Hi, there! My name is Amy (from amyistheparty.com and indiesacramento.com) and I am honored to have the opportunity to guest blog on Best Friends for Frosting. If you know me, then you know that I love to bake, almost as much as I love to craft! Every Christmas, I bake 8-10 different types of cookies, which I [...]
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Eggnog Cheesecake Bar Recipe
Eggnog is a treat to look forward to each holiday season. It’s rich, creamy, sweetly spiced, and the flavor seems to translate well to just about everything. Cookies, cupcakes, lattes, you name it. I’d never seen Eggnog Cheesecake Bars, however, until I saw this post from The Galley Gourmet. With a mixture of mascarpone and [...]
How to Decorate an Ugly Sweater Christmas Cake
This Ugly Sweater Cake from Cake Central is perfect for a Christmas season birthday, or just for fun! Perhaps you could take it to that inevitable ugly sweater party and wear something a little less ugly. I love the detail on the example from Cake Central. There’s even a tag in the sweater and adorable [...]
Christmas Peppermint Sticks Recipe
What’s more festive at the holidays than candy cane stripes? Check out these Peppermint Sticks from iVillage. Pipe your own stripes into this beautiful treat. Just make sure to keep an eye on them as they bake so they don’t become too crisp to roll around your chopsticks. Spruce up some gifts or a [...]
Best Candy Bark Recipes
This year, why limit yourself to Peppermint Bark? Check out this great list of Bark from Martha Stewart’s Christmas Candy Assortment. She has nine great ideas! Everything from Cherry and Orange Peel Bark to S’mores Bark to Cookies and Cream. I suppose, if we put our minds to it, we could come up with all [...]
Valentines Red Velvet Cake Recipe
This “Heritage Red Velvet Cake” from Sprinkle Bakes looks so soft and sultry that I want to give it a big hug! A dense, yet plush and moist cake, finished with a crumb topping, is a perfect way to win anyone’s heart. With step by step instructions, and the revelation of her secret ingredient that [...]
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