Every year for his entire lifetime, I have made Bishop Danger Remis’ birthday cupcakes. Being Teno’s best friend, he has a free pass for the weirdest and wildest little kid birthday cakes until they are too old for birthday parties. Last year his theme was municipal vehicles, for which I made piles of candy garbage [...]

This Thursday, May 6th, I’m making my second appearance on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight along side Dana Joy Altman of Real Food Rehab and Angie Montroy of Angie’s Pantry. If you watched our last appearance you may remember the Great Macaron Misunderstanding. Well rest assured that we will be clearing up the difference between a French [...]

Thanks to everyone who played my Party Hard give away – and extra thanks to the folks at Seibei who made it all possible. Congrats to Sara and Misty on posting the (randomly) winning comments! By popular demand I’m posting the toppers I used to make my black and white cupcakes. Just download the DIY Andrew [...]

Mad love to everyone who came out to see Lisa and I at the WildClaw Dance of the Demented! Even though my voice was shot I had lots of fun gawking at mostly-naked ladies and watching Lisa get hit on all night. One of the highlights was catching (amazing) costume designer Thomas Spanos not-so-sneekily taking [...]

Whew, rough week. Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and Billy Mays. I can’t say I was all that shook up about the first two, they’re slightly ahead of my time, but Billy Mays is a major bummer. Tony and I loved watching him on Pitchmen. Well, In a fervor of updating my online portfolio and my [...]

For his birthday,my friend Greg had a very specific request: booze-soaked cupcakes with blood-red buttercream and John Waters-themed cupcake toppers. Given my affinity for drag queens and Mac cosmetics I have always been a fan of the gays, and given my stellar bone structure and sassy mouth, the gays have always loved me back. So [...]

I decided at about 7:30 am today to make red velvet cupcakes with Jason toppers for Friday the 13th. Of course, now that I think about it, smores cupcakes might have been more fitting. You know… camping. Well, whatever- I made you some free DIY cupcake toppers in honor of the best day on the [...]

As a Chicago girl, there have only been two Super Bowls in my life time that truly mattered- XX and XLI. That being said, I’m always down for a reason to eat spinach dip and watch football- so all hail Super Bowl Sunday! This year I’m following Obama’s lead and backing the Steelers. Sure, I [...]

Tony and I have been talking about the new season of LOST a lot lately, and the conversations are eerily similar to the late-night talks we’d have when I was several months pregnant and anxious about becoming a mother. “What do you think it’s going to be like?” “What if I don’t like it?” “I [...]

…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 [...]