We had a Pride Bake Sale at work this week, and the group running it asked a few known bakers around the office if they wanted to help out. Obviously I said yes, and immediately got to work brainstorming which treats I wanted to make. I haven’t been baking a lot this year, so similar......
May is Asian Heritage Month, and as part of our celebrations at work, one of our employee resource groups organized a potluck. We were supposed to bring something that represented our own heritage, but I waffled on what to bring. I was originally going to bake some Banana Muffins, because they remind me of my......
Last year, I made my best bud Max a Guinness Chocolate Cake with Bailey’s Buttercream for his birthday, and decorated it with Lucky Charms. He loved it, and told me how when he was growing up in Ireland he would beg his mom to buy Lucky Charms, but they were ridiculously expensive. I filed that......
For reasons that can’t be explained, every time I’ve gone to Trader Joe’s/Target since the borders re-opened in 2022, I’ve added MULTIPLE bags of freeze-dried fruit to my cart. I have no idea why I keep doing this and it needs to stop. I used one bag last summer to make these Neapolitan Cookies, and......
I’ve been lusting after these cookies ever since Sally posted them last summer. I just needed a good excuse to make them, and that came in the form of my friend Jen’s birthday party this month. She loves chocolate and peanut butter so I knew they’d be perfect. I’ve tried a few recipes like this......
The first time people see these cookies (me included), the first question is: how’d you get the heart in there? I’ve never clicked on anything so fast when Deb posted them last February, and slowly a light went on in my brain when I saw how the whole thing worked. I saved them for this......
I went on a bit of a baking bender this past weekend, making a bunch of things for my friend Weedy and their family. Since I didn’t really do much baking in December, I had such a fun time settling back into my kitchen, pulling out all my ingredients and mixing up a storm. I......
Smitten Kitchen has a new cookbook out, and I’ve been counting down the days to both its delivery AND Deb’s book tour stop in Toronto. It’s now tradition! You can read about her first book tour in 2012 here, and her second tour in 2017 here. This time Kristine came with me, as well as......
Like I mentioned in my October recap, for some reason I had a vision of a Halloween cookie platter stuck in my head for the whole month. I made it a reality, and brought everything to work for some happy sugar rushes (and crashes). The first two cookies were some of my faves “Halloween-ized” –......
When Roe v. Wade was overturned in the US earlier this summer, Bakers Against Racism activated once again to raise money to protect reproductive rights. I knew right away I wanted to participate, because while abortion is legal in Canada, there are so many barriers in place that prevent equitable access. I wanted to raise......