That’s a snippet of my 2013 year in blogging report from JetPack (a plugin I use for my site). It still floors me that people keep going back to the original Sriracha Chocolate Cupcake recipe, though at least now you’re redirected to the improved recipe. Folks looooove sriracha (me included).

So what else? Sure, I wrote 103 posts, but what does that break down into?

  • 13 cakes baked (some with recipes, some without)
  • 21 cupcake recipes: some brand new, some reworked from previous years, and some to raise money for charity
  • An Evening of Sweets & Treats, which I co-hosted with Melissa T. of Cupcake Smash Coordinator fame and helped raise money and awareness for the Philadelphia Food Trust
  • 6 breakfast pastry recipes
  • 5 cookie recipes
  • About a half dozen anatomical sugar cookies baked for Mary Roach in honor of her Gulp book tour (and I got to give them to her myself!)
  • 1 Cupcake Smash competition, where I gained a lot of compliments for a cupcake that really tasted like a bloody mary (sadly, no trophy).
  • 216 cookies baked and sold to raise money for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer in Sept. 2013
  • 2 pie competitions, in which I took home ribbons from both
  • 1 blueberry dessert competition, in which I entered my blueberry chocolate truffle cake and won 3rd place
  • $150 raised for She’s the First
  • 1 epic food blogger cookie swap, which raised nearly $14K for Cookies for Kids’ Cancer

Wow. That’s a lot of work. But I love it. I love baking, and I love sharing it with all of you.

So what will 2014 bring? Well, I have a couple irons in the fire (as they like to say), but for the moment I think I’m going to take a slow January to relax. I’ll still be posting, since I have a couple of recipes I want to share, and I definitely plan on baking myself a beautiful birthday cake.

I hope 2014 brings all of you the right amount of joy, inspiration, and challenges. Try new things, and always know that if you have a baking question you can reach out to me. I love helping people out and want you to realize that, yes, you can bake. It’s not magic.

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