Today I have a guest post (a guest recipe post! yum!) from my friend and this month’s featured sponsor Margarita from Adventures of a Fab Brunette. I met Margarita & her daughter two years ago in Vancouver and we had such a great time together! She’s a total sweetheart who makes a mean cupcake and I [...]
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I love cinnamon buns. I lurve cinnamon buns. I’ve just had a hard time with them when it comes to, you know, making them. As an amateur baker I have a healthy respect/fear for breads. I know that it’s just basic chemistry and that it’s been around since before trains, electricity, and iPhones. Intellectually I know it’s [...]
Salted Caramel Hot Chocolates are one of my favourite treats in the fall- the taste of the chocolate is made a hundred times tastier with a little dash of salt. That being said, my favourite part of salted caramel hot chocolates… are the salted caramel tops! So I wanted to let you in on the [...]
One of the constants in my life is, definitively, that baking is wonderful. I can carb load like nobody’s business, and I have a mean sweet tooth. So what could make baked goods better? 1. Seasonal baking – because seasonal means it’s only around for a little while, which is a free pass to enjoy more [...]
When I was little, my mom would always put on a fresh pot of tea when I got home from school. Since then tea has been one of my favourite treats, and with fall weather getting closer I’ve been making a daily ritual of brewing tea in the afternoons. Buying loose tea is an old [...]
Lately I’ve been trying to snack smart while I’m working (to avoid those sugar crashes I mentioned yesterday!) and in the middle of summer without central air conditioning I’ve been finding it hard to grab anything other than fruit or a granola bar. I started looking into no bake and vegan recipes to see if [...]
I’ve been wanting to learn how to make more new savoury vegetarian foods, and I’ve started with a challenge to myself to make two new recipes each week. So far it’s been working out really well, and it has been a great reason to get home from the studio on time – which is a skill that [...]
