I dunno about you, but whenever I bake something I have this same order I do things. First, get out all the ingredients. Second, read the directions, and get all the ingredients I forgot in previous step, & prepare the recipe. Then, while the recipe is chilling or baking I always go and write my blog post. I find this is the best time to do it, while you can smell the delicious thing you are baking in the oven! And when they take up to 30 or 40 minutes to bake you have some time on your hands. Today I had a long time between prep and chilling and baking time to write this post.

I had been craving a Lemon tart for some reason, and It’s probably because we’re in the middle of summer and a lemon tart just seems so refreshing and summery to me! I remember when my mom and I would go visit my grandma we would always take her out to lunch, usually chinese food, and afterwards we would get something sweet for dessert. Now my grandma was a diabetic so she really couldn’t, or shouldn’t, have been eating too many sweets. But whenever my mom (her favorite of 6 children as my mom always joked) visited her, she would spoil her and get her a little lemon tart from the IGA (grocery store.) She loved lemon tarts! When she was younger my grandma always made preserves and always canned things. She made the best canned fruits and my mom said she loved her bread pudding (something on my list of To-Do’s!) So in memory of my Grandma today I baked a Lemon tart. I’m sure she would have loved a slice! (more…)

For Good Friday I made another lemon cake. This time it had a surprise! A Lemon Jell-O tunnel in the cake! I also tried my first ever basket weave! It was a little harder with whipped cream instead of frosting, but I think it turned out alright for my first time!

I got the inspiration from Kraft and the recipe for Hidden Treasure Cake, but instead of an angel food cake, I made a lemon cake to go with the lemon Jell-o filling, and whipped cream frosting.

After Baking the two cake rounds, cut and dig out a tunnel on the bottom layer of the cake. Fill the middle with the lemon Jell-O

I topped it with a little sugar nest! and Mini Eggies

A birds eye view!