
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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- Chocolate Cake with Strawberry Filling
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- Old Fashioned Carrot Cake with Pineapple (Moist, Classic Layer Cake)
- Chocolate Sprinkle Cake
- Raspberry Almond Cupcakes with Filling
- Black Cocoa Cookies
- Big Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies with Brown Butter
📺 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!

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Frosting Recipes
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Cake Recipes
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