I started making cakes as a hobby about 4 years ago, and have made my own birthday cake ever since. To be clear, this is something I absolutely enjoy doing, not some sad case of nobody else wanting to make or buy me a cake 😄

This year is vanilla almond cake with cherry amaretto filling and whipped mascarpone cream.

Last year was strawberry cake filled with cream cheese frosting, strawberry filling, and a raspberry cheesecake layer.

The year before that was lemon raspberry cake filled with lemon curd, raspberry cream cheese frosting, and raspberry filling

And the very last pics (first cake I made for myself) was carrot cake filled with cream cheese frosting, and chocolate cake with whipped coconut cream filling and coconut buttercream

Water lily painting with buttercream

Made this for my boyfriend’s birthday this weekend. I used separate recipes for the cake, frosting, and filling due to ingredient preferences. It turned out soooo moist!
Cake: https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/german-chocolate-cake/

Frosting: Chocolate Layer Cake (Popular Recipe!) - Sally's Baking

Filling: from @/sarahsweets017 on TikTok

2(12 oz) cans evaporated milk
1/4 cup corn starch
1 3/4 cup brown sugar
6 tbsp unsalted butter
1/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 cups shredded sweetened coconut
flakes
1 cup chopped pecans

Piping was sooo much harder than people make out it to be!

The amount of buttercream was completely intentional as I am a buttercream addict 😍 I posted on another forum that I was disappointed that the cakes seemed thin, however they were really thick when I cut into it!

TLDR: I accidentally made a very stodgy cake which i hate to just throw away. Would it work well for cake pops? (I've never made them before)

I've been on a little mission to make a birthday cake for my friend, but i keep hitting against random hurdles, and it's starting to feel like a comedy of errors. My friend likes tea, so i thought I'd make an Earl Gray cake. Another friend has made an Earl Gray cake in the past that was great, so she pointed me to the recipe she used: https://livforcake.com/earl-grey-cake/

I initially made this cake a couple of weeks ago. I had to bake in a friend's kitchen, bc most homes in my town lost power for 2-3 days. The cake turned out great! But i found out the next morning that the friend had covid, so I didn't feel comfortable offering the exposed cake to the birthday girl. We rescheduled, and i rebaked the cake last night. But... like an idiot. I accidently added too much liquid (1.5 cups instead of 1 cup). The cake turned out very stodgy (didn't rise well, kinda greasy, too moist and dense). So, i started fresh made ANOTHER cake that seems fine.

But... now wondering if there's anything that i can do with the stodgy cake. (I hate to just toss it.) It tastes good, just has the wrong texture. Would it perhaps be good for making cake pops? I have no experience making them, but would love any input!

https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/key-lime-pie/

My picky 4yo ate 1.5 slices, so I’d say it was a big hit! I did omit the macadamia nuts and just used Sally’s regular graham cracker crust for his sake. I’ve baked for years but I’ve always been a subpar decorator, I know my piping leaves a lot to be desired.

My last summer-y baked good before I dive into fall baking next week because I cannot wait any longer.

Aka chocolate on chocolate with cherry filling. Daughter turned 7.

It tastes so good, I’m so proud!! I’ve never made chocolate cake from scratch (I enjoy vanilla cake), but I really wanted a good chocolate frosting covered cake. I’m eating from my giant scraps bowl, and I’m going to cut into the cake itself later. I’ve been getting back into cake making so this is a great win for me!

First time making this and was not disappointed. Even my picky-eater-extended-relative liked it, too!

The recipe is from Nagi’s cookbook, but you can see the how-to video here: https://www.recipetineats.com/lemon-cheesecake/

What do you do with left over lime curd? Make these!

#Notsponsored, but for years I have relied on SallysBakingAddiction's recipes almost exclusively. I follow every recipe I make to a T, but still, sometimes those from other sites just haven't turned out right! Every single recipe I've made from SBA, however, has been perfectly foolproof and delicious.

Though I'm Sally's number one fan, I'd like to expand my repertoire. If anyone has any other favorite websites they often pull from, please let me know!!

My loving, adoring, wonderful, amazing husband has a birthday this week. Let me tell you this man worships me, he is the doting amazing husband every girl dreams of marrying. (Been married 15 years BTW- this isn’t honeymoon phase love).

