Happy holidays! The past two weeks have been a little crazy…in a good way! It all started a few months ago when I attended the Etsy road show. I was inspired by all the DIYs and really wanted to start a side business of my own DIY of baked goods. My friends suggested I could … [See recipe…]
My pantry is getting a little crazy with the amount of cupcake liners I’ve been purchasing. I can’t help myself, cupcake liners, why do you have to be so cute? So last weekend, I rearranged my pantry and threw out some expired stuff to make more room for more cupcake liners necessary baking ingredients. 🙂 During pantry clean … [See recipe…]
This past summer a few girlfriends and I finally experienced high tea at the Ritz Carlton. We’ve been planning to go since winter but we’ve decided it would be nicer to drink tea in summer dresses instead of baggy sweaters. It was a lovely afternoon of drinking fancy tea and sampling dainty finger foods. Do not … [See recipe…]
About five years ago I made Coffee Crisp cupcakes with our post Halloween candy haul. Between then and now, we haven’t been very successful with our candy haul, either because we went too late or didn’t have time to go. This year though, maybe we went a little overboard. We got bags of Kit Kat, Coffee … [See recipe…]
Last weekend I went back to Ottawa to celebrate my Dad’s birthday. In the past, I didn’t often go back for my Dad’s birthday due to various reasons such as school or work assignments. Because my Dad is super understanding he forgave me for those missed birthdays. This year his birthday fell on a weekend … [See recipe…]
Last week I was in the mood to reminisce so I looked through my old baking photos, the ones I took before I started blogging in 2010. I love looking through old photos, it helps you remember the little things you often forget – like this amazing cookie dough cheesecake I made in 2009. I wish I started … [See recipe…]
This is the chocolate chip cookie recipe I’ve been searching for. I am so happy I have found you but I am so sad it took this long. According to many bloggers, when this recipe came out in 2008, it took the “blogging world by storm”. What was I doing?! To be honest, I wasn’t planning … [See recipe…]
Is it too late to jump on the bacon chocolate hype train? The first time I experienced this sinful combination was at a food truck festival down at Toronto’s Distillery district a few years ago. There, I had a maple bacon donut from the restaurant Beast. It was pretty delicious for a donut even for a non-bacon lover … [See recipe…]