Wow, one year…one whole year I have been writing this blog! As I sit here typing I am swaying in my chair and singing the lyrics to the 1990′s jam It’s Our Anniversary by Tony! Toni! Toné! However, I am replacing the word anniversary with blogoversary, because I am cool like that…it’s a damn good thing no one can see or hear me because I way waaay off key and the song in this context makes absolutely no sense!
For my blogoversary, I made The Pioneer Woman’s Italian Cream Cake and let me tell this cake is fabulous! If you follow me on twitter, you may remember my tweet about having a spoonful of this frosting for breakfast yesterday morning. I did omit the walnuts instead topping the cake with toasted coconut! Click here for the recipe & go make it because its fab!
For my blogoversary I wanted to put together a giveaway that would be comprised of some of my favorite things…
Here are a few of them…
Pictured: Pinch bowls & Ice Cream Cone/Snow Cone Holders from Target
Pictured: Mini Bundt Pans and Brownie Bite Pan by Wilton and purchased at Michael’s.
Not pictured a an OXO Cherry Pitter from BB&B and a couple of small additions such as sprinkles and spoons…
How do you win? Leave a comment on this post telling me your goals for the next year…it can be something simple like…perfecting a chocolate chip cookie or something much more deep!
Thanks for stopping by and good luck!
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Mmmmm that cake looks decadent. My goal for the next year is to learn how to make bread. It is something that has always intimidated me.
So delicious! My goals for next year are two many to list but some of them include bringing a lot more organic food into my diet, using more sustainable materials like bamboo in the home, and to expand my garden so that I can produce a lot more veggies!
Congrats! I truly enjoy your blog. Keep the posts coming! I need to learn how to use my camera and take better photos! Great giveaway. Thanks!!
My goal for the next year is to work more towards opening my own bakery.
Happy blogoversary!!
my goal is to get better at food photography too. i already have all the equipment i need, i just need to drag it out and perfect the skill
wow that cake looks FAB-u-LOUS!
I really want to get back into training mode and run a couple of 5 K's next year… who knows maybe a marathon in the next couple of years!
My goal for the next year is pretty simple, spend more time in the kitchen… and keeping it a little cleaner!
Elli
rose_herb09@hotmail.com
Ohhhh fun fun fun! Happy ONE YEAR!!
My goal this year,make some money doing what I love..cooking!
Wow, I would LOVE to win this. My goal for the next year is to get on the Cybils book award committee.
Yumm!Everything on here looks so tasty! My goal is to have enough hair to donate at the Breast Cancer walk again. I'm able to donate 8+ inches about every two years!
Thanks for doing this! My goal for the next year is to get out of debt and save money!
That looks wonderful! happy blogoversary!!
My goal for next year is to get pregnant!
funny, I know, but I'm totally serious, my girl needs a sibling
Happy Blogoversary! My goal is to try and actually "make" dinner 5 nights a week. I have no problem with the dessert part lol I love sweets!
My goals for the next year are to continue to "green" my family and home, to volunteer more, and to try to get a new camera and continue working on my newbie photography skills.
Wow ~ your giveaway is amazing. So much of my wish list all sitting there so prettily. : ) Thanks for the chance to win!
Happy Blogoversary! My goal for next year is to get my own baking blog up and running (I've been a little lazy about getting recipes up). Also I'd love to learn a thing or two about food photography.
My goal for the next year is to graduate college and make an awesome grad cake.
Apparently I have to make and eat an Italian cream cake…my sister and I were just talking about it this morning and now you have posted about it. It must be a sign!
My goal for this year is to use the fabric that I already have and not add any more (than I have to) to my collection!
Happy blogoversary!
I want to make my own pie crust instead of being lazy and using a store bought one.
My goal is to not over schedule myself so much. I have a hard time saying no.
Happy Blogoversary!!!
My goals for the next year are finally graduate college and find more time to spend in the kitchen whipping up some of the amazing recipes you post.
Happy blogoversary!
My goal for next year is to take more pictures. I don't have the greatest camera, but I think it's still good to get more uses out of it.
that cake looks delicious! my goal next year is to graduate college and save up for a kitchen aid mixer (a very unfortunate missing piece to my baking puzzle).
I've been drooling over this cake since PW made it, and I think i might have to make it myself now. My goal for the next year is to make a pizza entirely from scratch: dough, sauce and cheese, to learn a bit about cheesemaking in general, and to learn how to shop and eat more sustainably in new england.
My goal for the next year is to settle down with the love of my life. I've yet to meet the right one.
Thanks for the giveaway, and Happy Blogoversary!!
Happy Blogoversary!
My goal is to lose 10 pounds. After I make that cake, of course.
Happy Blogoversary! I have a few goals. One is to post more consistently. The other is to make more family recipes. I inherited my grandmother's recipe box so I want to make some dishes from that. My mom also sent me my other grandmother's pound cake and Italian cream cake recipes. So I want to try those too.
Happy blogiversary, and that cake looks beautiful!
My goal for the next year is to rummage through my mother's vintage cookbook collection and try out a few of the recipes (old classics never die)!
I'm not sure if the link to my blog works, so here's my link: http://www.thought4food.us/.
That cake looks so yummy!
My goal is to learn how to use fondant and make cupcakes and cakes that have it on them! I love baking and photography so I also want to get better at both of them. Thanks for the awesome giveaway. I hope I win!
Just came across your blog. Great designs! Love this cake, too.
