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.
Is this something straight out of Willy Wonka? I often feel like the magic of decoration and pastry is what drew me into this whole profession. I feel like baking and pastry puts you in a position where you never stop learning, and when I get to try out new techniques, I feel like a …
Bonjour mes amis! Hello my friends! I've been finding myself going through so many changes in my life, which started out with job hunting, getting interviewed at multiple places, and then turning down job offers because everything changed and I've decided to move! So many things have happened in such a short amount of time …
Last weekend I made a last minute decision to go to Toronto’s Festival of Beer with my best friends and my fiancé. It turned out to be a great day spent indulging in beer, wine, tacos, oysters, and poutine, and performances by Ja Rule and Ashanti at the end of the night which threw me …
Continue reading 3 Healthy Breakfast Recipes for When You’ve Been Drinkin’
Every time I end up at Yonge & Dundas square in downtown Toronto, I always gravitate down Dundas to the Uncle Tetsu shops -- famous for their Japanese style cheesecakes, madeleines, and different flavoured cheesetarts. I always end up buying a box of cheesetarts with the assorted flavours of original, matcha, and chocolate -- six …
Continue reading Matcha Cheesetart Recipe (Inspired by Uncle Tetsu)
I recently posted a video tutorial and recipe on how to make edible/safe-to-eat cookie dough, and since I had a jar from DoughTO (a cookie dough pop-up shop in Toronto), and my own jar of homemade cookie dough to compare, I was starting to worry that I'd never finish the cookie dough on my own. …
Continue reading Vamping Up Vanilla Cake (Cookie Dough Cake Recipe)
Do you ever get a random craving for cookie dough? I always did as a child and I sometimes still do, to this day. As a kid, I always made my own cookie dough from scratch, and I would taste it before baking them off, stopping myself after a few bites since my mother said …
I recently did a fun little Q&A on my instagram story, telling people to ask me any kind of questions they had about Cedrik (my fiancé) and I. Someone asked if we could make video where Cedrik bakes and I tell him what to bake, and it actually turned out to be quite the challenge, …
It has been a while since I've written a blog post, and it’s because I’ve been working on a new series called Baking Basics, where I break down some super crucial, yet often overlooked tips when it comes to baking. The first five episodes are all about baking the perfect cake, and the sixth episode …
I’ve come to realize the simpler things in life, are often the most awe-inspiring. Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with “painted” cakes -- using coloured buttercream, and smearing it on to the cake as if it’s a canvas. I keep finding inspiration in flowers, and this time I stumbled upon a tin of culinary …
Hello everyone! I had the pleasure of making a mango cheesecake for my friend over the Easter weekend and naturally, I'd love to share the recipe with all of you. I've also been working on new video formats with my boyfriend (who also edits most of my videos), and we've decided to go a whole …
