Teaching you how to make baked goods into delicious art every week. Join me for unique recipes, some goofs and fails, and crazy cake decorating techniques.
I have been seeing mochi brownies all over the internet. Usually the recipe consists of homemade mochi and a premade brownie mix, so when I was developing this recipe, I had originally planned to do a mochi brownie similar to my "best brownie you'll ever eat" brownie recipe. However, that all changed when I opened …
I was first introduced to collagen in 2018 when I first started working at the plant-based healthy food cafe downtown Toronto. Being the baker that I was, I was almost convinced that it was the same as gelatin because of its texture and odor when sprinkled into liquid. I soon learned, it was not the …
Watermelon is the fruit of the summer. You cannot go to one picnic or family gathering and not find a big bowl of this juicy fruit. Another fruit that is nice and ripe in the summer is lychee (pronunciation: lee-chee or lie-chee? I always said lie-chee growing up, but always heard lee-chee outside of my …
Everyone knows that summer is the time of sunshine warm weather. What coincides with this beautiful time is berry season. It's the best time to go strawberry picking and raspberry picking -- when the fruit is sweet and ripe, and super delicious. This year I caught some inspiration from Pastry Freak by Ludo, a youtube …
If you're familiar with Filipino culture, then you know that pandesal is a common sweet and fluffy bread roll from the Philippines. It's similar to a milk bun and delicious with everything from peanut butter, to cheese, to chicken salad sandwiches. Ever since I decided to recipe test and make this, my family has been …
If you know me, you know I've been making cakes professionally for about six years now, but I began practicing at the young age of 15. I've loved cakes and cake decoration my whole life, making it natural that I start a home cakery for custom cakes. When the pandemic first hit, I declined orders …
When I was in baking school I was pretty unfamiliar with 75% of breads that I was churning out in class, day after day. One of those breads was focaccia. I soon learned that focaccia is a large flat loaf that has a crisp top and chewy texture. It's full of garlic, herbs, and smothered …
Continue reading How to Make Focaccia — A Bread Everyone Should Try to Make
I make strawberry shortcake every. single. year. It is my go-to summer cake because it is so amazingly simple and delicious. I wanted to try and change it up this year and create a strawberry shortcake that was slightly different from all of my previous years, while still keeping the beautiful simplicity of it. So …
I grew up eating pandesal -- a soft and pillowy sweet bun. It is great with everything from cheese to peanut butter, or even on it's own. I've been wanting to attempt to make pandesal for a long time, but I've always felt intimidated by Filipino recipes. I went to school for baking here in …
Continue reading Ube Cheese Pandesal Recipe (Filipino Purple Yam Cheese Bun)
Are you spending your days Netflixing by yourself/with family? Have you easily consumed all your snacks and all the best TV shows in the past few months because of this whole pandemic? I can safely say I have, and I was feeling determined to upgrade my snacks to a whole new level, and came up …
Continue reading Four Ways to Make Microwave Popcorn Gourmet
