The Iris Cottage Cakery

06/16/2026

06/13/2026

This cake was so fun to make for a true Norwegian! It’s vanilla cake with lemon curd filling and ermine buttercream. Happy 70th birthday, John!

06/09/2026

To honor my grandma, who inspired my love of baking!

Baking Powder Biscuits
Recipe by Joan Yakopatz

My grandma was the best cook in the world, and you can fight me if you don’t think so! She didn’t start out that way though. When she was first married, she once served her biscuits under done, and the doughy centers could be stretched across the table. I’m sure she was embarrassed by this misstep in the kitchen, but she soon perfected her recipes, using a pinch of this and a touch of that. When compelled to write down her biscuit recipe, this is what she wrote:

2 C. Flour
4 tsp. Baking Powder
1 tsp. Salt
1/3 C. Shortening
1 C. Milk

Sift together dry ingredients.
Cut in shortening.
Add milk and blend.
Knead about 30 seconds.
Pat out to 1” thick.
Cut with biscuit cutter.
Grease pan with bacon grease.
Let biscuits touch each other.
12 minutes 375° or golden brown.

If you use a 2” biscuit cutter you get about a dozen simple but delicious biscuits, ready for jam and butter, or your favorite sausage gravy!

05/31/2026

Traditional vanilla cake with homemade raspberry jam filling and decadent Swiss meringue buttercream. Yum!

05/31/2026

Fluffy marble cake homemade strawberry jam filling and cream cheese frosting. 🌻

05/10/2026

This cake was so fun to make! Who doesn’t love chickens!? 🐓🐓🐓 It’s made from confetti layered cake with Nutella filling and almond buttercream.

05/10/2026

White cake with whipped cream frosting in fun ombré shades of orange butterflies!

05/10/2026

Rich chocolate layered cake with fun green buttercream and fondant details.

05/10/2026

Our version of strawberry shortcake: fluffy white cake with whipped cream frosting and lots of yummy fresh strawberries! 🍓

04/27/2026

Marble cake and marble vanilla bean buttercream! Such a bright beautiful wedding!