I was recently asked how to make Ollie the Octopus. Actually, it wasn’t that recently, I just fell off the face of the earth for a little while. I hope it’s not too late! Ollie actually isn’t too hard to make. The secret is having the right pan. I rarely use shaped pans, but my [...]
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Meet Oliver. You can call him Ollie for short. Ollie is a Christmas octopus. Oh, haven’t heard of those before? I mean, he’s all dressed up and ready to go. He’s got his Santa hat and he’s even snazzed it up a bit with the bow tie. If Ollie had had more time to get [...]
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Sushi cake. Makes you think of Christmas, right? Ok…there’s an explanation. Remember the Medoways? The Medoways of basketball and television cakes? For the past few years I’ve been going to Medoways for some Christmas celebration. The Medoways are one of those great Italian families. Great, like big family, lots of food, lots of fun. Being [...]
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Ok, I must admit when I first got asked to make a manger cake, I didn’t know what a manger was. In case you hadn’t figured out from all the Hanukkah posts…I’m Jewish. So, this is what I thought a manger was: Turns out that’s a manger scene. I was all set to make the [...]
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There’s been a frenzy of baking in the land of Simmiecakes. You know, some traditional Christmas baked goods. Except not really.
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