Sweet Azz Cakes

I swear Ohio’s trying to kill me ☠️ Between the heat, the humidity, the off the charts rag w**d pollen counts, and the general air quality alert making air quality bounce between poor and very poor, I think the only things that could possibly fix me right now are a lobotomy to reduce the pressure, or to remove ever lymph node from my chest up. 😅 I DYIN over here. SOS

Take a little p*ekies! Bet you’ll find something you’ll love! Do it, you won’t 😉

Is it absolutely unhinged to drive 50 mins to go to Cleveland Curiosities for 10 mins just to buy a coveted tie dye tank top before they sell out and then drive an hour home in Cleveland rush hour traffic? Yes. Did I do it anyway? Also yes. Do I regret it even for a second? Not a chance 😎

Cleveland Curiosities merch is like Pokemon to me. Gotta collect ‘em all! 😂

Also: Peep Breadward being a jerk taking a zillion years to rise again in the background of blurry photo number 4 🙄😂

LMAO who thought it was a good idea to let us exist in the same timeline? Terrible decision on their part, the most wonderful bad decision ever for us 😂

Attending pride in besties town obvi calls for pride makeup and rainbow everything! Not pictured are the rainbkw bracelets, rainbow socks and rainbow vans 😂

Lest I not forget, Happy Be Gay Do Cr!me month to all my lovely followers!

This page is run by a she/her/they/them, q***r, grey ace, demi sexual, pan romantic! And probably a whole lot of other labels, but there’s so many that I think I relate to that I don’t even know anymore 😅

If you didn’t know, you do now!

Happy Pride Month to all 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (seriously wish there was a progressive pride flag emoji 😤)

With all the chaos of being sick and coworker birthday bakes, and general life chaos, I forgot to update all you weirdos on said general life chaos!

You know that job I started in February? Well, I finished round one of training, passed my servsafe certification, finished round two of training, and as of this week, have officially been promoted from a shift lead to assistant manager! My store team and district lead crew had nothing but praise and appreciation for everything I’ve accomplished in the 3 months since I was hired in and it was a lovely little surprise to find out on Wednesday after returning from my 3 days of sickness and days off.

Some of the district team was in house Wednesday to go over the program we use for scheduling and hiring and such with me and a few other teammates to give us an in depth overview of how it all works since there’s a lot of functions covered in the program. After we had the little class session they called my crew that was there at that point up front and surprised me with a cookie cake and my district lead gave a little sp*ech that nearly had me in tears (I held it together though!) and then got a picture of us all together to post in the district newsletter next week! It was so sweet and the picture is adorable and hilarious and I wish I could post it, but I cannot for privacy sake of myself and my team, but man I wish I could!

But yeah, new jobs going great and I love my team, no matter how frustrating and wild some days can be 💜

OH! AND I have health insurance again as of today! 🥳

I know this was a rather long celebratory post, so if you made it this far, my most sincere gratitude 💜

LOLOL

Leave it to Lex to somehow achieve that 😂

Much appreciate EVERYONE’s support though, regardless of the funny number bestie managed 💜

Caramel mocha and raspberry mocha cupcakes anyone?! 😇

It’s my coworkers birthday today, so of /course/ I promised cupcakes! I was given free rein for flavor, so I went with what I know she loves best: coffee! 😂

Chocolate cupcake with a bit of espresso powder added to umph up the flavor, chocolate espresso icing, and then caramel or raspberry filling, drizzle and the appropriate topping on each! Can’t wait to surprise her and the crew with them when I clock in innnn *counts* 50 minutes ☠️😂

I am usually the one that manages to avoid the stomach flu when it plagues the house, so me being the one to start it this round baffles me. I don’t even know how or where I managed to pick it up. I legit can’t even remember the last time I had the stomach flu, let alone vomited (besides from drinking too much, and even that was 8.5 years ago on my 22nd bday) Vomiting is one of my irrational fears, so the past 48 hours have been physical, mental, and emotional hell. I’m finally on the upswing, but now the rest of the house is down ☠️ I had such a good run, idk what happened, but man, I hate it. All I have to say is: Dear my poor household, I’m so f**ken sorry 😩 Off to collect them all supplies now. Gatorade, soup, and sprite, here I come 😅

