use fresh str...

fairy cake Originally uploaded by anricat A friend asked me to make a cake for her daughter's birthday party tomorrow. She wanted a fai...

homemade biscuit Originally uploaded by anricat There are things I've made that are time consuming and require a lot of work and tec...

mini palmiers Originally uploaded by anricat Palmiers are some of my all-time favorite cookies. While my puff pastry dough isn't perfec...

There's something empowering about learning to do something on your own. You have to research and figure things out. And when you get st...