Yummy looking cake! My goal for the next year is to bake more to share at work. I used to share often, but have gotten out of the habit. I need to earn my reputation back as a baker!
My goal is to find joy in everything I do.
Great giveaway!! My goal is to try and bake something new every other time I bake! I just tried making watermelon cupcakes, and not to long ago I tried a root beer cake with root beer frosting. That one was disappointing because you didn't taste the root beer.
I'm gonna add you on twitter now, and tweet your giveaway.
-Mommyelephant
Wow…Happy Blogoversary! You have a wonderful blog and I enjoy coming and seeing what you have to share! Thanks for all you share and thanks for the chance to win such neat goodies!
My goal this year is to create more cards (at least 20 per month)for our deployed military men and women.
Happy Blogoversary! My goal is two fold … to spend more time painting with my watercolors & to cook more/buy takeout less (because I am a pretty decent cook but have lapsed into laziness).
Today my goal is to sew every day. But tomorrow it might change, you never know
I want to learn to make fantastic pasta – so far I haven't made any, so I'm not getting very far.
Love the Italian Cream Cake. I haven't made on in ages, so it's due! My goal for the next year is to become a pro at making pie dough. First, I have lose my fear of it!
My goal is to bake all the recipies in Martha Stewart's new Cupcake book. I love that book!
My goal is to bake, and bake often. Life gets so busy, and the oven is my personal stress reliever. Specifically, I want to bake my way through all the family recipes & share my great-grandma's treats with everyone around me.
Awesome giveaway! My goal for the next year is to cook more with fresh fruits and veggies.
Wahoo, giveaways are the best. My goal is to learn how to make the perfect lasagna. Who doesn't like a hearty lasagna-if it tastes right, I am working on that part. Reaganjenny@gmail.com
My goals are to become an expert at Photoshop and . . . well that will probably take me the rest of the year so I better stop there.
My goal this year is to learn how to relax. To find something about each day that was amazing. Well not necessarily amazing but happy. I also want to learn how to knit a sweater. lol Sounds silly but hey it's a goal
I want to be able to make a really good authentic tiramisu! I've tried a dozen different recipes and none are as good as a local Italian restaurant. I asked him for the recipe and would you believe he orders it from New York???
Congratulations! My goal is to make some starter for sour dough bread. britzclan@sbeo.net
Congrats on one year!! My goal for the next year, is to have a garden for the first time ever (next season), and learn how to care for it, when to harvest things, how to can them, etc. Homegrown things are always so good!
I just had a baby, so my goal is to get normal life back together while taking good care of my kids!
Oh what a yummy giveaway!
One of my many goals this year, is to make bread more regularly. I used to do really good, lately I have just been too lazy!
My baking goal is to find a brownie recipe that my husband likes better than Ghirardelli's Double Chocolate mix.
Wonderful giveaway – thanks for your generosity. A goal I have is to learn how to hang/cut crown molding and do my living room. LindaSonia
Oh my gosh that looks yummy!
My goal for the upcoming year is to have my photography business up and running. Meaning, an income and referrals!!!!!
What a great giveaway, I hope I win it! That would be just in time for me to get into my fall and winter baking mood!
I would love to win this fun prize! One of my goals is to learn how to make a killer yellow cake from scratch.
my goal for the next year is to make it through nursing school!
I love your cake its look so good. and your blog.
My Goals for next year is to try to work with fondant, to create fondant cakes.
My goal for this year is to learn more about improvising and adapting recipes. Thanks for the giveaway – Bake It Pretty is one of my favorite stores too!
What a great giveaway, happy blogiversary! My goal is to make pie crust and have it actually be edible. Good luck with your photography!!
that cake looks soooo yummy!
my goal is to make good choices- something that has been hit or miss with me. Many thanks! and best of luck.
My goal is to find the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe!
My goal for the next year is to cook fresh, healthy meals at home as often as possible. My husband and I are trying to save money and improve our health by eating at home and taking our (healtheir) meals to work.
vicanddi@yahoo.com
Happy anniversary! My goal is to cook with some new foods – first up – lamb.
Thank you for the giveaway!
My goal for next year is to bring my company mainstream-I want Milk and Cookeez to have a name of it's own.
My goal for this next year is to try my best to bake from scratch!
When I do this, whatever I'm baking always tastes so much better. But, I succumb to the temptation to do things the quick way.
I also have a blog anniversary coming up next week! Making a cake sounds like a great idea!!!
YUM!!! Thanks for the givaway! That stuff looks like so much fun.
My goal is to learn and practice better photography for my blog.
My goal is to make more yeasted breads!
Wow, what great looking cake! Thanks so much for the generous giveaway!
My goal? Have my freezer stocked when the baby comes so that we can eat cheaply and healthily without resorting to takeout too often.
Neat blog! Happy blogoversary!
My goal is to make and put into action a plan for culinary school, for pastry arts. Now is as good a time as any!
Katyirwin2@gmail.com
My mom used to always make Italian Cream Cake.
My goal…be more "present" with my family. And, eat more cookies!
My goal: save up enough fir a highend blender so that I can make yummy frozen drinks!
What an exciting give away!
My goal this year is to be the best wife and mom that I can be. I know it's not original, but that's the desire of my heart.
My goal this year is to have more fun with my little darlings. Getting too caught up with things I don't really have to do burdens my family and doesn't allow me to be silly with the kids. Congrats to you!
Fun stuff! My goal this year is to get off unemployment, and hopefully find a job I love in the process.
