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At a time when I am feeling so blessed by all that I have, I am also overwhelmed by sadness as Thanksgiving was the last holiday we celebrated with my mother before she passed away three weeks later in 1998. This has also recently been a period of reflection.  I have tweeted about it with …

I ‘like’ several ‘cake’ and ‘baking’ pages on Facebook.  And I ‘follow’ a lot of talented cake artists on Twitter.  Recently, a gal on Facebook, we’ll call her Peggy Does Cake, posted a link to a great ‘Rose Cake’ tutorial by the talented i am baker.  As it happened, a coworker of mine (at my …

My eldest daughter turns eight today.  EIGHT!!  We celebrated her birthday last weekend CAKE POP style with three of her friends.  Four was a really workable number;  much more so than the fifteen or so I had the first time I did a party of this kind.  It’s a little trickier when you are both …