Greetings my fellow WordPressians! It is I, Melisa! It’s been a long time, hasn’t it? I’m not going to pretend like I haven’t been fickle and simply just not as motivated as I used to be, in relation to this website, of course. I still love baking. I’ve just been feeling a bit uninspired. I’m …
Category: Blogging
Tropical Homemade Coconut Ice cream
Coconut ice cream is one of my favorite flavors to devour. On the other hand, I feel very conflicted when it comes to choosing a favorite flavor of ice cream. I have yet to try a flavor, I do not absolutely love, but coconut ice cream is definitely one of my favorites. This recipe is …
Daily Prompt: All About Me
Explain why you chose your blog’s title and what it means to you. After reading my friend Christina’s post on her blog title definition, I thought to myself: “Why did I pick my blog title?!”. I just sat here pondering my blog’s existence and how it somehow reflected my entity. My blog’s title was not …
Healthy? You Mean Both Body and Soul, Right?
Is it me or this new health craze is resulting in a really unhealthy perspective in life? Everyday, my ears and eyes are being subjected to self-loathing and deranged illusions of females who insist that dieting will bring them happiness and inner peace. I can understand not being happy with your weight, body, and overall look. …
The Baking Enthusiast Award
Goodness me, another award? In all honestly, these fellow bloggers on WordPress are the absolute best! I was nominated by Elise from elisebakes who has a wonderfully sweet blog herself that you should all check out. From what I gather, this award was created by mydearbakes (another incredible sweets blogger) in order to award blogs that are …
Wilton Tall Cakes Course
In the beginning of December 2012, I was able to take Wilton’s Tall Cakes Course, and goodness, was it fun! This class is a three hour, sort of intensive course on how to build your very own tall cake. We were required to bring all of our decorations and cakes pre-made among the designated list …
Final Cake Project for Wilton Decorating Course 2 & 3
During the month of November 2012, I was attending Wilton’s Decorating courses 2 & 3. In these courses, we are taught to make flowers from gumpaste, fondant, and royal icing while using diverse baking tools ranging from cookie cutters, to fondant cutters/presses, and flower nails. And last but certainly not least, we’re also taught to cover …
Super Sweet Blogging Award
Teresa from Can’t Stay Out of the Kitchen nominated me for the Super Sweet Blogging Award and how convenient! Since I absolutely love sweets! Thank you, Teresa. Your nomination made my day! The Super Sweet Blogging Award requires that I answer some questions, among other things. So here I go! The Rules: 1. Give credit to the …
Bits and Pieces Apple Pie
Words could not possibly express all of the sentiments I am feeling right at this moment. I, I just baked an apple pie. WAIT! I also made the pie crust. But, wait! This is the very first time I do both of those things. My first time baking a pie from scratch and it is …
Wilton Course 2 and 3 (Week 2)
My faith in my abilities have been restored! This week, I did so much better than I did the previous one. Lately, I’ve been understanding the instructions a lot more clearly, and things have been just coming to me. I AM SO EXCITED! To my dismay, during the beginning of the course, I didn’t seem …