This post is totally unsponsored. Unless you count Pal. In which case, this post was sponsored by Pal and My Birthday. In my head I had reserved Monday’s for the cake portion of my new-found lease on blogland. And I promise, I will let you have cake. But first and foremost, I need to tell [...]
Chocolate Brownie Layer Cake with Coconut Buttercream
It will come as no surprise that when I want something, I tend to be rather relentless. Like the time I wanted an ABC Adventure Buggy. Well, this month, my desperate want/need item is a kitchen stand mixer. Because I love baking. But would love it more with something a little more powerful than my [...]
Dairy free cupcakes {Vanilla Bean with Chocolate Icing}
I am ever on the search for a (decent) dairy free cupcake recipe. A magical recipe that will pass at parties for the “real thing”, avoiding one, or both, of two things. 1) The Two feeling jipped because they weren’t allowed any actual cake – the glorious specimen that everyone else is eating; 2) The [...]
Mixing and stitching to recovery
Despite my generally dramatic disposition, I’ve always been quite a pragmatic parent. Feed them when they’re hungry, comfort them when they need comforting, change them when they need changing. The list goes on. And when tantrums tornado through the house, I have either appeased or ignored them as the situation required. In the process of [...]



