Little Bit of Sweetness

A little food blog/journal of all my favorite baking!

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4th of July Trifle and Buttermilk Pie

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Stardew Valley Pink Cake

I had extra watermelon so I decided to make the Pink Cake from my Stardew Valley Cookbook! Anyone who plays Stardew Valley will recognize this cake as one of Haley’s “lover” items! And it is honestly so delicious! It’s the 7th cake I’ve baked this year and my friends were ranking it as their favorite!

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Chocolate Cheesecake and Blackberry Lavender Cake + Caramel Apples

It’s been a cakey month! I made Blackberry Lavender cake for my own 27th birthday at the start of June and then last week I made Chocolate cheesecake for my friend’s birthday. We combined his birthday with our Summerween party so I also made some caramel apples as a bonus dessert!

Blackberry Lavender Cake Recipe

Chocolate Cheesecake Recipe

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Raspberry Ice Cream Cake

I made this for my friends birthday! Cake and ice cream were made from scratch! And I hand shaved the chocolate for garnish. I had a vision and I had to make it happen!

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Lil bit late with this post, but happy Pi day y’all!!!

Pumpkin pie is my grandma’s recipe (the crust edges got a little over cooked unfortunately but the inside was still good!

And the other two pies (coconut cream and chicken pot pie) were from the website Sally’s Baking Addiction)

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Cinnamon Rolls!

So I haven’t posted in a while but I have been baking things, I just keep forgetting to take pictures of them. But today I remembered!

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Pumpkin spice donuts with pumpkin spice custard filling I made for a Halloween party!

I used the recipe from Two Plaid Aprons but I used a different filling than suggested in the recipe because I wanted a custard instead of a cream cheese filling

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Apple Pies and Pumpkin Bundt Cakes

Happy Fall Y’all!

Both recipes were from the website, Sally’s Baking Addiction

Apple Hand Pies

Pumpkin Bundt Cake

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Cakes

Just a few seasonal cakes from December onward :)

Easter Bundt Cake

Pomegranate Cheesecake

I bought myself a springform pan specifically to make this cheesecake. My extended family told me it was better than Cheesecake Factory when they ate it. I don’t know if that’s actually true, but I was very flattered.

My Dog’s Birthday Cake

It was basically just peanut butter, bananas, flour, baking powder for rising, and unsweetened whipped cream. She looooved it. I tried some too and it basically tasted like bland banana bread, but not bad haha

Yule Log Christmas Cake

My pride and joy. It took so long to make not only the cake but all the decorative bits. The mushrooms are made from merengue :) imma make another this Christmas!

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Burger Cake!

Happy 4th of July, y’all! I’m celebrating by going to a barbecue and bringing this burger cake!

I saw one at the store the other day and I told my sister, “My toxic trait is thinking I could make that.”

Later in the week my mom said we were asked to bring dessert to the family bbq and asked if there was anything I had in mind. So I decided screw it, let’s try this thing.

I didn’t feel like making anything from scratch so all I did was make two box cake mixes (one yellow cake mix and one chocolate cake mix) and two cream cheese frosting. Then I used food coloring (there was a lot of experimenting to get that tan color) to make the cream cheese frosting different colors then used a piping bag to put it all together! Oh and white sprinkles to look like sesame seeds. I think it turned out pretty dang well.

(Some of the yellow frosting got on my hand and it was really messing with my brain when I licked it and it wasn’t mustard.)

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Lavender Lemon Bars

So I actually made these on Monday but I didn’t post because they weren’t super aesthetically pleasing, but I have since decided a baked good is a baked good so here they are!

I got the recipe from Sugar Hero and just used lavender out of my garden to put into the crust and filling. They’re turned out yummy they’re just VERY sweet! But yet at the same time tart haha. All in all they were good but I couldn’t taste the lavender much but that may be my fault for not putting the lavender in the food processor before I mixed it into the sugar.

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Strawberry Crisp!

I’ve still got lots of strawberries so today I made a strawberry crisp! It’s feels very summery and is super yummy with ice cream on top!

The recipe I used was from Belle of the Kitchen