In light of recent events involving the magazine, I am loath to quote Rolling Stone. And yet, for my purposes, the words of reviewer Rob Sheffield sum up quite succinctly what occurred this time last year, in December of 2013: Beyoncé has delivered countless surprises in her 15 years on top of the music world, but she's never dropped a bombshell like this. The Queen Bey woke the world in the midnight hour…

Welcome to Crush Cakes. When you sit around breathlessly swooning over your crushes nonstop like me, well. We are worldly people here, you know what happens next. I make cakes expressing my feelings for them, and then sit back and wait for my destiny to be fulfilled. It all makes perfect sense. The interesting thing about making a cake demonstrating my crush on Beyoncé is that I’m both intimidated by the prospects – it’s Beyoncé, it…