This is a wonderful time for me to set new goals for the upcoming year. July 24th will begin my 50th year. I'm on the cusp of 49 and my youngest will be leaving home for college in August. My goal for the upcoming goal is to write a novel that has been brewing in my brain and soul for about 5 years. It seems like a good way to celebrate the beginning of the second half of my life.
Happy Blogoversary!
My goal for this year is to master covering cakes with fondant. Oh! And making perfect fondant bows. =)
Your style of cooking is quite a bit like mine; I enjoy your recipes. Congrats on your blog!
Yum! My goal this year is to finally master baking bread. My loaves always seem to turn out more like pancakes!
So many…grown my business, start a few new business ventures. Most importantly, spend more time with my son!!
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my goals are always changing. right now I am trying to exercise regularly in the mornings so my dessert habit can continue!
cheers!
carriechilton@gmail.com
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Happy blogoversary Jamie…your beautiful blog grows prettier by the day! My goals for next year are to better my photography & make macarons.That cake looks jaw dropping good. (I have a US address. Do I qualify?) I ♥ your se;ection of favourite things. BEAUTIFUL!!
Congrats on your Blogaversary!!
My goal this year is to bake more Gluten Free foods!!
Beautiful cake! My goal is to me more social I tend to isolate from people.
Congrats! My goal for the next year is to improve my cake decorating skills!
Isn't this supposed to be Billie's cake? *scratches head in confusement*
Happy Blogoversary!
My goal for the next year is to lost 30 lbs! Ive been baking so much that i now have to lose weight! I did it once (for my wedding) and i know i can do it again.
Mmm the cake looks delicious! WHat a good breakfast?
One goal for the next year is to make a vegan version of my favorite bacon chocolate chip cookies for my vegan friends who think I'm crazy!
Congrats on 1 great year!
Happy anniversary! I just found your site a couple weeks ago… But I've been addicted to it ever since!
The cake is def worth a try!!!!
My goal this year is to perfect a replica of Italian sandwhich cookies from aliota's in ny for my bf. He loves them, I'm getting closer (btw… Hw also doesn't remember the name, which has made this a little more of an adventure!) but I sti have some perfecting to do!
Yeah! My goal is to quit stressing out about EVERYTHING!
Love the blog! My goal is to learn to better balance my private life with my work life.
Happy Blogoversary!! I am so making this cake for my dad! He loves italian cream cake! YUM! My goals are to spend more time with my amazing family and awesome friends!
This gaveaway is amazing! And I'm so glad to learn about this blog. My goal for the next year is to figure out a way to earn a living (or maybe part of a living) while doing something I love. Fingers crossed!!
erin.shiloh@gmail.com
Happy Blogaversary!
My goal for the next year is to develop my blog into a place where my friends and others can share their ideas about food, being green, and travel. I love all the things you have put together of your favorites.
I want to improve my bread-making skills, especially kneading by hand.
Happy Blogoversary! My goal is post regularly on my blog and finish some of the sweaters that I've started, but haven't finished.
Awesome! My goal is to learn how to use fondant. I've been avoiding it for years because I never wanted to deal with it and now is the time to take that leap!
My goal is to make a better loaf of bread. It has always alluded me.
My goal is to have book three turned in to my publisher. My lifelong goal has been to turn a perfect cartwheel, but that ain't gonna happen this side of heaven.
Happy blogoversary! I've been thinking about that cake since I saw it on PW's site and now I may have to break down and try it…
My goal for the next year is to get back on track. Unforeseen circumstances threw me off and I just want to be where I was!
What I hope to accomplish this year is to find a certain peace within myself. Things are getting really stressful for me with school, and other things. So definitely… Less stress and peace.
I am hoping to get used to working with fondant… and improving the taste.
Happy Blogoversary! My goal is to finally finish my degree by the summer of 2010 and to be more positive. Oh, and to learn to make real french croissants!
Make a beautiful layer cake. And get back to the gym on a regular basis…
Happy Blogoversary!
In a month I am going to leave my job to stay home with my daughter. Aside from being with her and taking care of our little family, what I am most looking forward to is perfecting my baking skills enough to know how to 'make up' my own recipe.
teachergirl24@hotmail.com
I hope to get my recipes in a cookbook of some type. With hundreds of cookbooks, blogs that I follow, family hand me down recipes, and hundreds of clipped recipes… Oh my! I am hopping to try to find a better way to organize!
Congrats on your blogoversary!
happy anni! well, these aren't baking-related, but my goals of the year are to take my comps for grad school and start my dissertation prospectus. i like to procrastinate, um, i mean, expand my horizons beyond nineteenth-century french literature, by baking, so i'm sure this giveaway would help in my endeavors.
My goal is to buy a cake pan and make an actual cake! I always make cupcakes because I still don't have any cake pans-I'm 32 years old, with no cake pans? Anyways, congrats on your blog and thanks for the giveaway! (love your pics!)
My goal is to learn how to make sweets and not eat all of them! Is it possible?
my grand goal is to practice 'forgiveness'. my cooking/baking goal is pancakes. I make horrible pancakes. Once I master them it will on to the next ??? BTW a big, fat congrats on one year.
Happy Blogaversery!
My goal is to spend more time with my children. I just feel like I have so much to do and never enough time!
Yum for that cake!! My goal is to learn to sew and make something lovely!
http://www.trimmedandtaylored.blogspot.com
To bake and decorate my first cake!
