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It's Threadcakes time again, peeps! This is the contest inviting you (yes, YOU) to make a cake of your favorite Threadless shirt design. There are fun prizes, and your cakes are judged by the likes of Mary Alice from Ace of Cakes, Bakerella, Bake and Destroy, and yes, even...

Helen Keller once said,"The best way out is always through."Which is fabulous advice pretty much any time you're not constructing a multi-tier wedding cake.Cake Construction: You're Doing it Wrong.Let's go in for a closer look, shall we? Wow. You know, no matter how contrite the...

If you're not one of the people complaining about the heat right now, then you're one of the people complaining about the people complaining about the heat.Either way, we all have the same problem:Bad bikini cakes.Yep, this record-breaking heat wave has clearly addled bakers' brains,...

Guys, I get a lot of wreck reactions via e-mail. I've seen multi-page rants IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS from bridezillas, blistering sarcasm from disappointed parents, and more "LOL"s than I can count. I've even known one or two brides who had to take their bakers to court to get a refund.However.I've...

Here's one way to tell if a cake order was made over the phone:Followed by a three hour tour?[For the record, that joke makes me feel reeeeally old.]John and I just sat here saying the words "our" and "are" ad nauseam. We sounded a lot like the seagulls in Finding Nemo: "Our? Are?...

"Good day, Madam! Please allow me to welcome you to the West Rutheford Winery, Gastropub and Patisserie. Might I offer you a moist towelette?""Um, no. I just need to order a cake for my son's birthday, please.""But of course! We have many, many cakes to choose from. If I may...

Though the movie premiered last weekend, Potter Mania is still going strong here at the Yates household. I finished up John's custom carved wand display a few days ago, and we've been having a blast searching and sorting through all the Sweets flooding our inbox.So, without further...