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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. …
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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 …
Easter is coming up, and I've recently been snacking on a lot of Cadbury's mini eggs, and if you've never heard of those, it's milk chocolate in the shape of a mini egg, and coated in a candy coating. I've decided I want to make a little egg nest for a topper on my cupcakes, …
Hello beautiful people! Some of you may know that I do cake orders and make custom cakes for people in the area, so even though I mostly have free reign over my cake designs, I still have to follow a theme. Every once in a while, I make a cake all for myself and I …
So my last recipe (Matcha Almond Joy (Coconut Macaroon Recipe)) has matcha in it, and this weeks recipe/tutorial is also very full of matcha! What can I say? I am obsessed with, and LOVE the taste of matcha. Matcha and coconut are a wonderful pairing, but matcha and pistachio is basically a match(a) made in …
Hello friends! I haven't been posting recently since I've been doing a lot less recipe development, and a whole lot more cake designing, so I thought I'd write a post about my whole process behind designing a cake. Everything starts with an idea, of course. Usually my client will come to me with a few …
This buttercream cake is made with layers of luscious lemon cake, sweet raspberry buttercream, and covered in gold drips. Pretty and delicious!
After seeing "birthday cake" everywhere, and being really confused about how "birthday cake" could be a smell or flavour of its own, I did some research. Turns out, birthday cake is just vanilla cake with sprinkles! The birthday cake flavour is really just the strong and familiar scent of artificial vanilla flavouring. I've been getting …
It is almost Canada Day, which closely follows the Fourth of July, so I decided to make cupcakes to celebrate both occasions using super simple piping techniques, and three different piping tips. These cupcakes are super cute, yet slightly abstract, but soooooo easy to make.
It's summer time fun time!! The best way to spend summer is to hang by the beach and soak up some rays, am I right?! Welllll.... I don't usually get to hang by the beach, so instead, I'm making a beach-inspired cake (which might even be better than hanging by the beach, in my opinion). …
