I almost bailed on this week’s recipe as it’s well known around this blog that I don’t like citrus desserts, especially those that are tart and creamy at the same time. But I’ve committed to making the last 10 recipes on our Baked Sunday Mornings schedule, so here we are! My other motivating factor was......

Does this picture immediately stir up nostalgic feelings from your youth? Can you smell the Worcestershire sauce and garlic powder? Do you remember trying to hide bags of it from your brothers? No? Just me? When I was a kid, this snack mix – known in our house as Bits & Bites, Nuts & Bolts......

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: January is the saddest month for a baker. No one is interested in eating treats so it’s a quiet month for baking, plus my winter hibernation tendencies start to kick in. Here are a few noteworthy things that happened: Every year my friend Krishna hosts a......

Well, it couldn’t all be smooth sailing as we made it to the end of our Baked journey. This week’s recipe for Coconut Snowball Cupcakes was kind of a bust for me. I decided to tackle the Baked boys’ notoriously fussy cooked frosting one last time, even though it hasn’t worked for me in the......

Happy New Year, bakers! After a pretty busy Fall and holiday season, I was excited to check the Baked Sunday Mornings schedule and get back into it. To my surprise, there are only 10 recipes left! I’m going to try my best to make each of them and bring this epic, 10 year journey to......

This December flew by in a haze of work presentations, holiday parties, volunteering and wrapping gifts. Here’s how 2019 finished up for me: Nicole took me to an event at the Hot Docs Cinema to see one of her culinary obsessions, Alison Roman. I’m not quite sure how I didn’t know about her before this,......

This year was the TENTH Champagne & Cookies Party! I can’t believe I’ve been hosting this celebration since 2010! In a special twist this year, I relinquished cookie selection to five of my friends who’ve been around since the very first C&C. I asked them to choose their favourite treat from parties past, I picked......

In some ways, it feels like just yesterday that Lydia and I were frolicking through Manhattan at Christmastime. It’s actually been five years though, which means it was time for us to go back! Based on recommendations from my friend Nicole, a running list on my Notes app, and inspiration from Deb‘s Instagram stories, these......

November went by in a blur after getting back from a weekend trip to New York (more on that coming soon) to start it off. Here are a couple special things worth mentioning: Krishna organized a little birthday drinks night for me and Weedy at a couple of new-ish places.  First up was Mascot, which......

Well, look, I definitely went overboard with my apple picking this year. I brought home a gigantic bag of Honeycrisps, but that’s not the problem, because I ate them all in no time. The true problem was the Northern Spys, which are a great apple for baking but are way too tart to eat out......