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    Easy Dessert Recipes & Baking Tutorials for Home Bakers

    👋🏻 Welcome! Here you’ll find my approachable dessert recipes and tutorials designed for home bakers—from cakes and no-bake sweets to cookies, frostings, and more. I use these techniques in my own kitchen and have shared them as a contestant on Hallmark Channel’s Baked with Love: Holiday.

    No matter your experience level, these recipes with step-by-step photos are written to be clear, reliable, and fun!

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    • Inside look at chocolate layer cake with strawberry filling.
      Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Filling
    • White mascarpone frosting on a lemon layer cake filled with blueberries. The cake is sitting on a glass cake stand, with lemons and berries scattered around it.
      Lemon Blueberry Mascarpone Cake
    • A small white cake filled and covered with rainbow sprinkles.
      4-Inch Mini Birthday Cake
    • Mango cupcake surrounded by mango chunks.
      Mango Buttercream for Cake and Cupcakes
    • vanilla cupcake in a white cupcake liner with green frosting swirled on top of it.
      Basil Buttercream
    • Inside cross section of an old fashioned carrot cake made with pineapple and nuts.
      Old Fashioned Carrot Cake with Pineapple (Moist, Classic Layer Cake)
    • 6-inch chocolate sprinkle cake with fudgy chocolate buttercream and rainbow sprinkles.
      Chocolate Sprinkle Cake
    • almond raspberry cupcake with a bite missing from it, sitting on stack of small white plates.
      Raspberry Almond Cupcakes with Filling
    • Up-close overhead image of black cookies, sitting on a sheet of white parchment paper and dusted with sanding sugar.
      Black Cocoa Cookies
    • Hero shot of baked big batch chocolate chip cookies, sitting on a cookie sheet.
      Big Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies with Brown Butter
    Overhead of pink and white bunny cookies decorated with buttercream, sitting on a pink background.

    Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies Decorated with Buttercream

    Easter is almost here, and these sugar cookies are a seasonal go-to & popular recipe on the blog! 🐰

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    📺 As Seen on the Hallmark Channel!

    My husband Saman and I were part of Hallmark Channel’s baking competition, Baked with Love: Holiday, which premiered October 27, 2025!

    We joined nine other pairs of home bakers for the adventure of a lifetime.

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    Thanks for visiting. I'm Susan!

    I'm a self-taught baker and love creating straightforward, easy-to-follow dessert recipes for the home baker.

    My favorite part about this site is sharing all these ideas with you, especially when it comes to fun and unique ways to decorate cakes, cupcakes, and cookies with buttercream!

    Image of Susan, holding a pink Barbie cake.
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    Blueberry cream cheese frosting piped on a chocolate cupcake.

    Frosting Recipes

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      Small Batch Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
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      Chai Buttercream Frosting with Cream Cheese
    • Vanilla cupcake topped with almond frosting.
      Almond Buttercream Frosting
    • Raspberry cream cheese frosting in between cookie sandwiches.
      Raspberry Cream Cheese Frosting
    • Blueberry cream cheese frosting piped on a chocolate cupcake.
      Blueberry Cream Cheese Frosting
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      Biscoff Buttercream
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    Cake Recipes

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      Buttercream Lemon Cake Tutorial: Step-by-Step Guide
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      Mini Strawberry Bundt Cakes with Strawberry Icing
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    • Pink and white marbled cake, topped with roasted strawberries.
      Vanilla Cake with Strawberry Filling
    • Chocolate Bundt cake, coated with a pink raspberry cream cheese glaze and fresh raspberries on top.
      Raspberry Chocolate Bundt Cake
    • Dirty chai cake sitting on a brown cake stand with marbled chai frosting wrapped around the cake.
      Dirty Chai Cake with Spiced Frosting
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    No-Bake Recipes

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      Strawberry Mascarpone Cheesecake
    • Chocolate mascarpone mousse in a small crystal glass, topped with whipped cream, chocolate shavings, and fresh berries.
      Mascarpone Chocolate Mousse
    • Three glasses of saffron phirni, with a rose petal and saffron thread on top of each one.
      Saffron Phirni – Persian Milk Custard
    • No-bake chocolate cream pie with an Oreo cookie crust.
      Easy No-Bake Chocolate Cream Pie with Simple Ingredients
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    Cupcake Recipes

    • Three strawberry filled cupcakes on a white cake stand, one with a bite missing so you see the inside of the cupcake.
      Strawberry Filled Vanilla Cupcakes
    • Overhead shot of nine hot air balloon cupcakes, with blue frosting as the background and pink and orange balloons.
      Hot Air Balloon Cupcakes Tutorial
    • Mango cupcake, missing a bite, and showing the filling inside.
      Mango Cupcakes with Filling and Buttercream
    • Small Batch Vanilla Cupcakes
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    Breakfast and Brunch Recipes

    • Mini carrot cake bites, sitting on a brown piece of parchment paper.
      Mini Carrot Cake Bites (Small Batch Recipe)
    • Mini lemon Bundt cakes glazed and garnished with lemon zest.
      Mini Lemon Bundt Cakes
    • Mini carrot Bundt cakes drizzled with cream cheese glaze and topped with nuts.
      Mini Carrot Bundt Cakes
    • Snowball cookies, dusted in powdered sugar, sitting in a muted green serving bowl, surrounded by bits of pecans.
      Snowball Cookies by Aunt Susie
    • Orange Cake by Sidi Joon
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      Birthday Cake Cookies
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      Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies

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