I sadly have too many goals and too short of an attention span. My kitchen goal is to churn (and eat) my way through Lebovitz' The Perfect Scoop. Life goal is to get into grad school.
One of my goals is to try to bake more homemade treats instead of the store bought ones with chemicals. Homemade is so much better for us:)
My goal for next year is to have last a significant amount of weight, and to plant a garden
Mmm I agree, that cake looks soo delicious. Making me hungry…
My goal in the next year is to find a job, but not neglect my true passion for art and hopefully find some way to get a sustainable income from doing what I love. Also to save up enough money to move out on my own and pay my own bills and be independent
kwaruszewski@yahoo.com
I want to master making layer cakes!
I have been wanting to bake that cake since Ree first posted about it… And your picture of it is so… Tasty looking :O)
My goal for the next year is to learn how to sew with a sewing machine. It has been a desire of mine for a long time now (since I was a little girl), but I've stupidly never really made up my mind just to do it. And that just has to change this year. Not only would it save me a ton of money, I would feel like even MORE of a domestic goddess. I love LOVE LoVe to bake, but man oh man would I love to sew, too.
Congratulations on one whole year!!! You've come a long way! I hope my new little blog amounts to even half of what yours has :O)
My goal is to make more time for myself.
that's a pretty awesome-looking cake–the toasted coconut is a fabulous touch.
congrats on hitting a year! my goal? i guess that would be to challenge myself in the kitchen rather than going the safe route with muffins and loaves and bars, as i'm wont to do.
My goal is to be happier and healthier. I think my family will benefit too!
Love Ree!
I am going totry more bread things like foccacia, rolls, and brioche!
happy blogoversary!!! my goal for next year is really weighty….i want to survive 5 classes while still making time for the kids and hubby and of course, baking. should prove interesting!
Love your blog! This feels like new years resolutions. My goal is to expand my business to include cakes, so I am signed up for a class in August. then of course there is always the weight loss thing…..
I would like to save up for a better macro lens and learn to take better pictures of my cupcakes
Happy Blogaversary! Love your tasty blog!
Goal? Hmmm. I would like to lose 10 pounds by the end of the year–not an easy task for a cookie/anything baked lover like me!
My goal for this year is to make our treats at home instead of buying processed ones. Right now, my children and I are trying ice-cream recipes..one(at least) per week. My Baking Addiction has given me a much needed jolt of inspiration!
Cakes looks divine!
One of my goals in the up coming year is also to become a better photographer.
Your giveaway sounds great!
Everything looks delicious. My goal is to spend more time with my kids…maybe even baking
Thanks for the giveaway, and Happy Blogoversary!!
Hmmmm my blog goal is to perfect homemade caramel. So far i've never been successful!!! And maybe also getting a new fancy shmancy camera to take nicer pics.
Congrats on your blogiversary, it goes by fast doesn't it???
You have a great blog. Definitely bookmarked.
My goal for the next year is too get my sugar cookies noticed by more people.
Happy blogversary.
WendyT
Wow what a wonderful giveaway.
My goal for the year is to get decluttered, more organized and also to at least once a month try something I've never done before.
This month I (YES ME) made homemade dill pickles for the first time ever. They were great.
They were also soooo easy, I don't know why I kept putting it off.
Sue
Okay, this time I hope to get my comments right! When I congratulated you and said how much I liked your blog, I forgot to tell you my goal. My goal is to try at least 1, but I hope more, new recipe each week. I need to get out of my rut!
My goal is to find a job that I really like. One that makes me happy.
My goal is to create a collection of family recipes, sounds simple enough…but I've got a big family to gather from. Happy Blogaversary to you fellow teacher!
My goal this year is to keep painting and learning new techniques.
Congrats on the blogversary! My goal for next year is to learn how to decorate cakes! So hopefully I win this, because that prize pack will be extra handy
My goal for the next year is to do more cooking and baking, but not eat a lot of it so I can lose weight.
My goal is to never by boxed mixes to bake something or buy store bough bread…always make everything from scratch!
I am not even a big cake fan, but that picture made me drool a bit!! =) My goal for this year is to make it through my second year of college alive! Oh, and of course bake more than last year!
congrats on your one year blogiversary! i just recently celebrated mine, too. i recently discovered your blog and i look forward to trying out some of the recipes youve posted! my goal for the next year is to run a 5k without stopping to walk!
jkarkoski003@yahoo.com
I too want to learn more about photography. Although I have already upgraded my camera I still have a long way to go.
Congratulations Ms. Jamie on your blogoversary!
This cake? I want to make it. Now. I have nothing to make it FOR (except perhaps my own birthday? How sad is that?) but I want to!!!
Since it's my birthday this week I've been thinking a LOT about the next year (it's the last year of my 20s). I have decided that I have two major goals: to get a new job (this one is making me really sick; bad environment coupled with too many hours… and not enough money to boot) and to buy a house (hubby and I are in month number 2 of looking… finally seeing things that are worth considering but they're still overpriced for us). I hope to start my thirties settled in our own house and with a job that I like!!!
That cake look ah-mazing. I so badly wish I had the ingredients on hand to make it today!
Happy Blogversary to you!
Goals for this year.. 1)To get my youngest's epilepsy under control. He was diagnosed in June and we are on the 2nd drug with little luck thus far. 2) Get back into TWD witha vengeance, I have fallen off the wagon in the past few months (see above) and seriously want to get back into it. 3) Keep doing what we are doing, raising 3 happy healthy boys.
