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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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    ⭐️ Popular Seasonal Recipes

    • 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
    • vanilla cupcake in a white cupcake liner with green frosting swirled on top of it.
      Basil Buttercream
    • almond raspberry cupcake with a bite missing from it, sitting on stack of small white plates.
      Raspberry Almond Cupcakes with Filling

    White Chocolate and Strawberry Muffins

    Besides their incredible flavor, these muffins are easy! The batter comes together with a few bowls (no mixer required!). This recipe works for any and all skill levels.

    Make a Batch

    🌈 Sprinkle-Filled Treats

    • A small white cake filled and covered with rainbow sprinkles.
      4-Inch Mini Birthday Cake
    • Cookies with rainbow sprinkles and Oreo pieces, sitting on a white piece of parchment.
      Funfetti Oreo Cookies
    • 6-inch chocolate sprinkle cake with fudgy chocolate buttercream and rainbow sprinkles.
      Chocolate Sprinkle Cake
    • Overhead shot of a birthday cake cookie, with a pale golden color and full of rainbow sprinkles.
      Birthday Cake Cookies
    • birthday cake muffins sitting on light pink plates, surrounded by colorful sprinkles
      Funfetti Muffins
    • Overhead image of chocolate sprinkle cookies sitting against a background of rainbow sprinkles.
      Chocolate Sprinkle Cookies

    📺 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.

    More about Baked with Love: Holiday

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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

    • Mixing bowl full of small batch chocolate buttercream frosting.
      Small Batch Chocolate Buttercream Frosting
    • Overhead shot of a dirty chai cake, decorated with chai spice buttercream and cinnamon sticks.
      Chai Buttercream Frosting with Cream Cheese
    • Vanilla cupcake topped with almond frosting.
      Almond Buttercream Frosting
    • Mango cupcake surrounded by mango chunks.
      Mango Buttercream for Cake and Cupcakes
    • 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
    See more Frosting Recipes →

    Cake Recipes

    • Vibrant orange layered cake decorated with colorful leaves for this buttercream lemon cake tutorial.
      Buttercream Lemon Cake Tutorial: Step-by-Step Guide
    • Small strawberry Bundt cake sitting on a little pink plate, surrounded by strawberries and coated with strawberry cream. cheese icing.
      Mini Strawberry Bundt Cakes with Strawberry Icing
    • Mango Coconut Cake
    • 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
    See more Cake Recipes →

    No-Bake Recipes

    • No-bake lemon mascarpone cheesecake topped with whipped white chocolate ganache, sitting on a marbled white and gray countertop.
      No-Bake Lemon Mascarpone Cheesecake with Whipped White Chocolate Ganache
    • Overhead image of no bake mascarpone cheesecake with berries on top.
      No Bake Mascarpone Cheesecake with a Biscoff Cookie Crust
    • Strawberry mascarpone cheesecake sitting on the base of a springform pan on a cake stand, surrounded by strawberries.
      No-Bake Strawberry Mascarpone Cheesecake with Pretzel Crust
    • Chocolate mascarpone mousse in a small crystal glass, topped with whipped cream, chocolate shavings, and fresh berries.
      Mascarpone Chocolate Mousse
    See more No-Bake Recipes →

    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
    See more Cupcake Recipes →

    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
    • Three glasses of saffron phirni, with a rose petal and saffron thread on top of each one.
      Saffron Phirni – Persian Milk Custard
    See more Breakfast and Brunch Recipes →

    More Recipes

    • Brown butter pistachio dark chocolate chunk cookies on a white piece of parchment paper, surrounded by chopped pistachios and chocolate chunks.
      Brown Butter Pistachio Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies
    • Saffron Orange Trifle with Cardamom
    • Pink 3D Christmas Tree Cake
    • White Chocolate and Strawberry Muffins

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