Author: Leo Suarez

We’d been following this bakery, Paul and Jack, for a few months as part of the Lemon Cake Challenge and finally we made the detour up to Wake Forest to check them out. Side note, their Instagram looks delicious. Tucked in a small shopping center, the looks were ok but that doesn’t matter much as…

We guessed we might do the chocolate strawberries for Valentine’s Day but we never made that happen. When we were in charge of dessert for a family dinner, we thought this would be a great thing to share with everyone. We picked up a dozen strawberries, half with milk chocolate and the other with dark…

Back at home, we were having a very productive Saturday (Spring cleaning) and after a few errands, we decided to make a stop and get something off the Lemon Cake list. We ended up at the Videri Chocolate Factory in downtown Raleigh for some of their delicious soft serve ice cream. We had two waffle…

Continuing with our Washington DC trip, and checking off a Lemon Cake list item earlier in the trip, we were having dinner in the Shaw Neighborhood. We were looking for dessert and came across Unconventional Diner which had a few pies on the menu. The Lemon Meringue jumped out at us. Done and done. It…

In late March, we had a trip planned to Washington DC for Rory’s spring break. We rode the train from Raleigh to DC’s Union Station and had a bunch of plans to explore the area in and around the national mall. One evening, we spent time by the Anacostia River near the Navy Yards. We…

During the weekend, we were reminded that our daughter was denied, twice, this past Fall to have a candy apple. Both would have been at special events so it, of course, turned into a “thing”. Well with a candy apple on the Lemon Cake list, it was time for retribution. We stumbled on Kandy Apples…