Happy Blogoversary! My goal for the year to find a job I really enjoy. I know it will be tough right now, but I'm hopeful!
My mouth is watering just from the pic! My goal for the coming year is to cook healthier for my husband and kids!
My goal is to make my son's first birthday cake! I am practicing already!
Ahhh! I just made this exact cake two days ago and it was a disaster. My layers were completely sunk in the middle. The crunchy sugar on top was weird too – but the main thing is my layers did not turn out at all. It looked nothing like yours. I checked other recipes and none of the recipes called for baking powder. This recipe has all three main levening agents (baking powder, buttermilk, and baking soda). I had convinced myself that was the problem until I saw your beautiful cake. I feel like screaming. Ü
The icing is to die for though…I keep eating spoonfuls – YUM.
I want to cook healthier meals in the coming year.
My goal is to do more work on my "gotta try it someday list". On my blog I keep a list of things I want to get around to someday.
My goal this year is to master my CSA share and not let any of it go to waste because I don't know what to do with it.
I'm a newbie to your blog, I love the inspiration I find here!
Congrats on year 1! (Too bad I didn't show up until a few months ago – ha!) Anyway, my goals for the next year are to put together a cookbook with all the awesome recipes I'm finding and make some great treats for people, and to get into nursing school. We'll see how it all goes…..
My goal is to keep cooking! I really just started and I'm loving, loving, LOVING it. I'm a compliment whore, so hearing that people love my cooking is super motivating!!
Happy Blogoversary! My goal for the next year is to learn to make the perfect French macaron!
Happy Blogiversary!!! I really enjoy reading your blog – here's to many more years!! And that cake looks fantastic!
My goal for the next year is to get completely over my fear of yeast. I don't want to be intimidated by yeast in any form! I'd like to be able to tackle any bread recipe you can throw at me!
-Amy
http://www.singforyoursupperblog.com
I have been enjoying your blog over the last few months. I have made a few things and been so happy with everything I have tried so far. My goal next year is to be the best mom I can be to my two little ones. As well as enjoy my time with them while they are young.
Thanks so much for all your blogging!
My goal is to finish more knitting projects than I start in the next year. I have many unfinished objects taking up space and creative room. And right after that I have got to make that cake! Happy blogoversary!
Goal is to graduate!!
Thanks for the giveaway.
My goal for the next year is to make new friends. I just transferred to a new school and need to be more outgoing and meet new people!
Connors.g@neu.edu
My goal is to start running my small business that I've been taking forever to launch!
I'd love to win this giveaway as I love to bake and cook
Fantastic giveaway, I'm a huge fan of your blog!
My goal is to just be a better cook, more successes in the kitchen, less bombs!
My goal is to learn a balance between baking and cooking yummy things while exercising and eating moderatley at the same time!
julienielsen55@frontiernet.net
Happy blogversary! My goal for the next year, is more cooking with pictures and new recipes.
Love your site!. My goal for the next year is to up my culinary skills and hopefully attend culinary school. It has been a forever dream.
I am an ok baker. I would love to make it so that I am better than just ok. One of the things I'm going to try to perfect is the baking of cutout cookies. Of late I have had no patience but I really want to do it. I have some cute cookie cutters.
I'd also like to bring in some more healthful food into mine and my husbands eating.
One of my goals for baking in the next year is to learn how to make the perfect baguette.
katitafenn@hotmail.com
I think in the next year I want to be able to create my own cupcake recipes instead of just relying on other people's recipes.
HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY!
What a great giveaway! I love your site! One of my goals for this year is to save enough cash for a new car so that when I need one I will already have that money set aside.
Happy Blogoversary!
that cake looks delicious. it is getting starred. my goal is to make more of the recipes that I have starred
Gosh, only a year already? You are such a great blogger and have a wonderful blog! I really enjoy your posts and photos.
My goals for next year are many. But I would love to really commit to truly healthier eating. I'm really trying, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Keep up the great work!
Hiya there!
Here are two of my short term goals:
1. Get in shape by going to the gym more often and eating better. I've been eating out too much and cooking good and healthy home-cooked meals might help. (I'm not over-weight but I could if I keep this life style)
2. Try new recipes… I cook/bake the same stuff too often. I started following you here and on twitter to help me achieve this goal.
So…. pick me!!!
I hope to be more organized in our new home, although with kiddo #5 on the way, that may be a dream
My goal is to get a bike and start biking to campus! I'm moving to Seattle for grad school and terrified of biking in a big city… I'm thinking helmet + padding to keep me safe from cars.
Thank you for all the work you put in this blog. I enjoy reading it so much!
My goal is to stop buying such processed foods if I can make them at home. I just started with English muffins and will never buy them again!
My goals are also to continue to work on my photos and get a new camera!
My goal is to lose weight and get in shape. Your blog isn't helping!
That cake looks magnificent! I'm really trying to expand my horizons. I've been stuck in a bit of a cooking rut, and am really trying to branch out. Having so much fun doing so!
my goal is to get out of my current office job and pursue a career in culinary… perhaps culinary school? Perhaps.
I just have to take the first step..! ilean811(AT)hotmail.com
I just discovered your blog via Bake It Pretty – congrats on your blogiversary!
One of my goals for the next year is to get more practice in layer cake decorating. I took a cake decorating class earlier in the year and would just like to hone my skills and whip out an awesome cake like it was nothing!
