Baker's Dozen: A Batch of Sweet Links

The Starbucks Effect: interesting to see the effect of Starbucks canceling a contract with a commercial bakery.

...and another account, different bakery, similar story.

Jubilee! Cherries Jubilee from Whipped the Blog.

Sweet history: Many interesting stories about sweets in History on a Plate by Eric Stanway

Why I bake my own birthday cake: a sweet recipe and essay on The Kitchn.

Dessert Wontons? I can dig it.

Watch your cupcake! TSA Cupcake Crackdown.

Slow but steady: Turtle Cake worth waiting for.

Whoopie! Whoopie pies find a sweet spot in Arizona.

Bread with chocolate and olive oil. Yum!

OMG! Sparkly rainbow Unicorn Poop cookies. Funny!

Bakery I wanna visit: Oh So Sweet Sugar Boutique in Surrey, BC

Interesting: The importance of Salt in sweets.

Trompe l'oeil cakes for the ages - thanks to Maggie of Serious Eats for sharing!

Comments

[Maureen]

Okay, I slowly perused the links until I saw unicorn poop cookies. I whipped the old eyeballs back to the beginning of the line just to be sure I read that right. Yep, unicorn poop cookies. Yes, I clicked to see them.

"The amount of cookies depends upon how large your unicorn is."

Obviously I cook in the wrong kitchen. Thanks for the laugh.

[sugarninja]

Their are so many cool recipes in the 30 finalist recipes,I really love the s'moretrooper uploaded by Jenn F. I wonder how she got all the detail on the stormtrooper's mask.

[Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar]

Dear lawd! Sooo many yummy links! Sad to hear about what Starbucks can do too :(