The Buttercreme Baker

Hey, Valentine

Valentine's Day goodies

Our signature butter cookie bedecked in red and white glacé.

And…

Triple Chocolate Fudge Brownies, a new addition to The Buttercreme Baker menu.

Le Chocolat Part Deux

This cake was a special gift for my mom, grandmother and sister for Mother's Day. The 'shoebox' was a luscious Lemon cake filled with Lemon Curd and the 'trinket box' was a delicious Devil's Food cake filled with Milk Chocolate-Cherry Truffle. Both were iced in The Buttercreme Baker's signature Vanilla Buttercream.

Complete with its own SKU label and pearl bracelet.

I hope all of you Mothers had a wonderful Mother's Day!

 

Le Chocolat

This life-sized (size 6) shoe is molded of pure milk chocolate.

The pearl and silver accent is made of gumpaste.

The elegant shoe is part of a special surprise for Mother's Day…stay tuned.

Tickle me green

St. Patrick's Day goodies here at

The Buttercreme  Baker

Our signature Butter Cookie iced w/ a sweet, satiny Vanilla-Almond Glacé.

I love the contrast in color.

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Key-Lime Cupcakes iced with Vanilla Buttercream and adorned with Candied Key Lime slices

The Buttercream was tinted a soft, avocado green in honor of the holiday.

I Heart Halloween

Halloween is by far my favorite holiday. I think the best part for me was spending time with my sisters, and now my daughter and nieces. We watch countless scary movies, eat buttery popcorn sprinkled with Milk Duds and ultimately make ourselves sick with all of the night's indulgences.

This holiday for me is very much how some people like to celebrate to get into the Christmas spirit; it's all about the frenzy of activities until the big day arrives and you get to relax and enjoy the fruits of your labor. I take my Halloweens very seriously.

These cupcakes were done for a Fall Festival at Madelyn's school. They were devil's food, chocolate ganache dipped and the spider webbing is white chocolate.

I think the next time I make these; I'll add a vanilla filling to them as kind of an ode to the Hostess cupcake. Gosh, I miss those.

Won’t you take me to…Pumpkin Town?

Okay, so I've been eyeing this amazing Haunted Pumpkin Village on Martha Stewart's website for ages wanting to tackle it but, not sure if I could do it justice. Going against my better judgment, I decided to slay the beast. Besides spending five hours in pumpkin Hades, the part that was the most difficult was actually finding pumpkins to carve. Apparently, there was a pumpkin shortage in Virginia this year.

We finally tracked down the perfect pumpkins for the task at the Chesterfield Berry Farm. They also had some very cute gourds I snapped up to place underneath my other project…

Because four pumpkins just wasn't enough.