Mmmmm, this cake looks deLISH! Can't wait to try it. I have lots of goals for this year, and next year, and next year . . . LOL! One, though, for this next year is to learn to take better macro photo, I'm already working on it. Also, I recently lost 15 lbs. so of course my goal is to KEEP IT OFF, and to lose perhaps 10 more, then I'll be at my perfect weight. whoohoooo!
To try to use my hundreds and hundreds of cookbooks more – making new recipes and be kinder to people. Happy Blogoversary!
congrats on your first anniversary, wish you many more! that cake looks scrumptous!
I would love to start taking my cookies at least a couple times a month to the nursing home down the street.
I would love to learn to make and decorate tiered wedding cakes. I work at a boring office job each day so I am looking for a way to use the other side of my brain!
I just have to say how much I love checking out your blog each week, and drooling over all your amazing photos of your creations. I'm looking to get better at using my own new SLR camera this coming year, and also to expand my creative horizons by finding better ways to use up whatever happens to be around the house in my fridge and pantry!
I just have to say how much I love checking out the amazing photos you take of your creations each week. This coming year, I'm hoping to also improve my photography skills with my new SLR camera, and to expand my creative horizons by finding different and better ways to use up whatever food happens to be in my pantry and fridge for impromptu meals
Wow, that cake looks delicious! My goal for the next year is to become a first time home owner! Fingers crossed….
What a great giveaway. I am baking gluten-free/vegan cupcakes for a friend's wedding and I really need piping tips! My goal for next year is to make a pie crust–I've never made one!
Just found your blog today. Should be fun to follow. My goal is to keep doing what I'm doing but find a little more free time to relax and enjoy life: )
My goal this year is to apply and get into a graduate school in my state.
Thank you for hosting this giveaway!
shen[dot]margaret[at]gmail[dot]com
My goal for the next year is to lose 15 pounds and still continue to bake for my friends, family and co-workers.
aapfeffer@gmail.com
HAPPY BLOGOVERSARY!!!!
I have a couple goals… One to find the BEST chocolate chip cookie and brownie recipes and two, to lose 30 lbs! And hopefully the first one won't impede on the second one!
theon115@gmail.com
Yumm! My goal for next year is to bake 1 new thing each month.
Happy Happy Blogoversary!
This cake looks awesome! And happy anniversary!
I so need to try that cake! One of my cooking/baking goals for the year is to challenge myself with more recipes using yeast.
Happy Bogoversary to you! I am closing my eyes and just enjoying the virtual cake! Great choice – Italian Creme is my specialty!!
My goal would be pie perfection. I love pies, except I just can't make a good crust and meringue. It weeps every time (how sad! LOL) Thanks for your blog! I really enjoy!
My goal for next year is to do a triathalon – maybe then i can work off all the pounds i add on from baking all these sweet treats!!
Have been following your blog for some time now – thanks for the inspiration! Happy Blogoversary.
My goal for the next year is to organize my recipe binders and to try my hand at golf.
bake fabulous treats for my new baby's birthdays and holidays and of course LOSE THE BABY WEIGHT
I have baked a few cupcake recipes and can't seem to make them so they are moist!
Thanks for the giveaway!
And I tweeted about it! twitter.com/marnie1124
Great giveaway – my goal for the next year is to learn how to slow down and enjoy this thing called life a bit more, instead of racing around like the crazy person I am.
I hope to spend less time on Facebook so that I can focus on my school work and some art.
Thanks for the giveaway!
corynnchan@yahoo.com
I'd like to just be more disciplined. That's all
Thanks for the giveaway!
jitchan@gmail.com
I would like to read more. Thanks for the giveaway!
knh.tan@gmail.com
My goal for next year is to become more brave and bake more from scratch, not mixes!
I would like to be more disciplined in my studies. Can't think of anything else. Well, thanks for the giveaway!
rachaelclj@yahoo.com
I want to try to work faster. That has always been a problem for me. Thanks for the giveaway!
chanfamily65@yahoo.com
I have so many goals that I categorize them. 2 in the baking category are: learn to make pies and master 5 fantastic cake recipes.
I like your blog a lot–found it on Bake It Pretty. I'll be back!
I tweeted about you!
http://twitter.com/corynnchan
corynnchan@yahoo.com
My goal is to learn how to decorate cakes. Happy Blogoversary!!!!!
I have a horrendous list of home improvements to tackle sometime this year – how is it July already??!! Love your blog and thanks for the giveaway!
jmhamlin826 AT yahoo DOT com
My goal is to lose another 30 pounds (already lost 40) but still enjoy baking and cooking – whether it's finding new recipes with lower fat and calories, or just being able to enjoy one bite of something and passing the rest along to family and friends.
Congratulations on the anniversary!
My goal for this year is have a good-looking, nicely established blog full of the things I love to bake and eat.
Oh, and I want to be pregnant!
My goal is cook with more local ingredients!
Congrats on your blog-iversary!
My goal is to make more things for gifts -quilts,tablerunners,purses,aprons and be more hospitable (always with a meal or dessert).
My goal is to be a better baker. To learn from my mom all her baking tricks and try new things!
My goal is to organize 2 weddings this year. I must start small.
Cheers!!
Just found your blog through Marthaandme. Such yummy looking things. Goals for the next year are to become a Daring Baker, exercise more so I can eat all these yummy recipes I encounter, and to improve my blogging abilities.
Hello! I want to bake more healthy.
We have a wonderful store in our town that sells special flours, spices, etc. and other organic items.
