Bakers Against Racism activated once again in April, to stand against Asian Hate in light of recent hate crimes against the AAPI community. I knew I wanted to participate right away, and launched a Spring Treat Box with all proceeds going to the Chinese Canadian Council for Social Justice. I also matched all treat box......
Of all the baking I’ve done with rhubarb over the years, one of the things I’ve never paired it with is chocolate, and I wasn’t about to start now. I just don’t feel like that’s a good match AT ALL, which is why I swapped out the brownie layer of these squares for a blondie.......
As I mentioned the other day, the most anticipated item from my Trader Joe’s haul was Cookie Butter. Everything I heard and read about it had me super excited and curious about the magic that would be unleashed when I cracked open a jar. First, let me try my best to describe Cookie Butter: it......
This week’s Gastropost mission (it’s been a minute since I’ve participated) was like a shock to my system: apples! APPLES! How did I go through all of September without making anything with them? I’m a huge, huge apple snob, and I’m sure you’re not surprised. I don’t buy them in the off season, because I......
When we last left off, I was on the cusp of blondie greatness, but had to stop baking as the Throwdown was quickly approaching. Erin arrived with her submission – Milk Chocolate Nougat Blondies – and I admitted right away they were way cuter than any of my batches. Her original recipe called for a drizzle of......
Okay, this is going to be a long one, so you just have to stick with me here. I promise the end result is the quickest, easiest, one-bowl treat yet to appear on Planet Byn, so you have to just power through. Last week, my former co-worker and friend Erin was e-mailing me about some......
It was Nicole’s 30th birthday a couple weeks ago, and her boyfriend threw her a surprise party at a lawn bowling club. Since I don’t do sports, and I also don’t own any white articles of clothing (the lawn bowling attire of choice), I didn’t know how this whole thing was going to work out......