Adventures in Grace and Overanalyzing Everything

(::Inhale::...annnnnnd GO!  This post will possibly be in two parts or updated next week if I live.  It's very long and probably over-dramatic because I'm extremely anxious and overanalyzing everything and wondering why I make such stupid decisions and wondering why I can't just be normal and  why I have to be so neurotic and have …

Social Media and Doberge

Hi, I'm Aimee and I have been Facebook free for 17 days (at least at the time of typing this up). Current social media is like being in an over crowded room (CUE: THE FIRE MARSHALS ARE COMING!) where everyone is at arms length yelling at each other, but nothing productive is being done about any of the issues. …

Is that your Mom’s recipe?

I get asked that question a lot.  Every time someone (who is not my family) finds out I baked something their first question is "Is that your mom's recipe?".  It's naturally an automatic assumption to have recipes passed on from generation to generation.  It's nice to have memories to pass on to my children that they pass on …

Ugly Cakes

If I ever owned a bakery I'd call it Ugly Cakes with the tag line "It's what is on the inside that counts".  Cake decorating is a pain, you guys.  Making a cake nicely decorated is an even bigger pain. It's not until recently that I got into decorating cakes.  Not only decorating cakes, but …

Hershey Cake

Sometimes you just know you need something in your life and your whole life has been void and you didn't even know how or why until you saw "this". "This" was a cookies and cream cake.  My coworker showed me a picture someone posted on social media and it was immediately love at first sight.  I didn't …