Akram's Ideas

Category - Food

Holiday Menu

With Thanksgiving only a week or so away, I thought I'd share some of my favorite holiday menu recipes. Many of these both delicious and super easy.

Recipe Apps

With Thanksgiving just around the corner I thought I'd share some recipe apps that can help with your holiday menu planning.

S'more Pie S'more Pie

S’more Pie

For my birthday I thought I would like something a little chocolaty and thought why not a S'more Pie.

Coffee & Doughnuts Cake Coffee & Doughnuts Cake

Monday Morning

This year for the county fair I entered a giant coffee flavored coffee mug cake and Simpson like doughnut.

Lemon Meringue Pie

For the Fourth of July me and my hubby decided to have a cookout, just the two of us. He decided he’d do the grilling and make hamburgers, and I’d be in charge of dessert. I usually make cake, or a jello type pie, but this time I wanted...

German Chocolate Cake

Our next door neighbors have been rather sweet to us, and in return we decided to do something sweet for them, by making sweets.

Candy Bar Cheesecake

As school begins to wind down, the student organizations prepare for their final meetings of the semester. Throughout the year, I have been making cakes here and there and mostly feeding it to the Graphic Arts Club, since their meetings are more of...

Apple Day Cheesecake

Every year Pittsburg State University celebrates “Apple Day”. This yearly event dates back to 1903 when the newly established University needed funds for a new building, and thus the University Principle, Pittsburg...

Monkey Bread

For years I have been curious about the Monkey Bread recipe that is on the back of the Pillsbury Grand’s biscuits containers. It looked tasty but I thought to myself that it would never come out as nice as it does in the picture. Then on...

The Bird’s Nest

When I first decided to take a class in cake decorating I didn’t expect to pick it up so quickly. I’m not really the best of cooks, and I’m usually not that patience of a person (but of course teaching has really helped...

4th of July Cake Pops

About a month ago I stumbled upon bakerella.com website a learned about adorable little cake balls. I hand never heard of them before, but they were so cute. Essentially they are mashed up cake rolled into little balls and then dipped...

Sweet Summer

This summer has been super busy and it’s still only July. So what have I been up to, well besides working on curriculum for my classes, I took a cake decorating class, at Michaels. It’s been a lot of fun. I was worried to, since...