Also, I want to learn to make my pastries look prettier.
Many thanks…..Cindi
jchoppes[at]hotmail[dot]com
Goal: Be a better wife and mother by making healthier meals for my family. That way we can enjoy the amazing desserts guilt-free.
My goal for the year is to save enough $ for my husband and I to visit my family in Ohio. Many extended relatives still haven't met him, and I can't wait to show him around my hometown!
I feel like I should say Happy Blogoversary to me, since I've gotten so much use out of this blog. Keep up the good work!
My goal for the next year is to use all of the baking pans and utensils I own. And I have a lot of that stuff.
That cake looks like something I need to eat right this minute… now I just need to find someone who delivers!
Happy Blogiversary! My one year blogiversary is coming up very soon too! (Hope I didn't miss it!) Anyway, I'd love to enter your contest. My goal for the next year is to get more people to visit my blog. Would you care to take a peek? I found yours via What's New by Jen Duncan.
S.W.A.K.
http://www.CuteStuffInside.blogspot.com
Happy blogversary!
My goal is to perfect the french macaron!
cookienurse@gmail.com
Happy Blogoversary!
My goal for next year is to perfect my Grandmother's coconut cake. Oh how wonderful it would be if it would turn out like hers!! agrimmett@gmail.com
That cake looks absolutely delicious! My goal this year is to finish my quilt… and improve on my food photography.
What a fun blog, just started blogging myself. My goal for next year is to put together all my family recipes and put them in a book-just on snapfish for a keep sake.
Delicious looking cake! My goal for the next year is to try one new recipe each week.
YUM YUM 8}! I have to learn to make this cake. My goal for next year is to bake-n-give. There are so many wonderful things on your blog I need to try and give to everyone I love. Thanks for giving me a chance for this awesome giveaway!
My goal is as simple and basic as my baking; I want to learn how to bake, in general
I hope to at least finish sewing what's on my sewing table… and a few more projects. With a baby on the way… we'll see if that's possible.
What fun prizes….
One of my "to do" is to complete my son's Air Force scrapbook. I have all of the supplies but it is just a matter of getting it done.
HOLY COW! Now that's a lot of comments. You go girl.
Your Italian cream cake looks great! I've been wanting to try it.
Goal #1 learn how to balance (better) working fulltime, being a mom (& all that entails!) and doing things I like (baking & blogging).
Goal #2 schedule one on one time with each of my children AND my honey!
Wish me luck! Not with the contest but with my goals. Time management outside of work has never been my strong suit!
Happy blogoversary, Jamie! Here's too another great year for you & My Baking Addiction!
~ingrid
I have one biggie goal for next year and that's to have a baby. Obviously it will be late next year (not even preggers yet!) but we're hoping!
My goals, wow, there are a lot of them are you sure you really want to know? I think more than big, broad goals more of my life mantra is to achieve a lot, be productive, learn a lot -but to live simply and enjoy the little things and stay happy! For the next year that just means improving myself, keeping the house cleaner, learning more about cooking and baking, being a better mom to my kids. Is that good?
going on 3rd session of michael's cake decorating course 1 …goal is to do courses 2 & 3 in the coming year…and gum paste would be major.
Hi! I'm new here, but already a big fan. I found you via Bake it Pretty.
My goal for the year is to finally figure out how to make the perfect French Macaroon. I've seen them all over the blogs recently, but each time I've tried, it ends in failure. I must keep trying!
My goal for the next is to go back to work. Hopefully it will happen despite the economy.
my goal is to learn more about my new DSLR. I want to learn how to use the manual settings and move away from the pre-programmed dials.
I am dieing to perfect my gluten free pizza crust. Ive been working on it for about a year, there are so many different ingredients you can make it out of, each produces a different product.
Hrm, goals for next year…
I'd having to say improving my photography skills as well. Looking forward to taking a class this September. Seems like there is always something new to learn with a dSLR.
Happy Birthday My Baking Addiction!
Oh how fun!! Would love these tools!
i love your blog
my goal for next year is to try new fun cupcake recipes!
My goal next year is start my own garden
My goal is to try and perfect my photography skills as well…and to be more productive with my time…and to finish a few books I've been trying to read.
My goals for the year are to keep up my blog, bake a lot of new things, learn how to take "good" food pictures, paint the interior of my house, lose weight (may be difficult with all that baking going on) and run a 5k.
I love Italian creme cake, but have never made it. Now I will HAVE to try it.
My goal is to become a better cook for my family. And with the help of all my blogger buddies and their GREAT recipes.
Thanks for the chance, and happy blogiversary. Hope to see you for many more years.
Your site looks DELICIOUS! My goal is to learn how to work with fondant.
My goal for the coming year is to crochet an afghan. I've been crocheting mostly baby blankets the past few years, but I want to make something bigger. I may give it away as a gift, or keep it for myself, who knows? My baking goal is to get back to baking biscotti. It's been too long since I baked biscotti, and I want some!
I Tweeted: https://twitter.com/amylou61/status/2768655358
That cake looks simply YUMMY! Hmmm, goals for the next year… Working harder to make both my Etsy shops successful and diligently post on my food blog until I reach my 1 year blogoversary!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
happy birthday, baking addiction!
that cake looks glorious, it's definitely been favorited
my goal for this year is to master food photography. i feel vulnerable when i made something fantastic but can't show how tempting it really looks because my pictures turned out bad.
i was lucky enough to have one of my pictures featured on foodgawker.com, but every attempt since then has been denied.
i would like to get really great at photographing my creations so that i can submit to fg on a fairly regular basis, because that's sort of my standard for knowing my stuff looks good.
happy birthday, mba! i hope i make it that long!
