When our friend Laura asked me to make for her wedding, I immediately jumped on board with an enthusiastic “yes!” Making a wedding cake turned out to be a lifelong dream I didn’t even realize…
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Foodie Friday: Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes
I hosted a small dinner party recently with only one request from my guests: that I provide a dessert that involved both chocolate and peanut butter. I couldn’t say no to such a classic flavor…
Foodie Friday: Chocolate Ganache Baby Gender Reveal Cake
After completing my Master’s program in August, I have been wrapped up in a baking frenzy. Luckily, my friends and family have indulged this new passion and let me bake things for them (good for…
Foodie Friday: Ombre Baby Gender Reveal Cake
Jess and I have been lucky to be surprised with the pregnancies of two of our best lady-friends recently: Mariko and Erin. We are over the moon with joy for both of them (and their…
Foodie Friday: Classic Carrot Birthday Cake
The more I become fixed into this stage called “adulthood,” the stranger it seems sometimes. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how growing up forces changes in my relationships with family members. People with…
Book Review: The Anne of Green Gables Cookbook by Kate Macdonald
When thinking of the theme of time, I think books are the perfect example. They allow a person to stop the time around them and be transported into another world, another era. My childhood was…
Foodie Friday: Boston Cream Pie
The weather has been a little funky around here and frankly I like it. Sunny days, warms days and dare I say it, even rainy days that I have enjoyed. There is something about a…
Banana Cake, Chalkboard Coasters and Birthday Fun!
I’ve come to love doing a special post just for Linz on her birthday. This year I decided to experiment with both a new cake recipe and a craft. For the cake I made a…
Mmmmm Monday: Pear Upside Down Cake
Hello Lovelies! I cannot believe how long I have been absent from Sweet Athena, I have missed this place. About a year ago when Linz and I started Foodie Friday, we debated between doing our…
Asparagus Cake
From the moment I first spied Rosie’s breathtaking Asparagus Cake over at Sweetapolita, I knew I would try to make one myself. I only needed an excuse to make an asparagus cake. As you read…
A Garden Party
This past weekend, we celebrated a friend’s birthday with a theme that fits her well. She has a love for gardening that I can only equate to my brothers’ shared childhood love of videogames. Or…
Happy Birthday, Sweet Athena!
This April marks an exciting moment in Sweet Athena history, it is the two year anniversary of our blog! To celebrate all the food and craft adventures Linz and I have experienced here, we decided…
Foodie Saturday: Chocolate Mochi Cake
Though a certain work situation kept me from posting a “Foodie Friday” yesterday, I’m deciding to go ahead and share the recipe. Let’s call today “Foodie Saturday!” The inspiration for this dessert came from the…
Happy Birthday Linz!
Vintage Sugar Cube made this 6 Layers of SexyToday is Sweet Athena Lindsey’s birthday! Hooooo-RAY! I am excited to celebrate with her later this weekend, but as for today I cannot get my mind off…
jess + linz
Friends since middle school, we continue to inspire each other to be creative in our big, adult lives. Each season we take on a new theme to guide our crafting, cooking, and creating. We're up for trying anything, and things are bound to get messy. But that's just the way we like it.