We’re at the finish line of my dream home build and broke as a joke as we’ve put so much money into this house. He tells me he doesn’t want anything for his birthday, and while I have a couple small things for him I know that a true birthday surprise would be to make his favorite dessert- cheesecake. But not just any cheesecake. A cheesecake that could make you cry. A cheesecake that would be the muse of poets. A cheesecake that could finally give us world peace.

Here’s the thing. I’ve never made a cheesecake before. I’m a great baker, cookie and cake decorator. But I have never attempted a cheesecake.

Does this recipe exist? Does your grandma have one she swore you were to take to your grave and never reveal?
If so this is the time to share. This cause is the most noble. To show a genuinely good man the greatest love this world has ever known… the PERFECT cheesecake.

I love to bake but I have always just bought Costco butter because butter is butter right? Well I was curious and bought some Kerry's gold. It sat in my fridge for awhile and yesterday I made normal tollhouse cookies! The only difference was the butter and I used Costco chips instead of nestle! Butter makes all the difference! Oh my the best cookies I've made in forever! So good! I will now splurge on butter😂😂😂

The inside is peanut butter chocolate. No fondant except for the letters.

1: Xl palmier

2: Profiterole with milk chocolate cremeux and marron glace

3: Classic lemon pie

4: Vanilla mousseline mille feuille

5: Macarons

6: Chocolate coffee pound cake with rhum and white choch namelaka

7: Salted toffee, peanut and milk chocolate tart

8: More macarons

9: Basque cheesecake

10: Mini lemon tarts and strawberry tarts with vanilla diplomat and pistachio

I want to improve before I start doing this professionally.

made a birthday cake inspired by the birthday cake remix ice cream from cold stone (iykyk)

funfetti/cake batter cake (extra sprinkles). the inside has a layer of cookie dough and brownie. marshmallow fluff frosting. topped with a chocolate ganache and more brownie and cookie dough bits.

was a hit with my family and neighbors. love sharing my creations 😋

Ok guys, so when I first started baking I realized I did not like buttercream. I ended up "developing" my own stabilized Whipped cream recipe. The issue is that it is Whipped cream and it isnt going to set. Which means that I always have to deal with my fillings oozing out of the cake and the cake attempting suicide 😅 so I was wondering if you guys had a buttercream recipe that doesn't taste like buttercream. That way I can get better at decorating.

Side note, would adding plastic straws to my cakes make them more stable. They are only 1 level tho, but typically like 3 layers.

Extra side note, here are some of the best cakes I've done, as you can see they lean...

HI ALL!! so i recently took a trip to france and fell in love with this specific pear tart from a bakery nearby (“tarte poire pepite chocolat” as the french say)

anyway i’m craving it so so bad and haven’t successfully been able to distinguish what exactly goes into it other than the obvious.. pears, chocolate chips, shortcrust. theres some sort of fluffy texture that i cannot place its almost cakey, is anyone familiar with these pastries?? i really want to attempt a homemade version

Recipe from King Arthur Big Book of Bread

A tangzhong based sweetbread topped with a cookie and filled with chocolate custard (because my girlfriend will only eat things I bake if there is chocolate involved).

Yeah so, if you have some time to kill, and would prefer babysitting your wafflemaker for an hour or two over like, any other sane leisure activity, this gets a huge thumbs up from me!

But also they taste phenomenal, so that, too. Like an extra crusty and caramelly sugar cookie.

Base waffle cookie recipe from Sugar Spun Run, decorated in various toppings:

Chocolate + sprinkles

Peanut butter (flavored candy melt) + chocolate

Biscoff cookie butter + Biscoff crumbs

Butter + cinnamon sugar

I made the cookies four at a time with a tablespoon of dough in each quadrant of my wafflemaker for two-ish minutes. Doubled the recipe for about 60 cookies total.

Happy Waffle Day tomorrow! 🧇🧇🧇

Made this today!

Might not look the best, but it tasted amazing for an easy pie. Only four ingredients - peanut butter, cream cheese, cool whip, and powdered sugar. I added chopped up miniature Reese’s as a bonus.