I love your blog! Everything looks so yummy. My goal for next year is to take cake decorating classes. This winter, I started selling cookies of a secret family recipe of iced sugar cookies called ice cream cookies. I never would have expected a year ago that I would be selling 5 dozen to sometimes 20 dozen cookies handmade and hand decorated each week. I hope by taking the decorating classes, I can decorate not only my cookies better but branch out to cakes.
Thanks for such a wonderful blog!!
Danielle
dndavis5@gmail.com
Italian Cream cake looks great. My goal is I would love to start to work with yeast….to me it is scarry
Everything looks so "YUMMY" my goal is to be more patient and understanding with everyone especially my 2 grandson's!!
I do have some cooking goals, like finishing my personal cookbook. But the most important goal for this year is seeing my lay-off in Dec as a blessing so I can go back to school, get my MBA, and tell coleege! I am going thru the admit process now.
lreyno5@aol.com
Mastering techniques that "frighten" me or are simply new to my repertoir are my goals for this year. Pastry cream, ice cream, the perfect layer cakes, brioche…
wow, that cake looks dangerous!
My goal is to slow down and enjoy my kids baby years. No more rushing to do things if they want to play with me in the kitchen!
LAphant81@aol.com
I love your blog! My goal for the next year is to start a "petite treats" business out of my home.
My goal for next year is to improve my cake and cupcake decorating skills.
Great giveaway!!
I am a new follower and already loving this blog.
My goal for next year is to work on this long list of recipes and perfect them for myself. Graduate from college and hopefully get accepted into culinary school.
only US residents ?
But nevertheless, my goals for next year is to join a Cake decorating competition, and WIN !!!
Congrats on your blogoversary! Your blog is truly fantastic! I have two goals – finish a triathlon with my husband and upgrade to a dSLR camera!
My goal for next year is to make a layered cake….. Why am I so hesistant!?!?!?!
I can't wait to try making that cake! My goals for the next year include getting MY blog off the ground, working in a kitchen to work towards my long term goal of becoming a personal chef, and create a delicious pickle ice cream recipe. Sounds crazy, but I'll bet it is fantastic!
My goal for the next year is to better my baking skills.
Happy Blogoversary!!!
In the next year I'd like to get more organized. I'm such a mess and can use all the help I can get. I'd did learn how to make bread this past year so there's hope I can do the next goal.
Elzlop8@msn.com
U tweeted about your awesome giveaway
elzlop8@msn.com
twitter.com/elzlop8
That cake looks amazing!
Yummy! My goal for the next year is to become debt free! oh, and to grew my own herbs (even though I'm not anywhere close to having a 'green' thumb).
Happy Anniversary!
I hope I win, I could really use all those delicious cake baking supplies!
My goal for this year is to be a better mommy blogger, as I see blogging as the new scrapbooking. And to promote and sell from my etsy shop.
http://www.photonouveau.etsy.com
Thanks for the opportunity to win!
As an Italian, I've made only one version of this cake and I must say that yours looks magnificent. I must try this. I am glad to have found your blog and added you to my fave blog list and started following you on twitter. Stop by to chat sometime too if you have time. Ciao! Roz (bella)
HI. I really really want your blogoversary giveaway. I mean really. really really. So much I can taste the beautiful cupcakes that I plan to make with it!:) My goal for next year is to ALWAYS have dessert after dinner. ALWAYS. Nobody should miss the fun and love put into handmade goodness ovenbaked with love. And if you pick me…I promise to make lots of goody goodies for everyone I care about. Thanks for the giveaway. fingers crossed. XXX
Christy Rose
WigglewormDesign@aol.com
My goal is to learn how to make molded chocolates with perfect shells.
I absolutely love your blog! I have many goals for this coming year but most importantly I want to teach my 17 year old daughter some survival cooking skills! She graduates from HS next year…
jansanderson@sisna.com
My goal is to learn to cook well enough that my flatmates and I shall not perish of lame food during college.
MY GOAL FOR NEXT YEAR IS TO BE A LITTLE MORE LAID BACK..NOT SO PUSHY..LIFE WILL HAPPEN IF YOU LET IT!!WATERBUGG4@YAHOO.COM
That cake looks awesome. My goal for the year is to be in a play! Also, it is to bake more with my step-girls for special occasions instead of buying desserts at the store.
Those look fabulous! I just discovered your blog and love it. My goal for this year is to continue to work on my fondant cakes. The one I am working on right now is for my daughter's birthday on Sunday. Here's the link to what it's supposed to look like: http://www.debbiebrownscakes.co.uk/favourite_character_cakes/pages/thomas_the_tank_engine_jpg.htm
Enjoy!
My goal is to buy a house
The Italian Cream Cake is worthy of an anniversary!!! My goal for the next year is to cook and bake from scratch as much as I can relying on fresh ingredients. I want my time in the kitchen to be inspirational!!
My goal for this year is to make all my kids birthday cakes (or cupcakes) I LOVE baking but for some reason when birthdays come around I tend to just buy them a cake……. This year is different, I am going to make them each something EXTRA special!!
my goal is to spend more time cooking with my grandchildren this year. two of them really love to cook, and believe it or not, they are both boys! they take that after me i guess because i love to cook and bake, bake most of all.