Cookies and Chocolate Fudge Cake with Stacie Suedkamp of Fig Tales

ByStaci October 27, 2023October 27, 2023 October 27, 2023 Cake and cupcakes, Sweets

slice of chocolate fudge cake on a plate

I messed up the consistency of Mrs. Chandler’s frosting. However, this is real life. And because it tastes great and I’m on deadline, I’m sharing a photo of my chocolate fudge cake that looks like a classroom of runny-nosed 2-year-olds frosted it.

It doesn’t change the sheer awesomeness and radiance of this week’s podcast guest, Stacie Suedkamp, owner, artist, and cookie engineer behind Fig Tales. You can watch her KELOLAND Living segments, but today she’s talking about a lot more than cookies.

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You’ll hear all about the interesting jobs she’s had and what she sold to help pay for college, to her time owning the Bean & Vine coffee shop in Flandreau to finally starting her dream gourmet cookie business, Fig Tales.

She teaches and entertains during her cookie classes, bakes cookies for special occasions like birthday parties, weddings, hockey tournaments and funerals (yes, funerals), fills corporate orders, and she’s even made cookies for the Sanford International PGA Tour.

And it wouldn’t be Stacie without a sprinkling of her family and faith.

Cookie Tips

Stacie shares expert sugar cookie making tips like her reason for not crowding the cookie sheets, why to make space for the sheet in your refrigerator, and when and how she chills her dough. She also reveals that she doesn’t roll her cookies out in flour, instead she rolls it between a sheet of freezer paper.

Mrs. Chandler’s Chocolate Fudge Cake

In this episode, Stacie shares a fun story about her seventh-grade science teacher, Mrs. Chandler, and her coveted chocolate fudge Bundt cake. Everyone wanted to win it at a fundraising auction in Pierre, South Dakota.

You may or may not know how I feel about nuts in my cake. I skipped them. But, this cake is divinely moist and although I didn’t get the frosting quite the right consistency, it is delicious. I think I just took too long pouring it over the cake and then I started to spread it. Just drizzle and walk away and you’ll be fine.

Chocolate Fudge Cake Cupcakes

Mrs. Chandler’s chocolate fudge cake recipe reminds me of the chocolate cake with fudge frosting recipe that my friend Michelle shared with me a few years ago.

It doesn’t use a box cake mix but it’s similar. Michelle’s recipe uses powdered sugar in the frosting and Mrs. Chandler’s uses sugar.