After many failures and a few triumphs with frostings and fillings, I finally received an A+ in Marshmallows 101 this summer. Because I was wrapped up with summer fruit and other s’mores concoctions, they never actually made it on the blog, but I was pretty excited to have achieved this milestone. Homemade marshmallows have been......
It’s birthday treat week on Planet Byn! Technically my birthday was last week, but the treats actually started on Thanksgiving. Sometimes I like to make myself a birthday cake for our Thanksgiving dessert, especially now that all my nieces and nephews like to sing the birthday song, blow out the candles, and stick their fingers......
The theme for our Gastropost Mission this week was FEAST which was timed to coincide with Thanksgiving weekend. This couldn’t be more perfect for me, as my Mom’s turkey dinner is my #1 favourite feast and my desert island/death row meal. I LOVE IT. It always includes the following: turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, and......
I actually cracked open my first can of pumpkin of the season a few weeks ago, and you can see what happened over on the Joy the Baker project page: Pumpkin Pecan Loaf & Pumpkin Black & White Cookies. Both yummy. I think this is my third or fourth pumpkin baking season; I wasn’t really......
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......
Just because it’s fall, it doesn’t mean I have s’mores fully out of my system. Although I’m not quite sure my s’mores fixation ever really goes away in the winter, I think it just transfers over to mug formation (i.e. hot chocolate and marshmallows!). I also realized as I was writing this that I totally......
Watching the Emmys in a hotel room, alone, on a work trip, with gross room service is just no way to live. That was my reality last year, and it was just so sad. Thank goodness I was home this year, with my amigas, and many delicious snacks. There’s no better way to watch......
So I finally joined Pinterest after rolling my eyes about it for the last year or so. I was adamant that I didn’t need another time suck in my life, but then I came to the realization that it would actually help me organize all of the recipes I have bookmarked at home, at work, jotted on......
This is my friend Kristine’s (insert significant number here) birthday cake. I think my feelings about birthday cakes would be best expressed by a recent quote from Deb: “I delight in trying to find a layered summary of everyone’s favorite things that fits in a cake carrier.” No doubt. For K, this means trying to transfer......
My baking soul sister and I have reached the halfway point in our mission to bake the entire Joy the Baker Cookbook. You can see photos of everything we’ve made over on our project page, but here’s the recap of Q2. 50 recipes down, 50 to go! Recipes Baked Total – 25 (Danielle – 11......