Curled up in bed, sick with a stomach bug, or food poisoning, I’m unsure which at this point, video chatting with bestie between trips to the bathroom, and the following conversation takes place:

Alexin: “we must take extra good care of you, you’re obviously dying”

Me: “I mean, I’m trying my hardest not to die, I’ve managed to drink about half a bottle of Gatorade AND keep it down if that counts for anything”

Alexin: “shhhhhhh we must catastrophise, so that we can then be excited when you die…… WAIT I’M DISTRACTED… I MEANT EXCITED WHEN YOU LIVE “

Me, now trying my damndest not to laugh for fear of…. Well.. nevermind: “Disappointment when I live…. Damn Dude, thought we were the bestest homies…😂😂😂 Honestly though, me too right now, cuz I’m f**ken tired of this yo”

I’ve been up since 3am dealing with this GARBAGE after not falling asleep till around midnight, and knowing I had to at least make it to work at 6 to start things for the day until I could call people at a reasonable hour to cry in “feels bad bro” while asking them to come in early so I could leave. I thankfully managed to find enough coverage to be able to leave after 2 hours, and come home and go back to bed between bathroom adventures. My work crew are seriously the real MVP’s today and I owe them all my life (after I’m done dying first though) Needless to say, my diet today consists strictly of popcorn, crackers, water and Gatorade. Send memes

I had intended on making some long winded post with some kind of baked good for international pansexual and panromantic visibility day, but alas, I ended up at work nearly all day with a break between shifts just long enough hit up the local festival for a gyro and dip n dots before clocking back in to help close up shop. ☠️

So please accept this quick post, from your resident Panromantic with an obvious actual pan and kitchenware addiction, as my official visibility post 💙💚🧡🩷

And just for the hell of it, my favorite joking but not really joking response I give when a /specific/ question is asked:

“No no no, you’ve got it all wrong. I didn’t come out of the closet… You see, I was never in a /closet/ per se… And it’s actually all laid out pretty plainly for you! I came out of the pantry, obviously! How could you miss that little detail? I mean, come onnnn!”

So like, not to just absolutely bounce off of Alexin’s post here, but may I also suggest engagement in the form of:

🎵A casual piano G note🎵

Oh boy is there a story at the bottom of this bottle, and I’m 100% the pen.

Forever grateful for my bestie over at Cupcake Alchemist/October's Alchemist. Always there for me, even at the drop of a dime during an unexpected trauma triggered spiral I had earlier. It’s amazing how quickly and easily these things can be triggered sometimes, over seemingly stupid reasons, but having that person to call and immediately help emotionally regulate you and talk through why it triggered the response it did, seriously makes all the difference. Love you forever dude 💜 Mental heath triggers are wild, and sometimes you don’t realize you’re doing/watching/reading something that’s going to trigger you until it’s too late and the fight or flight response has already kicked in. Sometimes it’s as simple as seeing a single word, or a particular store. But at the end of the day, if I had one wish for all my followers, it’s that you all have or are able to find, a friend to lean on in those lowest of low moments 💜

Take your AI shidd and shove it back where shidd belongs. Your azz… or the toilet… I’ll make my cake AND eat it too, unlike all the AI generated garbage floating around.

No thanks, I Really Hate It 🙃😂

Ooooh she juicy, and messy, and absolutely FU**ED in the scrumptious department.. as any Strawberry Raspberry Rhubarb Crisp should be! That also means she photographed like total s**t though 😂☠️💩

WAIT WAIT WAIT…. HOW DID I MISS THAT I HIT 3K FOLLOWERS? WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? 3,018 OF YOU HERE FOR MY UNHINGED CHAOS AND BAKING? WOW 🥹🥹🥹

SNEAKIE PEEKIES

Not me just remembering shoebakery exists and realizing I can get custom cake/ice cream heels for my brothers wedding… please excuse me while I go scream into the void to desperately try to talk my ass out of spending 2-4x the amount I spent on the bridesmaid dress on a pair of these shoes because 🥹🥲☠️😅

