As you may or may not know, I am psyched to be on the judging panel for this year’s Threadcakes competition! If you’ve been eating fondand under a rock somewhere I’ll fill you in – it’s a cake decorating contest that melds the creative, crowd-sourced designs of Threadless t-shirts with the uber popular art of [...]

“If you fancy yourself a baker,” teases the blog post over at Blue Sky Inn, daring you to enter their fundraiser/pie contest. The closest I ever came to making a pie was the 30 bazillion crostata I used to blast out like some kind of crostata-making machine at Letizia’s Natural Bakery. But the truth is, [...]

Well, well, well- who loves aprons? You guys do! Had I known what an amazing response I was going to get from apron blogging I would have skipped the baking and gone straight for the accessories all along! Special thanks to the official Deathmatch sponsor Cupcake Provocateur, who not only created the Argyle Effect apron [...]

I wish I would have been smart enough to do a screen grab of the numbers that popped up on Randomizer.org when I choose the TWO winners for my pastry bag giveaway- seriously, I know you guys aren’t going to believe me, but Lyns from Sweet Cuppin Cakes Bakery and Cupcakery Supplies and City the [...]

…is Dr. Jennifer Kovach with her Vanilla Pepsi Punkcakes! Congratulations to you, Jenn! You’ve won, as promised, the one-of-a-kind autographed Bake and Destroy photo book, a set of classic wrestling-themed cupcake toppers and whatever other fun things I decide to mail you! Now, before you all start booing and throwing your popcorn at me, I [...]

the tattooed lady’s famous… Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy! I’m glad I never set a deadline for when CM Punk would choose a favorite wrestling-themed baked item to crown Sugar Slam Champion because um… it’s taking a while. Believe it or not, he has other stuff going on in his life besides judging Internet [...]

There are probably a lot of people who wish they were CM Punk, but tonight I am not one of them. Not only because I don’t think I could stand to shave my legs nearly as often as he has to, but because I would not want to have to choose a favorite out of [...]

One of my fondest childhood memories is of my cousin Mikey putting his younger brother Josh in a Boston Crab. As Josh screamed and pounded on the carpeted floor Mikey calmly explained the importance of foot position to all of his wide-eyed little cousins. One by one we would slide off the couch and submit [...]

Mac & Cheese Cupcake Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy! Oh no I didn’t. I did, dude. I made a macaroni and cheese cupcake and I don’t care what you think about that. Echo Magazine is having a staff mac & cheese cook off. The winning recipes will appear in our June issue; categories include [...]

Are you the next Cupcake Hero? Originally uploaded by Bake & Destroy! My ginger apple cupcakes with orange clove buttercream might not have been enough to sweep October’s Cupcake Hero contest, but they apparently were enough to warrant my co-hosting of this month’s competition. When you’ve been a loser for as many years as I [...]