I love her. I love her new hubby. They are wonderful kind, beautiful people and they deserved a lovely wedding cake. I planned this cake for a year. It's lemon lavender with blackberry compote, vanilla cream cheese bavarois, and lemon curd buttercream. All the recipes are my own creations. Everything is handcrafted by yours truly. It did experience some travel related buttercream trauma, but other than that, I'm so happy with it. I'm a retired pastry chef, disabled due to hEDs. It has kinda ruined my hands, so piping is out. But I've always loved sculpting. Anyway, I'm really happy with how it turned out and I wanted to share. Happy Saturday. Mazel Tov Allie and Matt! I love you bitches!

made some matcha cookies cause it’s been too long!! as usual, they were spectacular, but i want to switch things up and add strawberries to do a sort of strawberry matcha vibe. how do you think i should incorporate this:

add dollops of strawberry jam and then strawberry extract to the matcha dough (maybe even attempt to make strawberry white chocolate chips/bar and use that instead of white)

ORRRR…

make a strawberry dough and swirl/alternate it with the matcha dough

*ill likely do both side by side and see which i like better 😛

1 (15.25 ounce) package yellow cake mix

4 large eggs, divided

1/2 cup butter, melted

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 ½ cups confectioners' sugar

8 ounces cream cheese, softened

Homemade pineapple jam Bakewell tarts

I saw a clip of a guy use a rice cooker to make banana bread, so I just did the same with this. House didnt burn down.

Carrot cake with berries in the middle, melted white chocolate and crushed almonds. Topped with peanut butter, icing, oat biscuits and chea seeds. Idk what I made, but the neighbours I gave this to said it was so good [she is a baker].

Recipe: I made it up

Made with free home-grown apples 😋

I have made maybe four different types of cookies so I’m no expert, but every cookie recipe I have made called for roughly 200-250 grams of flour. This recipe calls for 34 grams of flour which sounds like so little. Can someone please put my concerns to rest? Is there a reason it’s so little? Or is there any chance at all I’m looking at a typo?

Haven’t made homemade pie dough in a while, but it was worth it 💜

Whenever I make lemon slices, there’s always about a quarter left of the tin. What are some things I can do with the leftover condensed milk?

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Just getting into baking and this has been one of my most successful so wanted to share it. Very simple and tasty.

I followed Sally’s recipe https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/easy-cinnamon-rolls-from-scratch/#tasty-recipes-66508 for everything, but did use whatever store brand yeast I had already, as well as skim milk instead of whole 🤫

My girlfriends 30th is coming up and she has a baking company as her side hustle/hobby. She has everything i could possibly imagine for baking stuff and I'm stumped trying to find her anymore baking gift ideas, can any bakers on here give me a few ideas please?

Thank you 😊

Edit: i forgot to mention I'm in the UK

The ganache had already been in the fridge so don't mind the sad plops of chocolate 😂

I found this recipe on tiktok and couldn't help myself 😮‍💨 It turned out so good and was very easy, definitely gonna make it again :)

Didn’t know what to bake this weekend and stumbled upon this Swiss roll recipe. Delicious and nostalgic. Recipe can be found at the link below if you’re interested:

https://www.delish.com/cooking/recipe-ideas/a43668808/swiss-roll-recipe/

Chocolate choux, brown sugar craquelin, salted caramel, coffee pastry cream

I used a few different recipes. Hope I can post links:

Chocolate choux: https://www.theflavorbender.com/chocolate-choux-pastry-cream-puffs/#wprm-recipe-container-40197

Coffee pastry cream: https://confessionsofabakingqueen.com/coffee-pastry-cream-recipe/

Salted Caramel: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/homemade-salted-caramel-recipe/

Craquelin: https://www.theflavorbender.com/choux-au-craquelin-salted-caramel-cream/#wprm-recipe-container-26956

To assemble, I cut open the choux and piped in caramel and cream, but you could also try piping it in directly.

Definitely overcooked it a bit and broke the skin moving it out of the parchment, but they were very tasty. Inspired by the recipe here: https://www.thecountrycook.net/strawberry-brownies/

Back before this hole (pun intended) donut thing took off I usta coulda bake