Raspberry Ombre and Coffee Chocolate Overload Cake
In the last few weeks I had a few cake orders which are keeping me busy. The raspberry ombre cake was more for me than for anyone else. I wanted to try an ombre cake so badly. The opportunity presented itself and I took it! The cake was my basic white cake with a vanilla [...]
The Twin Cities Pie Experiment
Let me start this post by saying how sorry we are for how long it’s been since our last post. We have not been ignoring you guys! We have just been so-damn-BUSY. Between work, this event I am about to tell you all about, my bi-weekly D&D group, and the release of Borderlands 2 we [...]
Victorinox Fibrox 8-Inch Chef’s Knife Review and Giveaway!
If you are in the market for an affordable chef’s knife, you need the Victorinox 40520 Fibrox 8-Inch Chef’s Knife. For the first 7 or so years that Lia and I had been together, we had been using kitchen knives handed down to do me by my mother. Maternal love notwithstanding, these knives were anything [...]
Out with the old, in with the new!
My old blog started off simple enough. I love to bake and I wanted to share my recipes that I concocted/adapted/cried over with the greater world. I started off with just WordPress.com and my iPhone and the love and support of my husband’s stomach. Thus, The Catalyst: Cupcakes was born, because it all started with [...]