It was my brother’s birthday last week, and I wanted to make a special treat for him and his fam. This doesn’t take any special brainstorming because they all absolutely love Lemon Meringue Pie. I wanted to put a bit of a twist on it though, and decided to make a cupcake version. I briefly......
I wanted to make my new co-workers a St. Patrick’s Day treat, and I knew right away that I would make these cupcakes. There are already a couple iterations of this Guiness chocolate cake with Baileys frosting in the archives; the first was a simple one layer cake, and the second was a super-hydrated bundt......
I usually spend February in hibernation mode baking Valentine’s treats, but things didn’t go according to plan this year. Your girl had her gallbladder removed unexpectedly at the beginning of the month! I wasn’t eating much while I recovered, and was sticking to a pretty bland diet of high fibre/low fat foods, but as I......
We had a big fundraising event at work last week, and the following day, an email went out about some leftover items for sale. I wasn’t really interested until I saw the last line: LEMONS AND LIMES FREE TO A GOOD HOME. I remembered this Lemon Lemon Loaf was on our agenda for today, and......
I can’t even believe I’ve been keeping up this little blog for nine years! So much has changed in food blogging since 2010, and with the uprising of social media, blogs have definitely taken a backseat. Even though I also like sharing pictures of my finished cakes on Instagram, and occasionally sharing the process of......
You will never, ever catch me eating an Oatmeal Raisin Cookie. I’m not against raisins per se; they have their rightful place in the bottom of butter tarts and these Carrot Cake Breakfast Cookies I’ve been making lately. But for whatever reason, I just will not tolerate them in an Oatmeal Cookie. The Baked Boys......
This January was pretty low-key, as evidenced by the only foodie-related picture I could find on my phone this month (Bulk Barn is now selling Sweetapolita sprinkles in bulk!). As a result, I will mostly be filing a report of recipes I cooked at home this month that I really liked: I’ve made this Broccoli......
Does this cake look familiar? My niece’s request for her birthday cake this year was awfully similar to last year, with one exception: WINGS. Did you know a Unicorn with wings was called an Alicorn? I sure didn’t, and when I asked “Isn’t that a Pegasus?” I was swiftly corrected: “No Auntie Robyn, a Pegasus......
As I’ve written many times before on Planet Byn, January is the saddest month for a baker. No one is interested in eating treats, and that’s proven true at my new job as well. The formerly well-stocked Snack Station (an empty desk in the middle of the area we work) is now a barren wasteland......
This month was jammed packed with lots of different holiday activities at work, plus the usual Champagne & Cookies prep! Here’s what was going on: Our foundation-wide holiday party this year was at Assembly Chef’s Hall which was such a great venue for a Christmas party! This place is like a very fancy, hip food court, with a......