The Real Hot Mess

11/01/2025

02/23/2025

Made homemade crumpets today. Sublime. The texture is amazing. I prefer them to any other breakfast bread.

12/08/2024

When my lifelong bestie girl got married, I made the cakes. She and her hubby met working at the Aquarium, and they're both involved in rescuing Kemps Ridley sea turtles. ...the groom wanted a Texas sheet cake, which I obliged, but I did still zhuzh it up...the gelatinous ocean is one big jello/vodka shot. The sand is pulverized pecan sandies

10/20/2024

Love is in the air!

Groom's cake, chocolate fudge with Bailey's chocolate filling and frosting. Dark chocolate bark, gumpaste flower and vines, and chocolate squirrels.

Bride's cake, honey almond cake with honey Swiss buttercream. Gumpaste flowers, honey hard candy honeycomb.

12/31/2023

Wedding cakes for a coastal wedding.... the bride's cake at traditional white chocolate almond cake with Italian meringue buttercream. And the groom's cake a Texas sheet cake and two layers with water made of coconut vodka jello shot and pecan Sandy sand

12/31/2023

Christmas with the family. German feast of brisket with red wine gravy, mustard Pretzel dumplings, German potato salad, bratwurst and fried onions, sweet and sour red cabbage, linzer cookies, black forest cake

03/06/2023

A baby shower cake with a dinosaurs and Dallas Cowboys theme....bottom is vanilla buttermilk, second tier is blue velvet, third is peanut butter pound cake..

08/24/2022

A Persian Love Cake.....a delicately flavored Pistachio, rosewater and cardamom cake, with rosewater Swiss Buttercream. Decorated with roses and pistachios.

05/18/2022

A birthday cake and matching smash cake for a one year old friend.

03/01/2022

A tall cake (4 layer, 6 inch round) and matching cuppies....This is my personal favorite flavor combination of all of my cakes. It is a bit labor intensive, but so worth it. Coconut cream cake ..key lime curd filling...mango Swiss Buttercream frosting...

02/26/2022

Fish themed fudge cake