So, uhhh… this is a thing I guess 😂😂😂 TWENTY MONTHS IM ☠️

How’d I spend mother day with my mom? Well, I worked 10-5, but once I got home, we adventured over to the neighbors yard to see if any of her rhubarb plants were still doing okay since it’s been rainy and chilly here again the past few days. We were in luck, cuz she sure did have a good number of them that had decent usable stalks! The neighbor only plants them cuz she loves the leaves and little bit of color, so once they’re mature it’s all free game! So NOW we have 4 full pounds of washed and cut rhubarb! Back to our rhubarb roots with this round though! Rhubarb jelly and rhubarb berry crisps soon!

Enjoy this photo dump of Aurora borealis from my side yard earlier. 🥹 I’m about to head back outside to see if I can get a better view now that it’s darker and hopefully easier to see with my eyes and not only through my camera 😅

Please help me help this lovely soul out! Please donate if you have the means to do so, and share to help spread the word. Everything has been so beyond rough for her lately and I’d love to see some weight be lifted from her poor shoulder 💜

Right at the top of the list of things I *really* struggle with: asking for help. Which is really weird, considering I've always had a servant's heart and get joy from helping others in any way that I am able.

However, I don't seem to struggle with expressing my emotions or words though, and I've definitely used my platform as free therapy to process through some things a time or two. 😉

I realize and appreciate that this has created some pretty genuine connections with some of you. I mean it when I've called you all my family! I've taken my followers on quite the journey, and you've really showed up for me all along the way.

Recent events have lead to some tough times for me. So much illness over winter, becoming a caregiver for my mom, her eventual death, and now being made to move with little time to plan, save, etc, after not working for a month.... Things are really hard!

Several of you who follow my page and journey have kindly asked about a gofu.ndme campaign. It took me a while to convince myself that I and my needs were worthy of this. Though I am pretty quick to want to help others where I can, being in the position to need help...this is a hard thing for me. A good friend expressed it like this "it wouldn't be a hand out, just a hand up" and that helped me let go of my reservations, a bit.

Please know that I will find a way, no matter what, because my kiddo is my #1 priority. And I don't expect anything at all. I have just created an opportunity for others to participate in what I'm going through. I'll be blessed for anything from a share to kind words, and if you feel like it, help on this, too.

ONLY because of the way you all treat me do I feel safe to do this. I somehow keep growing the absolute best following on this platform, and I'm so so lucky!

I will drop a LlNK in the comments shortly, as not to aggravate the Al-Gore.Rhyth.m. Feel free to message me if you'd like to send a different way.

I love you guys!

LJ
xoxo

EDIT: $1100 down! You guys are amazing. Thank you

Resharing

We all gotta start somewhere ☠️😂 from these basic bitch grocery store cakes, to my masterpiece the other day. Holy Growth 🥹

Tbh, I still use these an awful lot and no one can stop me. It was never a phase mom!

I still use these :3

Anyone else just stand in their kitchen and plan to eat an entire pans worth of oven roasted asparagus straight off the pan for dinner? No? Just me? Weird 😂

And before anyone even gets a chance to say it, YES I KNOW my p*e will look and smell funny tomorrow, LEAVE ME ALONE 😂😂😂

Here she is!!! Orange rhubarb almond cake, orange rhubarb lilac curd, lilac honey buttercream, with a honey drizzle, orange slices, and lilacs for decor! This was hands down THE most labor intensive, expensive, and time consuming cake I’ve ever made, or at least that I’ve made for no good reason, but DAMN IS IT GORGEOUS!

My fear with the curd was a reality. It did not set as thick as I wanted it, but deep down I knew it would happen when I started altering the recipe for it 😅 Didn’t stop me from using it though, it just may have become a sentient being and may be trying to escape (re: images 3 and 4)

Click here to support Donate So Wes Can Transform The Bar organized by Tracey Dages Fouse We all know and love Wes and really want to help him with funds to transform his bar that we all love. He has lots of ideas but needs the money to make his visions come to life. All proceeds will go to him. Help us help him! Please did not tell him we would like to surprise him with this.