Anna Ray

About Anna Ray

Anna is a Dessert Recipes and Trends Contributor at Best Friends for Frosting. From her experience working at Crumbs Bake Shop and Voodoo Doughnut, Anna will be opening her own bakery next year.

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Ask BFFF: What Can I Substitute for Eggs in a Recipe?

I spent 6 months as an extremely strict Vegan, but I found after about month one (just kidding, about three days) that I just couldn’t survive without the cupcakes and cookies I craved. So, I found out many different ways to substitute eggs in my favorite recipes. Here’s a few of my favorites:   Bananas [...]

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Weekly Pinterest Crush: Megan Gilger

Megan Gilger‘s Pinterest is an absolute must-follow for any up-and-coming blogger. Megan is the lady behind Hitch Design Studio, Hitch Print Shop, and a blogger over at The Fresh Exchange. Her boards are as bright and vibrant as Megan herself, and they are so full of style and design inspiration . The boards dabble in [...]

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Pie Shops You Must Try

Everywhere you look, it seems a new hand pie shop is opening up in some nearby neighborhood, and I, for one, am thrilled. There’s just something so wonderful about hand pies. I could eat savory for breakfast, lunch, and dinner and sweets for dessert (and also breakfast, lunch, and dinner). Hand pie shops offer their [...]

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Ask BFFF: How to Store Cookies

When I was a little girl, my grandmother had a huge orange cookie jar in her kitchen that was to-the-brim full of her favorite chocolate chip cookies at all times. She had six grandchildren at that time and four (adult) kids too, so cookies were always being baked and replenished to feed all of our [...]

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Weekly Pinterest Crush: Elsie Larson

Elsie Larson is best known for her blog A Beautiful Mess, and her Pinterest boards certainly convey her own personal style as well as a ton of features from A Beautiful Mess. The boards center around similar things as the blog such as crafts, fashion, photography, and recipes. Her Pinterest boards are a perfect representation of [...]

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Weekly Pinterest Crush: Courtney Whitmore

Courtney Whitmore is the amazing author of the book, Push-Up Pops, and the editor behind the lovely Pizzazzerie. Courtney may be accomplished, but she doesn’t take herself too seriously. Her Pinterest boards are reflective of that and full of fun inspiration for so many types of parties. With pins covering everything from weddings to tailgating [...]

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Ask BFFF: How to Make Cake Pops

Cake pops are a cause for a lot of confusion amongst home bakers. They seem so incredibly complicated, and yet they are really, really simple to make. There are two effective ways I’ve found for making cake pops, but I will say that for first-timers, using a cake pop pan (like Homemaker Chic does) may [...]

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Weekly Pinterest Crush: Joy Cho

We love Joy Cho because she is a wealth of knowledge. She’s a blogger and designer who’s made it big with her blog Oh Joy!, her nationwide textiles, packing, and branding business, as well as her two well-received books Blog Inc. and Creative Inc. Joy, who has a sense of style that is simply unparalleled, [...]

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Ask BFFF: How to Decorate Cookies

With Thanksgiving, Christmas, and many other holidays coming up, I am always on the lookout for cute ways to decorate cookies. There are so many different ways to decorate cookies, especially when you’re talking about more than just sugar cookies. I’ve decided to break this up into three varieties of cookie, though there’s so many [...]

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