Lori's Kitchen

05/28/2026

So one of my awesome neighbors contacted me and asked for a small cake for her grandson's 1/2 birthday. She sent me the picture of the topper she got from Amazon and I went from there. If I'm lucky she'll start following my page and add a picture with the topper on it 🤞🏻I love how it turned out!! But what do you guys think?

05/19/2026

Here's round 3!!! I NEED TASTE TESTERS!!! Please help... I'm trying to perfect my red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting and my household is getting tired of red velvet 😂 so please help them out and besides I need truly HONEST opinions...

05/19/2026

Did you know there are different types of cocoa powder?? Check out the color differences!! The first red velvet was made with the Ghirardelli dutch process and the second one was made with the Ghirardelli regular unsweetened and today's was made with the Guittard cocoa rouge red dutch process... I don't have pictures of the batter for the first one but do for the last two.

05/16/2026

Ok everyone, I have finally reached 100 followers!!! (Technically 101) And need your help... So to celebrate my 100 followers, I am giving away free slices of red velvet cake to anyone local who wants to be a taste tester for me and let me know how I did with this one. (While supplies last and I may make a another cake)

05/14/2026

Well here is a attempt number two at Red Velvet and it is absolutely completely different experience and 100% different cake! It is still dense like a red velvet cake is supposed to be but much more moist and fluffy than any I have seen come from a bakery. I am going to have to come up with a heat resistant cream cheese frosting because I couldn't even frost it in my own house without it starting to melt before getting a third way around the second row of roses on the sides level alone anything on top but I have plenty of ideas on how to deal with that… For those wanting to know why the answer is because number one I don't like eating cold cake and number two the cake will be assembled, frosted and served in Arizona in August where it's not exactly cold.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments… If you have any ideas please feel free to share them whether publicly or by sending me a private message. I am always open to new ideas and techniques! 

(I don't need ideas and techniques on how to leave a cleaner board or be cleaner with my decorations as I knew this was never leaving my house and is feeding family so I wasn't too concerned with how it looks… 

04/20/2026

04/20/2026

Trying to get my red velvet cake recipe and cream cheese frosting perfected before August... First attempt from scratch in probably 20 years as it's not my favorite cake flavor. Pretty sure the frosting is perfect ad I use it for other things but we'll have to wait until tomorrow to see how the cake turned out.

04/08/2026

Something a little different today... Chocolate Eclair Cake with cream puff pastry, vanilla cream cheese pudding, whipped cream and chocolate syrup 😘 This is one of my mom's favorites and while not the version that Mr Todd grew up with, he definitely wasn't complaining 🤣 I will take another picture tomorrow after it sets up more 😊

04/06/2026

Well I did something different in Lori's Kitchen today... I decided to try making my dogs their own homemade food!! I made enough for 3 meals for 3 large dogs (55-75+lbs) and thanks to having some of the stuff already in my fridge or freezer this all cost me $5 or less.